SYS 101 Group Project
SYS 101 Group Project
Canyon Ultimate CFR Disc Aero Road Bike
System Information for US Conversion
project management
system of interest definition
requirements documentation
system decomposition
requirements to decomposition matrix
For the Systems Engineering Technology 101 project, we were a team of five. Each of us were required to take the lead on one of our five project deliverables.
As the team leader, I was responsible for the schedule, setting meetings for product reviews with our lead systems engineer (professor), making sure all teammembers were on track and assisting them as needed, ensuring that our deliverables were an integrated package with consistency between products, and creating the powerpoint template for our class presentation.
For our project, we were to take a Tour de France bike, the Canyon Ultimate CFR Disc Aero, and define requirements based on information from the customer, our lead systems engineer, and the US Code for bicycles. As systems engineer modelers, we then looked for gaps and problems between our system decomposition and our requirements. We were given information on the Tour de France version of our bike, background information on the Tour de France, and the relevant US Code information. It was necessary to use outside information to determine some information in our decomposition, and we had to include references to that information.
Our team used a shared Excel spreadsheet with a sheet for each deliverable and extra sheets for references and notes. This easily allowed us to pull requirements for the two matrix products we had to deliver.
My product was the Requirements to Decomposition Matrix. We only had to use Level 2 Decomposition for the matrix. We found that the US Code required various reflectors, and a typical Tour de France bike does not include reflectors since that would add weight. Some of the design choices specified by the customer accounted for this code, but some did not, and we pointed out those gaps in our matrix.
