- Conference Session
- Developing Systems Engineering Curricula
- Collection
- 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
- Authors
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Wolter Fabrycky, Virginia Tech
- Tagged Divisions
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Systems Engineering Constituent Committee
necessary but not sufficient academic and professional activities oftechnical societies, degree programs and program accreditation, certification and licensing,knowledge generation and publications, recognition and honors, and considerations regardingmaturity. Special attention is directed to those attributes that should be developed further toenable Systems Engineering to serve society well in this century.I. Systems Engineering Defined and Described 1To this day, there is no commonly accepted definition of Systems Engineering (SE) in theliterature. Almost a half-century ago, Hendrick W. Bode, writing on “The Systems Approach” inApplied Science-Technological Progress, said that “It seems natural to begin the discussion withan immediate formal