ABSTRACT
This case study will challenge the class to apply what they have learned in Seciton 4 (“Aerospace and Defense Systems Engineering”) with a focus on system design. In order to give a better idea of how the various methods and tools work together, as well as to give the reader an opportunity to practice the various methods, a notional air system is provided as an example. The system should satisfy the notional objective of a long-range strike aircraft carrying a dropped payload based on open sources and example data. The reader will use the requirements analysis and House of Quality techniques to better define and understand the problem before using a matrix of alternatives to develop an initial concept. Some of the results of further concept development using surrogate modeling will round out the process. It is important to note that, just as the solution to the customer requirements is not unique, the solutions to the individual steps in the system design process are not unique. Example responses are provided here, based in part on research done for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (Mavris 2004), but there is no single correct answer to the exercises.
