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Engineering Systems Meeting Human Needs in a Complex Technological World

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ISBN-10: 0262016702

ISBN-13: 9780262016704

Edition: 2011

Authors: Olivier L. De Weck, Daniel Roos, Christopher L. Magee, Charles M. Vest, Charles M. Cooper

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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,…    
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Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 11/18/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 230
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Daniel Roos, Founding Director of Engineering Systems Division, is Japan Steel Industry Professor of Engineering Systems and Civil and Environmental Engineering, Emeritus, at MIT.

Christopher L. Magee is Professor of the Practice of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Systems at MIT, where he is also Codirector of the International Design Center of Singapore University of Technology and Design and MIT.

Mark Linder is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at SyracuseUniversity.Charles M. Vest is President of the National Academy of Engineering and President Emeritus of MIT.

Series Foreword
Foreword
Preface
From Inventions to Systems
What Is an Engineering System?
(Re)Thinking about Systems
Life-Cycle Properties of Engineering Systems: The Ilities
Modeling and Analyzing Engineering Systems
Partially Designed, Partially Evolved
Engineering Systems Research and Education
What the Future Holds
Appendix: Engineering Systems Terms and Definitions
Notes
Index