ENGINEERING
SYSTEMS MONOGRAPH
Presented
at the Engineering Systems Symposium
by Members of the MIT Engineering Systems
Division
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
