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PREFACE
The
Engineering Systems Symposium, March 29-31, 2004, represents
a milestone for the MIT Engineering Systems Division. In
it, we present our approach to the study of large-scale,
complex, technologically enabled systems. This monograph,
prepared for attendees at the Symposium, contains the history
of ESD and our vision of its future. We also define the
foundation and the research agenda for the emerging field
that we call Engineering Systems. The papers in this monograph
are based on several prior efforts to outline the foundation
and the research agenda for Engineering Systems. The ESD
Internal Symposium in 2002 had a number of informal papers
most of which are available at the following Internet site:
http://esd.mit.edu/WPS.
Following
the ESD Internal Symposium, we created a number of committees
to study specific issues in greater detail. Four of the
papers in this monograph, as well as the Framing Paper,
arose out of these deliberations
Although
considerable time and effort has gone into the preparation
of this monograph, we recognize it is only the beginning
of a journey. We view engineering systems as a new field
of study that will take some time to fully define.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We wish
to acknowledge the efforts of the ESD Symposium Committee
that oversaw the efforts leading to this monograph and the
Engineering Symposium itself. Its members are:
- Thomas
Allen, Co-Chair
- Joel
Moses, Co-Chair
- Richard
de Neufville
- Daniel
Hastings
- Nancy
Leveson
- Donald
McGowan
- David
Marks
- Daniel
Roos
- Joseph
Sussman
- Daniel
Whitney
In addition,
we wish to thank Abe Dane, who served as editor of this
Monograph, and the ESD staff for their great support of
this effort. Those most closely involved are:
- Beverly
Kozol-Tattlebaum
- Fran
Marrone
- Renee
Robins
- Lois
Slavin
- Ann
Tremelling
Joel
Moses, Program Chairman, Engineering Systems Symposium
Daniel Roos, General Chairman, Engineering Systems Symposium
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
ENGINEERING
SYSTEMS AT MIT—– THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENGINEERING
SYSTEMS DIVISION
By Daniel Roos
THE FUTURE OF ENGINEERING SYSTEMS: DEVELOPMENT OF ENGINEERING
LEADERS
By Daniel Hastings
FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES
IN ENGINEERING SYSTEMS: A FRAMING PAPER
By Joel Moses
THE INFLUENCE
OF ARCHITECTURE IN ENGINEERING SYSTEMS
By The ESD Architecture Committee: Edward Crawley, Olivier
de Weck, Steven Eppinger, Christopher Magee, Joel Moses,
Warren Seering, Joel Schindall, David Wallace, Daniel
Whitney (Chair)
UNCERTAINTY
MANAGEMENT FOR ENGINEERING SYSTEMS PLANNING AND DESIGN
By Richard de Neufville, Olivier de Weck, Daniel Frey,
Daniel Hastings, Richard Larson, David Simchi-Levi, Kenneth
Oye, Annalisa Weigel, Roy Welsch, et al.
ENGINEERING
SYSTEMS: AN ENTERPRISE PERSPECTIVE
By Thomas Allen, Deborah Nightingale, and Earll Murman
A SYSTEMS THEORETIC
APPROACH TO SAFETY ENGINEERING
By Nancy Leveson, Mirna Daouk, Nicolas Dulac, and Karen
Marais
SUSTAINABILITY
AS AN ORGANIZING DESIGN PRINCIPLE FOR LARGE-SCALE ENGINEERING
SYSTEMS
By Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Frank Field, Ralph Hall,
Randy Kirchain, David Marks, Ken Oye, and Joseph Sussman
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