Summary
This chapter has introduced the main concepts and terminology associated with systems engineering, which may be thought of as the domain-specific language that will be used throughout this book. This domain-specific language is captured in all of the diagrams in this chapter. It is important to understand this domain-specific language, so these diagrams must be well understood and the following points considered:
- Each diagram is made up of a series of boxes with words in them that are joined together by lines.
- The main concepts for systems engineering are captured in the boxes and the lines between the boxes.
- The terminology for systems engineering is what is written inside the boxes and on the lines.
The relevance of these diagrams will be discussed further in the next chapter, in which models and modeling are introduced.
