
Engineering Systems
Meeting Human Needs in a Complex Technological World
MIT Press
Published on 2. September 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
230 pages
978-0-262-52994-5 (ISBN)
Description
An overview of engineering systems that describes the new challenges posed for twenty-first-century engineers by today's highly complex sociotechnical systems.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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
34 s/w Abbildungen, 5 Tabellen
34 b&w illus., 5 tables
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-262-52994-5 (9780262529945)
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Olivier L. De Weck | Daniel Roos | Christopher L. Magee
Engineering Systems
Meeting Human Needs in a Complex Technological World
Book
10/2011
MIT Press
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Persons
Olivier L. de Weck is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems at MIT. 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.
Author
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering SystemsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Japan Steel Industry Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems, EmeriMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor of the PracticeMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Foreword
President EmeritusMIT