Engineering Systems: Meeting Human Needs in a Complex Technological World

摘要: Engineering, for much of the twentieth century, was mainly about artifacts and inventions. Now, it's increasingly complex systems. As airplane taxis to gate, you access Internet check email with your PDA, linking communication transportation At home, recharge plug-in hybrid vehicle, electricity grid. Today's large-scale, highly sociotechnical systems converge, interact, depend on each other in ways engineers old could barely have imagined. scale, scope, complexity increase, consider technical social issues together a integrated way as they design flexible, adaptable, robust that can be easily modified reconfigured satisfy changing requirements new technological opportunities. Engineering Systems offers comprehensive examination such associated emerging field study. Through scholarly discussion, concrete examples, history, authors engineer's role, model analyze these systems, impacts engineering education, future challenges meeting human needs through technologically enabled today tomorrow.