Title:
What devilish detail might kill your grand design? An example of connecting breadth and depth.
Abstract:
At the start of the event, we will briefly look at some devilish details and their consequences. We observe that there is a natural tendency to either zoom in on details, or to zoom out for a helicopter view. We pose that it is the systems engineer’s contribution to connect depth and breadth:
- to help experts to understand the broader context
- to help “helicopter pilots” to see details that must be taken into account.
At the end of the event we will discuss an example from the logistics world, a warehouse, to see how a systems engineer can make such connection.
Biography:
Gerrit Muller, originally from the Netherlands, received his Master’s degree in physics from the University of Amsterdam in 1979. He worked from 1980 until 1997 at Philips Medical Systems as a system architect, followed by two years at ASML as a manager of systems engineering, returning to Philips (Research) in 1999. Since 2003 he has worked as a senior research fellow at the Embedded Systems Institute in Eindhoven, focusing on developing system architecture methods and the education of new system architects, receiving his doctorate in 2004. In January 2008 he became a full professor of systems engineering at Buskerud University College in Kongsberg, Norway.
All information (System Architecture articles, course material, curriculum vitae) can be found at: Gaudà systems architecting http://www.gaudisite.nl/
