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Sustainable Development Possible with Creative System Engineering
Our Science, Innovation, Technology, and Engineering are breaking down just when we need it to ramp up. Few realize that sustainable development has always been part of human development and that it was these elements and how effectively they worked which allowed for our life on earth. If we fall down in these areas our only alternatives are war, revolution, and genocide as famine and want grip a naturally increasing human population. This little book is a call back to the fundamentals of Science and Art to solve our most complex problems. Today, our organizations are sick and not capable of the challenges that must be addressed in our rapidly approaching future. It raises some difficult questions and proposes a surprising solution from our recent past. This book is for everyone everywhere as we all engage in trying to build everything - from software to cities.
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Instructor Information
The text has 5 chapters, an appendix, and bibliography. It is a supplimentary text that is offered with Systems Practices and Common Sense and Systems Engineering Design Renaissance. It introduces systems engineering and is a reflection of a systems practioneers thoughts on the massive social challenges found today that the text claims can only be solved with systems engineering. The backdrop is Sustainability and the elephant in the room of Global Warming as the key challenges. There are no homework assignments other than the students must read Science the Endless Frontier - Dr. Vannevar Bush, which is an appendix in the book and found on the Internet, and then provide their thoughts in a discussion forum. The students are also provided links to the memex and the 1945 paper As We May Think.
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I offer courses at Drexel University.
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The table of contents below shows the detailed topics for instructor planning. The book is a quick 152 page read.
INTRODUCTION 1
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE 3
SYSTEMS THINKING 3
TRADEOFFS 6
ALTERNATIVES 9
INFORMATION CHUNKING 11
ARCHITECTURE 11
SYSTEM BOUNDARY 12
PROTOTYPES 12
STUDIES 13
MODELING 14
METRICS 15
KEY REQUIREMENTS AND ISSUES 17
STUDY THE PAST 18
CONNECTIONS 20
RESEARCH 21
PRODUCTIVITY 23
PROCESS 24
PUBLISHING 26
CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION 29
PROGRAM PROJECT OR PROJECT PROGRAM 30
WHERE DO REQUIREMENTS COME FROM 31
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS DATABASES 33
REQUIREMENTS GOALS AND DREAMS 34
WHAT IFS 34
QUESTIONS OR ANSWERS 35
SYSTEM SAFETY AND CERTIFICATION 36
VISION AND ARCHITECTURE 38
IT'S ALL RELATIVE 38
METHODS AND FRAMEWORKS 39
BACHELOR OF ARTS 42
PERFORMANCE AND MANAGEMENT FAILURE 42
CRITICAL THINKING AND GULLIVER'S TRAVELS 43
MANAGEMENT AND ITS ROLE 43
FAILURE IS IMPORTANT 47
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS 48
LOGIC AND HUMANITY 49
SPIRITUAL MATURITY 50
TECHNOLOGY IS NOT ALWAYS THE ANSWER 51
APPROACHES FROM OUR CIVILIZATION 53
MEMORY AND GENERATION GAP 55
FREEDOM AND LIBERTY 56
MAGIC AND SERENDIPITY 58
LOVE 59
DIPLOMACY 59
DOCTORATE 61
SCIENCE VERSUS LIBERAL ARTS 62
WHAT IS CREATIVE SYSTEM ENGINEERING 63
SYSTEM ENGINEERING VERSUS MANAGEMENT 64
OK SO WHAT DO I DO FROM BEGINNING TO THE END 65
INSTITUTIONS AND COMPANIES TO AVOID 66
WARNING AND RESPONSIBILITY 67
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH 67
TECHNICAL EMERGENCE 71
NON TECHNICAL EMERGENCE 73
DIVERSITY 79
COMPLEXITY 81
COMMUNICATIONS 82
PERSPECTIVES 82
TERRAFORMING 85
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT 88
BACKGROUND 88
KEY REQUIREMENTS 89
KEY ISSUES AND OBSERVATIONS 89
PROBLEM APPROACH 90
BOUNDARY 90
IT'S TOO LATE WHAT'S THE POINT 90
APPENDIX - DR. VANNEVAR BUSH 92
SCIENCE THE ENDLESS FRONTIER 92
LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 93
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S LETTER 95
SCIENCE - THE ENDLESS FRONTIER 97
SUMMARY OF THE REPORT 97
SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS IS ESSENTIAL 97
For the War Against Disease 97
For Our National Security 98
And for the Public Welfare 98
We Must Renew Our Scientific Talent 100
Including Those in Uniform 101
THE LID MUST BE LIFTED 101
A PROGRAM FOR ACTION 102
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 103
Scientific Progress is Essential 103
Science Is a Proper Concern of Government 104
Government Relations to Science - Past and Future 105
Freedom of Inquiry Must Be Preserved 106
CHAPTER 2 THE WAR AGAINST DISEASE 107
In War 107
In Peace 107
Unsolved Problems 108
Broad and Basic Studies Needed 108
Coordinated Attack on Special Problems 109
Action is Necessary 110
CHAPTER 3 SCIENCE AND THE PUBLIC WELFARE 111
Relation to National Security 111
Science and Jobs 113
The Importance of Basic Research 113
Centers of Basic Research 114
Research Within the Government 116
Industrial Research 116
International Exchange of Scientific Information 118
The Special Need for Federal Support 118
The Cost of a Program 119
CHAPTER 4 RENEWAL OF OUR SCIENTIFIC TALENT 119
Nature of the Problem 119
A Note of Warning 120
The Wartime Deficit 120
Improve the Quality 121
Remove the Barriers 123
The Generation in Uniform Must Not Be Lost 123
A Program 124
CHAPTER 5 A PROBLEM OF SCIENTIFIC RECONVERSION 125
Effects of Mobilization of Science for War 125
Security Restrictions Should Be Lifted Promptly 126
Need for Coordination 127
A Board to Control Release 127
Publication Should Be Encouraged 128
CHAPTER 6 THE MEANS TO THE END 128
New Responsibilities for Government 128
The Mechanism 129
Five Fundamentals 130
Military Research 131
National Research Foundation 133
Action by Congress 140
ABOUT THE COVER 141
BIBLIOGRAPHY 142
