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Systems Engineering Final Year Topic: Investigation of System Metric Gaming Scenarios

This Systems Engineering final year project examines identifying fictional improvements that raise one score while harming service, connecting requirements, dependencies and evidence through an explicitly bounded systems-engineering study.

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Why choose this project topic?

The value of this topic lies in identifying fictional improvements that raise one score while harming service, a question that links local decisions to whole-system behaviour. Comparing ranking reversals, hidden harm and metric sensitivity gives a student concrete evidence for model diagrams, trade-off analysis and a discussion of assumptions that may change the conclusion.

How do the selected systems-engineering methods affect ranking reversals, hidden harm and metric sensitivity when identifying fictional improvements that raise one score while harming service?

Choose a fictional system or approved non-sensitive case, then agree the boundary, comparison method and evidence required for identifying fictional improvements that raise one score while harming service.

Proposed project objectives

  1. 01Define the system boundary, decision context and evidence for identifying fictional improvements that raise one score while harming service.
  2. 02Create synthetic policies with competing outcomes, compare single and balanced metrics and document misleading rankings.
  3. 03Compare ranking reversals, hidden harm and metric sensitivity and document uncertainty and unresolved trade-offs.

A suggested research approach

Create synthetic policies with competing outcomes, compare single and balanced metrics and document misleading rankings. Label hypothetical inputs and preserve a trace from each conclusion to its evidence. Check the model or review rubric against known examples, then compare ranking reversals, hidden harm and metric sensitivity without treating internal consistency as proof of real-world validity.

What you will need

  • Synthetic policy outcomes
  • Metric definitions
  • Analysis workbook

Keep your project scope clear

The study does not allege manipulation by real organisations or individuals.

Systems Engineering project chapter outline

Use this outline as a starting point. You can edit the chapter titles to match your department’s format during setup.

  1. Chapter 1Introduction
  2. Chapter 2Literature Review
  3. Chapter 3Theory and Methodology
  4. Chapter 4Results and Applications
  5. Chapter 5Summary, Conclusion and Recommendations

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