Special Topics

This SYS 579 Special Topics course has been approved to become SYS 544 Technical Decision and Risk Analysis in future offerings. This course focuses on structured decision analysis for system design and formal risk and opportunity analysis to manage uncertainty throughout the system lifecycle. Students will learn techniques to conduct a trade study and analysis of alternatives using multiple objectives from varied stakeholder perspectives followed by sensitivity analysis. Students will learn how to identify, analyze, characterize, treat, and monitor risks and opportunities including risk mitigation plans and opportunity capture plans. These concepts will be applied to real-world problems. Learning Outcomes: By the completion of this course, learners will be able to: • Develop a decision tree to decide “what to do” in a decision situation with uncertainty • Develop a decision matrix to decide “which one” in a decision situation with multiple attributes • Apply sensitivity analysis techniques to evaluate the decision models • Build an Enhanced Risk Assessment Matrix to characterize risks and opportunities • Develop treatment plans to mitigate risks and capture opportunities In addition, this course was designed to satisfy the INCOSE awareness level and supervised practitioner level indicators for Risk and Opportunity Management and Decision Management. NOTES: This is the first delivery of SYS 579 Technical Decision and Risk Analysis that has been approved to become SYS 544 in future offerings. This course will be used as a substitution for OIE 542/Risk Management and Decision Making for Systems Engineering students.