Practicum of Systems Integration in Engineering Education

This project asked engineering students to develop a multi-subsystem design that would produce electricity. Students over the duration of this project learned how to simulate and design systems theoretically using computer tools. Furthermore, students were expected to produce a prototype of their model, thereby self-analyzing the practicality levels and enhancing learning. With the technology available to students advancing, systems integration techniques become more efficient learning experiences to the students. The benefits of systems integration can also be expanded to the professional world these students will soon step into. Therefore, teaching these techniques now will give students a better further insight on real world experience in a classroom setting. When students make the expected leap into the job market, it is important for them to have a solid understanding of system integration and multi-system design. It is this understanding that will make students more desirable to top end employers and set them apart form their peers.Cockrell School of Engineerin

Simulator systems integration

The implementation of available wind shear data into general aviation flight training simulators is discussed. Currently, there are 11 simulators with wind shear models installed involving some 9 different aircraft models. Retrofits to other systems that were put out earlier are currently underway, and all the new simulators will have wind shear available for the instructors to use for demonstrations and training. There are three types of computer systems involved, and two different types of instructor stations. Most of the systems with wind shear are the CRT-type displays. The integration of wind shear models in flight simulators is discussed in detail

Systems Integration and Operationalization

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Avionics systems integration technology

A very dramatic and continuing explosion in digital electronics technology has been taking place in the last decade. The prudent and timely application of this technology will provide Army aviation the capability to prevail against a numerically superior enemy threat. The Army and NASA have exploited this technology explosion in the development and application of avionics systems integration technology for new and future aviation systems. A few selected Army avionics integration technology base efforts are discussed. Also discussed is the Avionics Integration Research Laboratory (AIRLAB) that NASA has established at Langley for research into the integration and validation of avionics systems, and evaluation of advanced technology in a total systems context

Viking lander design and systems integration

Malfunction protection requires redundancy planning and mechanization in Viking lander design and systems integration in order to maximize the chance of getting the data back through the Orbiter. Various subsystems are discussed that protect the downlink to man on the ground in the framework of systems integration and insure the basic objectives of Viking: to land on a planet and to acquire data from its surface

Formal ontology for biomedical knowledge systems integration

The central hypothesis of the collaboration between Language and Computing (L&C) and the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (IFOMIS) is that the methodology and conceptual rigor of a philosophically inspired formal ontology will greatly benefit software application ontologies. To this end LinKBase®, L&C’s ontology, which is designed to integrate and reason across various external databases simultaneously, has been submitted to the conceptual demands of IFOMIS’s Basic Formal Ontology (BFO). With this, we aim to move beyond the level of controlled vocabularies to yield an ontology with the ability to support reasoning applications

LEVERAGING SOA IN BANKING SYSTEMS INTEGRATION

There is no doubt that the systems integration is one of the most important and complicated tasks in software filed especially for complex applications like banking systems. Complexity in integrating banking systems often comes from continues changes in both technical and business features provided by them to meet customer needs. Banking systems always come from different software vendors which mean using platforms and different design and architecture patterns, and this for sure adds extra complexity for integrating them. Serviceoriented architecture (SOA) is a promising method in software filed that aims to build or restructure software systems in a manner that makes their maintenance and integration easier. Agility is the most important goal that should be achieved when building and integrating banking systems. Simply, agility is needed to meet market needs quickly and efficiently and SOA is the way that could provide itSOA, SOI, P2P Integration, Web Services, and Legacy Code

Work Package 6 - Systems Integration Guidelines

This work package forms part of the E-book Acquisition as a Shared Service in M25 investigation which seeks to examine possibilities for the consortial purchasing of e-books, in particular through patron driven acquisition methods (PDA). Four potential acquisitions models have been under consideration, these are outlined in Appendix 1. This work package aims to illustrate some of the systems and procedural considerations which might arise through the implementation of such a programme of patron driven e-book acquisition, and has taken as its basis conversations with technical services librarians about current practice1 . It also relies on responses from e-book providers who engaged with JISC Collections in their work on this E-BASS 25 project2 ‘Consortium’ and ‘patron driven acquisition’, the two elements which define this project, both cause issues from a systems perspective. Efficiency in shared services is difficult to ensure, where one might have a variety of systems underpinning those services across the consortium. Where cross-consortium user activity is the determinant of purchases, it is also important to ensure parity across systems provision. For example a delay in the publication of records for candidate material at an institution could result in the users at that institution not receiving equal access to the collection and the opportunity for purchases beneficial to that user group being missed. When this is combined with relatively novel approaches which patron driven acquisition prompts, such as considering some of your e-book collection as temporary, the problem is magnified. This is not the only adjustment in thinking which one has to make, in the coming report terminology such as ‘ordering’ is used. However vital it may be to create a trail for auditing from one’s vendor to one’s financial systems terming this an ‘order’ when in many instances the acquisition of content will already have been completed, perhaps indicates how constrained one is by processes not designed for these purposes. . The piece focuses, in the main, on the issues of user discovery of content and financial management. It does not claim to completeness with elements such as virtual learning environment integration falling outside its scope. It is also worth stipulating that the library management system (LMS) market is undergoing significant change and new approaches for the management of patron driven programmes are likely to emerge

A Survey on Systems Integration in the Energy Automation Domain through OPC Interface

[Abstract] The Object Linking and Embedding for Process Control (OPC) interface provides an effective means to exchange data between automation-related entities, both hardware and software. Since its creation, it has been profusely used not only for industrial scenarios but also for other spheres, among which energy automation is an important scope. In order to portray the relevance of such protocol, this paper presents a survey of applications of OPC communication to manage systems integration in the context of energy automationJunta de Extremadura; GR1815