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.
2011
TA168 .D425 2011eb
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Title
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.
Author
De Weck, Olivier L.
ISBN
9781613445891 (electronic bk.)
161344589X (electronic bk.)
9780262298513 (electronic bk.)
0262298511 (electronic bk.)
9780262297622
0262297620
9780262016704 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262016702
161344589X (electronic bk.)
9780262298513 (electronic bk.)
0262298511 (electronic bk.)
9780262297622
0262297620
9780262016704 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262016702
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 213 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Item Number
9786613594563
Call Number
TA168 .D425 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
620
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.
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Roos, Daniel.
Magee, Christopher L.
Magee, Christopher L.
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