1. Select a system of your ownone you work on, one you are interested in, or one you find on the internetand draft the outline of a Systems Engineering Management Plan (SEMP) for it.
2. What is the purpose of a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)? Using the same system that you chose for the above question, construct a high-level WBS.
3. How can political, social, cultural, and economic factors influence the supplier selection process? Give an example.
4. What provisions might be included in a design in order to avoid the introduction of problems that might be caused by the lack of properly dealing with the interfaces? How might these problems be ameliorated with proper planning?
5. What are some of the technical trends in the world that relate to and could affect, either positively or negatively, customer, contractor, and supplier activities?