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Engineering systems : meeting human needs in a complex technological world / Olivier L. de Weck, Daniel Roos, and Christopher L. Magee ; foreword by Charles M. Vest.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Weck, Olivier L., author.
- Series:
- Engineering systems
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Engineering systems.
- Systems engineering.
- Engineering design--Psychological aspects.
- Engineering design.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 213 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2011]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Engineering, for much of the twentieth century, was mainly about artifacts and inventions. Now, it's increasingly about complex systems. As the airplane taxis to the gate, you access the Internet and check email with your PDA, linking the communication and transportation systems. At home, you recharge your plug-in hybrid vehicle, linking transportation to the electricity grid. Today's large-scale, highly complex sociotechnical systems converge, interact, and depend on each other in ways engineers of old could barely have imagined. As scale, scope, and complexity increase, engineers consider technical and social issues together in a highly integrated way as they design flexible, adaptable, robust systems that can be easily modified and reconfigured to satisfy changing requirements and new technological opportunities. Engineering Systems offers a comprehensive examination of such systems and the associated emerging field of study. Through scholarly discussion, concrete examples, and history, the authors consider the engineer's changing role, new ways to model and analyze these systems, the impacts on engineering education, and the future challenges of meeting human needs through the technologically enabled systems of today and tomorrow.
- Contents:
- 1 From Inventions to Systems 1
- 2 What Is an Engineering System? 23
- 3 (Re)Thinking about Systems 45
- 4 Life-Cycle Properties of Engineering Systems: The Ilities 65
- 5 Modeling and Analyzing Engineering Systems 97
- 6 Partially Designed, Partially Evolved 123
- 7 Engineering Systems Research and Education 147
- 8 What the Future Holds 167.
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9781613445891
- 161344589X
- 9780262298513
- 0262298511
- 9780262297622
- 0262297620
- OCLC:
- 777568197
- Publisher Number:
- 9786613594563
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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