Assignment title: Information
49004 Systems Engineering for Managers
Assessment Item 2-- Assignment 2.
Aims:
This assignment aims to give you an opportunity to:
Identify, interpret and analyse stakeholder needs
Research and consider an issue of reasonable complexity, but one with which you
may be familiar, using the concepts of requirement engineering and Functional
Analysis
Apply tools and techniques considered in class to capture your thoughts and ideas
on the topic researched.
Introduction and Requirements:
One of the issues that a smart city will need to deal with is waste management. You have
just completed a group assignment dealing with smart cities. You may use any references
from that assignment to help you with this one, so long as you acknowledge your
references.
Identify the functions that a waste management system (WMS) in a smart city would need
to accomplish. Consider this from the points of view of the key stakeholders involved e.g.
the citizens, the government, the waste management workers, possible environmental
groups, and so on. Perform a decomposition of these functions into lower level ones, and as
you do so identify the functional interfaces that may exist between them.
Having identified these functions provide the following:
1. A context diagram which depicts the WMS in the context of smart cities.
2. A Functional Hierarchy Diagram for the WMS, using your decomposition down to
three levels beginning with level 0.
3. A Functional Flow Block Diagram illustrating at least one of the functional threads of
the system.
4. An N2 diagram illustrating the interfaces between the functions of the system.
5. Comment on the efficacy of considering this problem in isolation of the other
aspects of smart citiesNotes:
What we will be looking for in your responses is your application of requirements
engineering and functional analysis and of some of the tools of systems thinking.
Ensure that all your sources of information are properly acknowledged – via in-text
referencing and through a reference list. Your references should belong to scholarly
literature and/ or be articles reported in the daily media. See the subject outline for
more information on referencing. The library provides very useful guidance online.
You are reminded of the UTS policy on plagiarism. Ensure that the format and
referencing in your response is in accordance with the guidelines contained in the
Subject Outline, and any specific directions herein.
Marks will be deducted for incorrect spelling and grammar.
First Name, Last Name and Student ID to be entered either as a header/ footer on
each page.
No Assignments will be accepted through email.
Marks will be deducted for late submissions.
Length:
A maximum of 4 A4 size, single sided, pages, not including diagrams and tables.
No appendices are allowed. Format must be as advised in the Subject Outline.
Due: See the Subject Outline
Submission:
All Modes: Follow the instructions given in the Subject Outline. Submit a softcopy without
any cover sheet to Turnitin via UTSOnline links.
Standard Mode: Hard copy in class as indicated via UTSOnline.
Distance Mode Students:
Submit soft copies for marking online using the appropriate links provided.
File Name for Soft Copies: Lastname_Firstname_Student ID