This unit enables a student to: evaluate a specific example or case of a product development process in terms of the "waterfall" life cycle model of software development; classify new product developments as: fault correction, enhancements, new but similar products, radically different, revolutionary or iconoclastic products; analyze the causes of a systems failure; identify and evaluate the importance of the relationships of the factors leading up to system complication and complexity; define the difference in process between science and engineering; identify and analyze the importance of sta