ESD.83
Research Seminar in Engineering Systems
Course Notebook
These documents are produced by participants in the course of the seminar and are intended to build a notebook of materials and analyses useful for research in engineering systems.
1. The first set of papers in the notebook address individual "knowledge domains" in engineering systems.
Complex Adaptive
Systems by Serena Chan (.pdf)
Systems Engineering by Cory Hallam (.doc)
Systems Engineering by Cory Hallam (.ppt)
Systems Dynamics by Victor Tang and
Samudra Vijay (.doc)
Systems Analysis by Bhavya
Lal (.ppt)
Systems Analysis by Bhavya Lal (.doc)
Cybernetics by
David Mindell
20 Views on Complexity in Engineering Systems
by Joe Sussman
Measures of Complexity: A non-Exhaustive List by
Seth Lloyd
World System Theory by Carlos Martinez Vela (.pdf)
Complexity Theory by Pedro Ferreira (.doc)
Complexity Theory by Pedro Ferreira(.ppt)
2. 2nd Presentations, on aspects of engienering systems today
Manufacturing by Bhavya Lal
(.ppt)
Product Design by Vic Tang
Highways by Serena Chan
Transportation -- Airlines
(.ppt) Written version (.doc) by Pedro Ferreira
Nature/Environment by Samdura Vijay
Accidents by Cory Hallam
2.
Book reviews
Out of Control by Kevin Kelley, reviewed by Cory Hallam
The Cold War and
American Science by Stuart Leslie, reviewed by Vic Tang
Networks of Power by
Tom Hughes, reviewed by Samudra Vijay
Endless Frontier: The Life of Vannevar
Bush by G. Paschal Zachary reviewed by Serena Chan
The Cybernetics Group by Steve Heims,
reviwed by Carlos Martinez Vela
Lean Thinking by Womack and Jones,
reviewed by Cory Hallam
Transforming Computing Technolog: Information
Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986 (history of
ARPA's IPTO program) by Pedro Ferreira
Normal Accidents
by Charles Perrow, reviewed by Vic Tang
The Challenger Launch
Decision by Diane Vaughan, reviewed by Samudra Vijay
Design for Environment: Creating Eco-Efficient
Products and Processes
by
Joseph Fiksel reviewed by Pedro
Ferreira
3. Other useful stuff:
"20 Views on Complexity" by Joe Sussman
Knowledge domains presentation guidelines
David Mindell, "Opening Black's box,"Technology and Culture, vol. 41, no. 3, 2000 (PDF format)