Architecture: More than a Floor Plan

This presentation will cover the essentials of systems architecture as a key engineering element of the systems engineering discipline. Specific topics covered that everyone should be knowledgeable of include:

• Physical and Functional Architectures: What they are, how to define and model them, and the critical points to address in developing both.
• Hardware and Software Architectures: How they differ and how they are integrated to be a system
• Interfaces and Integration: What the significant aspects are of physical and functional interfaces and how they affect systems integration including Systems of Systems
• Analyzing Architectures: What analysis techniques are valuable during architecture development to avoid later disasters and to provide early verification and validation of the final product.