Finger Lakes Chapter

Systems Engineering:  the SIMILAR model*

What’s Systems Engineering, you ask?

An approach to solve a big task.

You State and Investigate,

Model and Integrate.

You then pause for a sip from the flask.

 

What else is there left for to do?

Well, you’re more than half-a-way through.

You Launch and Assess,

And Re-’valuate the mess,

And then settle down to redo.

 

It’s not a sequential process.

And it’s not easy, some do protest.

Education you need,

And practice, indeed.

But it’s THE tool to have in your chest.

 

 

 

 

*Thanks to David Gries,

Associate Dean for Undergraduate

Programs

Cornell College of Engineering