Index Structured modeling, 273274 Structured neural networks, 799 Structured text (ST), 690, 693 Subdominant poles,

335, 337 Successive approximation (SA), 811813 Suction pyrometer probes, 151 Summer op amp, 844 Summing ampliers, 494 Superposition, 367 Superposition, principle of, 315 Supervisory control computers, 445447 Surface micromachining, 865866, 870, 872 Surface temperature measurement, 151 Surface wound, 548 Surveys, 270 SVFB, see State-variable feedback Swirlmeter, 180181 Switches, 142143, 497 Switching ampliers, 569 Synchro control transformers (synchros), 389, 390 Synchronous serial data transfer, 852, 853 Synectics, 270 System acquisition, 266 Systematic errors, 10 System buses, 682 System denition matrix, 272 System design, 285296 characteristics of effective, 286, 296 297 detailed design / integration / testing / implementation phase of, 290291 development of aids for, 288293 evaluation phase of, 291296 leadership requirements for, 293 operational deployment phase, 292293 operational environments / decision situation models, 287 preliminary conceptual design / architecting phase of, 289290 purposes of, 285287 requirements specication phase of, 288289 System disturbance errors, 132 System equations, 732, 740743 continuous-time, 732, 740741 discrete-time, 741743 System error analysis, 230, 231

903

System evaluation: algorithmic effectiveness of, 294 behavioral / human factors, 294295 as design phase, 291292 efcacy, 295296 methodology / criteria for, 293294 test instruments for, 296 System graph, 311, 312 System integrators, 680 System-level architecting, 265 System relations, 313314 Systems engineering, 257285, 296298 central role of information in, 284285 conditions for use of, 258259 49-element two-dimensional framework for, 264265 functional denition of, 261 information processing by humans / organizations, 278282 interpretation, 282284 issue analysis, 273278 issue formulation, 267273 life cycle / functional elements of, 260 266 as management technology, 257260 methodology / methods of, 267285 objectives of, 266267 results attainable from, 259 seven-step framework for, 264 System / sensor interactions, 132 Systems on a chip, 870 System synthesis, 267, 269

T
Tachometers, 390, 391, 404, 594 Takeoff points, 457 Tanner Tools, 869 Target feedback loop, 786787 Tchebyshev lters, 194196 TCP / IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol), 232 TCSG, see Technical Committee on Strain Gages T-distribution, 27 Teaching points, 714 Teach pendant, 711714 Technical Committee on Strain Gages (TCSG), 80, 81 Technical societies, 80, 81