NASA Systems Engineering Handbook - Full COLOR Paperback: UPDATED January 27, 2020 R2 - Most Recent Version

* Paperback Version - 295 Pages - Printed in COLOR *

Most Recent Version of Rev 2 - Updated January 27, 2020
Purpose: This handbook is intended to provide general guidance and information on systems engineering that will be useful to the NASA community. It provides a generic description of Systems Engineering (SE) as it should be applied throughout NASA. A goal of the handbook is to increase awareness and consistency across the Agency and advance the practice of SE. This handbook provides perspectives relevant to NASA and data particular to NASA.
This handbook consists of six chapters: (1) an introduction,
(2) a systems engineering fundamentals discussion,
(3) the NASA program/project life cycles,
4) systems engineering processes to get from a concept to a design,
(5) systems engineering processes to get from a design to a final product, and
(6) crosscutting management processes in systems engineering.

The chapters are supplemented by appendices that provide outlines, examples, and further information to illustrate topics in the chapters. The handbook makes extensive use of boxes and figures to define, refine, illustrate, and extend concepts in the chapters.

Finally, it should be noted that this handbook provides top-level guidance for good systems engineering practices; it is not intended in any way to be a directive.