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A historical perspective on systems engineering

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With 20 years of the Systems Engineering journal completed, this short article considers its impact on the discipline of systems engineering (SE) as a whole. It reviews the founding principles of this journal and assesses how well it has advanced those principles. In a broader sense, it also reviews 70 years of existence of the SE discipline and then looks ahead for its promises. After several decades of rapid growth, SE appears to have partially stagnated in the 1990s and 2000s in the face of process control pressures. The use of first principles has dwindled. Resurgence in the field, however, has been coincident with the time frame of this journal, as first principles are being redeveloped and new methods are arising. This journal successfully acts as a stimulus for that resurgence.

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  • Eric C. Honour, 2018. "A historical perspective on systems engineering," Systems Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 21(3), pages 148-151, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:syseng:v:21:y:2018:i:3:p:148-151
    DOI: 10.1002/sys.21432
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