Ji Ung Yang's Systems Engineering SYSE 515

  I used to think that systems engineers played a supporting role in dealing with various types of engineering problems, but now I know that systems engineers have one of the most important roles coming up up with solutions and improvements. Over the course of SYSE 515, I studied a wide range of fundamentals of probability, statistics, economics, and physics. Through a number of projects, I learned firsthand how the fields are applied to real-life engineering problems. The risk management section in particular helped me to understand what knowledge and perspectives are needed to solve engineering problems. What I learned in probability included combinatorics, conditional probability and independence, distributions and random variables are part of the fundamental probability toolkit. Now I understand how to use this toolkit in matters for risk management and decision analysis as well as developing reliability block diagrams, fault tree analysis, critical path method, program ev...