6. SYSTEM DESIGN

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This field is largely overlooked, not because it is unimportant, but because most engineers are educated in selected disciplines, and this is an interdisciplinary topic.

Most of the successful uses of this topic have been by computer system designers, electrical engineers, and aerospace designers.

The basic set of problems in any system design are,

- what functions are needed

- how do the modules interact

- what do we do when a module fails

- how reliable is a system

- etc.