Systems Design

Systems Design

1. Belongs to the prolemic core Software Engineering of the Systems Engineering program.

2. Divided into two study units

   • Unit 1. Concepts and principles of design.
     • Basic concepts and principles
     • Architecture design
     • Architecture design
   • Unit 2. Design Oriented components.
     • User interface design
     • Pattern-based design
     • Webapps design

3. Learning Strategy

   • Organized into 4 Steps
     • Step 1: Presaberes.
     • Step 2: Basic design concepts and principles.
     • Step 3: Design oriented to objects and components.
     • Step 4: Design an information system.
   • Problem-based
     • Teamwork
     • Self-employment
     • Solve the problem raised

4. Organization of Weekly Academic Activities

   • Step 1
     • Takes place in week 1 of the course schedule.
       • Activities
         • Identification of academic year environments
         • Identification of small group participants
         • Recognition of course units
         • Previous recognitions on requirements, actors and use cases.
       • Evaluation criteria
         • Recognize the knowledge previously acquired in the reading of the bibliographic material of unit 1.
   • Step 2
     • Takes place between week 2 and week 4
       • Activities
         • Review of the proposed case and answer the questions asked according to the proposed case, in order to make the designs of the diagrams in place for the design of an information system.
       • Evaluation criteria
         • Analysis
         • Shape
         • Structure
   • Step 3
     • Takes place between week 5 and week 7
       • Activities
         • Review of the proposed case and answer the questions asked according to the proposed case, in order to make the designs of the diagrams in place for the design of an information system.
       • Evaluation criteria
         • Analysis
         • Shape
         • Structure
   • Step 4
     • Takes place in week 8 of the academic year programming.
       • Activities
         • Presents the entire final document
       • Evaluation criteria
         • Analysis
         • Shape
         • Structure

5. Teacher’s Support

   • Mail on virtual campus
   • Virtual campus forums
   • Skype chat sessions
   • Online conference sessions or webconference