Course Syllabus

FALL 2005

Engineering Science:  50%
Engineering Design:   50%

First Class:              Monday 29, 2005, 10:10 am, Kingsbury Hall 319

Meeting Times :    One – three hour class Days/Time TBD  Room  TBD

Credits: 4.0

Reading Materials:

Relevant course materials will be assigned according to the specific project selected. 

D. Ferriere, “Using a WEB Board Application to Effectively Interrogate Foreign Commercial Ship Arrivals, Creating the Opportunity for Legitimate Shipping Companies to Distinguish Themselves, and Being Rewarded by Being Given Access to the Green Lane into a U.S. Seaport”, Project Proposal, NI2 CIE, April 13^th, 2005

D. Ferriere, K. Pysareva, and A. Rucinski, “Using Technology to Bridge Maritime Security Gaps”, Proceedings of TEHOSS, Gdansk, Poland, September 2005

D. Ferriere, “The Virtual Sea Border: WEB Interrogation for Enhanced US Port Security” NI2 CIE, PowerPoint presentation

 “Operation Safe Commerce – Canada – US Cargo Security Project”, Technical Proposal, NI2 CIE

 “Experience and Capabilities”, Applied Research Associates, Inc., CD ROM

 Instructors:

Grading System:

Course objectives

i.     Introduce students to system design processes and management techniques.

ii.    Introduce students to selected theoretical topics and existing technology solutions relevant to the course project.

iii.  Expose students to real-life multidisciplinary system engineering project.

iv.   Improve students' written and oral presentation skills.

Prerequisites:

Either senior or graduate standing is required.

Topics covered:

Note: ECE777 satisfies a course requirement in the Computer Engineering Option and the ECE Departmental Design Experience Rule. Other departments TBD.

COURSE PHILOSOPHY AND FORMAT:

The course is an undergraduate multidisciplinary system design course.   The basic purpose of this course is to introduce to the undergraduate students, modern system engineering design and development processes requiring multi-disciplined teamwork. There are three fundamentals determining this process: advanced system design process strategies, engineering management techniques, and collaborative project teams. 

Students will be put into one of three/four multi-disciplined project teams and given a specific system design task.  During the Fall 05 semester, students will be introduced to current industrial project management techniques which they will then incorporate into the design.  It is hoped that the student teams will continue and build their designs during the Spring 06 semester and participate in an on-campus competition in April/May as part of their student project/thesis requirement.

The techniques present and implemented will assist students in working on a collaborative team, managing their project while converging on a successful design on time.  Risk identification and risk mitigation techniques will be presented and incorporated into the process.  Team building techniques, an introduction to ISO9000 based quality process, and project management tools will also be covered during the semester and used for the project. A project budget will be set and costs tracked as the design matures.

 Proper documentation, presentation and communication skills are also a vital part of this course, thereby enhancing a student’s communication and written skills. While it is crucially important that students understand the importance of design process flow standardization, it will also help increase efficiency and effectiveness of their work and help the smooth continuation of work for the projects.

 Lecture Track (Dr. Rucinski)

Course Topics:

Course topics are designed to emulate current “real life” engineering design processes. 

• Project Management and Tracking tools
• Establishing/Understanding Requirements
• Formal Design Reviews – SRR, PDR, CDR, FDR
• Cost Management
• Collaborative Engineering/Team Building – working with other engineering and science students
• Understanding Technology Evolution and Maturation
• Risk Management
• System design using Unified Modeling Language (Kristina)
• Embedded Systems for Security and Safety (MSE 2007)
• JusticeWorks (UNH)
• ISO9000 and TQM
• Engineering Ethics
• Intellectual Property (Bob Dalton)

Textbook:   No textbook is required in this course but instructional materials are either provided in class or students are asked to do literature search.

IEEE Lecture Series on Physical Security Track (Len Long)

There are six days of lectures.  There could be two, one hour segment per day:

COURSE TITLE: Practical Elements of Security

1. Introduction
2. Physical Security Principles
3. Risk Assessment - I
4. Risk Assessment - II
5. Occupant Emergency Procedures
6. Facility Architecture
7. Security Devices - I
8. Policies, procedures, and practices
9. Security Devices - II
10. Security Devices - III
11. System Integration
12. X-Ray Devices

ISO9000 and Intellectual Property Track (Dr. Coppinger)

ISO 9000 is the world’s most accepted and practiced Quality Management System.  Over half a million organizations in over 160 countries worldwide have implemented ISO 9000.  Specific industry standards have been developed in recent years which include AS9100 – Aerospace, TL9000 – Telecommunications, TS16949 – Automotive. The course will aim to introduce the principals of ISO 9000 and the associated standards.  ISO 9000 is practiced widely in real life industry and the course will expose the students to an understanding how this effects organizations which the student may work at in the future.

Project Track (Dale Ferriere):         

Technology Assisted Verification and Validation of Maritime Cargo and Personnel Entry and Admittance

I foresee challenging the students to design a comprehensive cargo and passenger security system.  For instance, design how smart inter-modal container technology should / could work in the future and to include other cargo and passenger transit systems as well e.g., bulk oil, bulk solids, break-bulk, ro-ro's, passengers on ferries / trains / buses.

Specifics (Technology....): (System Specifications)

* having the capability to determine what's inside of a container without opening it,
* having the capability to verify (contrast) what is inside of the container with a digital cargo manifest,
* having the capability to sense / detect for CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear or Explosive),
* having the capability to initiate an alert when tampering / unauthorized entry has occurred,
* having the capability to externally analyze information and data,
* having the capability to detect container cargo anomalies and automatically report these situations to gov't authorities (first responders),
* once anomaly information is received by gov't authorities, their information system having the capability to automatically identify the most appropriate and most available first responder team (either Law Enforcement, HazMat Team or both),
* the appropriate response team's communication system having the capability to link into a shared first responder network, showing them as having received the notification and having been able to initiate a response,                                                                              
* for the network to be able to have a live-feed depicting how the response is proceeding,
* for the appropriate response team to automatically re-call additional response resources if needed,
* for reserve (back-up) response teams to be automatically re-called to fill-in-gaps while the primary response team is underway,

Ship’s Manifest (to be included)

Communication/Notification Protocol Chain (to be included)

Technology integrated with built infrastructure.... (System Design)

for built infrastructure related to over-road transportation to have virtual boundaries established so that when inter-modal traffic approaches a large city if the container-and-cargo hasn't been cleared-verified for entry it sets-off an alert causing the highway system to close and State Police to respond,
* for built infrastructure related to over-water transportation to have virtual boundaries established (by smart buoys, other?) so that when cargo and ship approaches a port if they haven't been cleared-verified for port entry they set off an alert causing U.S. Coast Guard / U.S. Navy Response.
* for built infrastructure related to mass transit systems e.g., buses, subways, ferries, to design a system so that when it addresses personnel and luggage desiring to gain access to the mass transit that prior to their embarkation they are automatically detected for the presence of CBRNE and their movements recorded.

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