NASA Systems Engineering Handbook

Provides information about systems engineering (SE) that is useful to new NASA systems engineers. Provides generic descriptions of SE as it should be applied throughout NASA. Covers: fundamentals of SE, the project cycle for major NASA systems, mgmt. issue in SE (scheduling, work breakdown structure, risk mgmt., configuration mgmt.), systems analysis and modeling issues, and integrating engineering specialties into the SE process. Also: list of acronyms, SE templates and examples, use of the metric system, and bibliography. Charts and graphs.Shishko, Robert is the author of 'NASA Systems Engineering Handbook', published 1995 under ISBN 9780160618482 and ISBN 0160618487.