Engineering Systems : Meeting Human Needs in a Complex Technological World.

Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Foreword -- Preface -- Why This Book? -- How Our Book Is Organized -- Our MIT Connection -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. From Inventions to Systems -- The Genius of Invention -- Inventions Begin to Be Connected -- Networks and Infrastructures -- Unintended Consequences -- Growing Systems Interactions -- From Engineering to Engineering Systems -- Suggestions for Supplemental Reading -- Chapter 2. What Is an Engineering System? -- The Changing Role of the Engineer -- A Definition -- What Else Distinguishes an Engineering System? -- Functional Types -- Suggestions for Supplemental Reading -- Chapter 3. (Re)Thinking about Systems -- The (Re)Visioning Perspective -- Scale and Scope -- Function -- Structure (or Architecture) -- Temporality -- Complex Causality -- Suggestions for Supplemental Reading -- Chapter 4. Life-Cycle Properties of Engineering Systems: The Ilities -- The Importance of Not Simply " Working " -- Quality -- Safety -- Usability/Operability -- Maintainability/Reliability -- An Expanding View -- How the Ilities Are Related -- Flexibility -- Resilience -- Interoperability -- Suggestions for Supplemental Reading -- Chapter 5. Modeling and Analyzing Engineering Systems -- Defining the Scale and Scope of Systems -- Describing and Delivering Functionality -- Analyzing the Structure of Systems -- Quantifying Temporality of System Behavior -- Suggestions for Supplemental Reading -- Chapter 6. Partially Designed, Partially Evolved -- Influence of Designed Artifact Scale on Engineering Design -- A Large-Scale, Sociotechnical Example: The Toyota Production System -- The Partially Designed, Partially Evolved Electrical Grid -- The Partially Designed, Partially Evolved Boston Transport System -- The Partially Designed, Partially Evolved Internet.

Characteristics and Future of Large-Scale Sociotechnical Design -- Suggestions for Supplemental Reading -- Chapter 7. Engineering Systems Research and Education -- A Brief History of Engineering Education -- Engineering Education ' s New Phase -- The Growing Impact of Engineering Systems in Academic Institutions -- Much of Traditional Engineering Education Has Changed Focus -- An Identity Problem Revealed -- Challenges in Academia from Other Integrative Disciplines -- The Future Engineering Systems Curriculum -- Suggestions for Supplemental Reading -- Chapter 8. What the Future Holds -- Grand Challenges -- Enablers of Success -- Scenarios for the Future -- Where Are Engineering Systems and the (Re)Visioning Perspective Headed? -- What Does the Future Hold for Engineering Systems as a Discipline? -- A Global System of Systems? -- Suggestions for Supplemental Reading -- Appendix: Engineering Systems Terms and Definitions -- 1. Complexity in Engineering Systems -- 2. Basic Terms Related to Engineering Systems -- 3. Ilities and Related System Issues -- 4. Design/Manufacturing Concepts and Approaches -- 5. Risk/Uncertainty/Safety in Design/Manufacturing and Operation -- 6. Management and Related Social Science Issues -- 7. General Concepts and Approaches Related to Systems -- 8. System Theories -- Notes -- Index.

An overview of engineering systems that describes the new challenges posed for twenty-first-century engineers by today's highly complex sociotechnical systems.

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