Transdisciplinary Systems Engineering: Exploiting Convergence in a Hyper-Connected World

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This book explores the ways that disciplinary convergence and technological advance are transforming systems engineering to address gaps in complex systems engineering: Transdisciplinary Systems Engineering (TSE). TSE reaches beyond traditional disciplines to find connections—and this book examines a range of new methods from across such disparate areas of scholarship as computer science, social science, human studies, and systems design to reveal patterns, efficiencies, affordances, and pathways to intuitive design. Organized to serve multiple constituencies, the book stands as an ideal textbook supplement for graduate courses in systems engineering, a reference text for program managers and practicing engineers in all industries, and a primary source for researchers engaged in multidisciplinary research in systems engineering and design. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Twenty-First-Century Imperatives (Azad M. Madni)....Pages 1-9 Thinking Different (Azad M. Madni)....Pages 11-39 Disciplinary Convergence (Azad M. Madni)....Pages 41-47 Disruptive Collaboration (Azad M. Madni)....Pages 49-58 From Models to Stories (Azad M. Madni)....Pages 59-87 Novel Options Generation (Azad M. Madni)....Pages 89-102 Human Performance Enhancement (Azad M. Madni)....Pages 103-118 Design Elegance and Systems Engineering (Azad M. Madni)....Pages 119-132 Affordable Resilience (Azad M. Madni)....Pages 133-159 Autonomous System-of-Systems (Azad M. Madni)....Pages 161-186 Looking to the Future (Azad M. Madni)....Pages 187-204 Back Matter ....Pages 205-212