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Systems Engineering for the Third Millennium
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Engineering evolved during the second half of the second millennium as a process for harnessing technology to produce products to support human-centric activity. As engineering became more specialised societys expectations of engineering it increased. These fostered the need for an overarching process to co-ordinate and integrate engineering and related activities. From these beginnings, systems engineering has emerged in the last 60 years.
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Systems engineering is the interface between engineering and its customers: commerce and society. It has proved so useful and successful that it has been adopted by non-engineering, more human-oriented disciplines. In order to meet the challenges of these new applications, systems engineering has broadened its tool set to embrace soft methods, many of which were originally developed in the human sciences. Thus systems engineering has evolved to provide an integrating conceptual framework for understanding stakeholder (including customer and user) needs; for exploring the solution space to determine the preferred solution; and for co-ordinating all the specialist activities that are needed to realise the selected solution. The discipline of systems engineering now straddles the traditional boundary between the Sciences and Humanities. It has become subject to complex, sometimes contradictory influences. During the 2001 Spring Symposium we would like to explore both the achievements of systems engineering and the challenges facing it. What is the current state of systems engineering? How will it develop in the future? What are the driving forces behind the development of systems engineering? What new skills do systems engineers need to acquire? What new process concepts need to be developed to formalise the application of SE beyond the traditional hard systems boundaries? What emerging technologies can be exploited to enhance systems engineering tool capabilities? |
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Conference Proceedings & HandbookConference proceedings will be issued only on CDROM. The CDROM will also contain the proceedings of our most recent other Systems Engineering Conferences. One copy will be issued to each delegate when available. Conference Handbook. A conference handbook including the final programme, travel directions and other useful information will be provided to delegates. |
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Symposium Sponsors
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The International Council on Systems Engineering is a not for profit organisation dedicated to furthering the disciplines and practice of Systems Engineering. Any surplus funds from this event will be used for this purpose and to underwrite future events. Please contact John Mead (01344 422325) if your organisation would be prepared to help us in these aims. |
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UK Chapter Spring Symposium 2001
