The trusted handbook—now in a new edition This newly revised handbook presents a multifaceted view ofsystems engineering from process and systems managementperspectives. It begins with a comprehensive introduction to thesubject and provides a brief overview of the thirty-four chaptersthat follow. This introductory chapter is intended to serve as a"field guide" that indicates why, when, and how to use the materialthat follows in the handbook.
Topical coverage includes: systems engineering life cycles andmanagement; risk management; discovering system requirements;configuration management; cost management; total qualitymanagement; reliability, maintainability, and availability;concurrent engineering; standards in systems engineering; systemarchitectures; systems design; systems integration; systematicmeasurements; human supervisory control; managing organizationaland individual decision-making; systems reengineering; projectplanning; human systems integration; information technology andknowledge management; and more.
The handbook is written and edited for systems engineers inindustry and government, and to serve as a university referencehandbook in systems engineering and management courses. By focusingon systems engineering processes and systems management, theeditors have produced a long-lasting handbook that will make adifference in the design of systems of all types that are large inscale and/or scope.
Andrew P. Sage, PhD, became the First American BankProfessor of Information Technology and Engineering at George MasonUniversity and the first Dean of the School of InformationTechnology and Engineering. Dr. Sage is a member of the NationalAcademy of Engineering, as well as a Fellow of the IEEE, theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science, and INCOSE. Heis the Editor of the
Wiley Series in Systems Engineering andManagement and of Wiley's
Journal of SystemsEngineering.
William B. Rouse, PhD, is a professor in the School ofIndustrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute ofTechnology and holds a joint appointment within the College ofComputing. He also serves as Executive Director of the TennenbaumInstitute, a campus-wide research center focused on complexorganizational systems. Dr. Rouse is a member of the NationalAcademy of Engineering, as well as a Fellow of the IEEE, theInternational Council on Systems Engineering, the Institute forOperations Research and the Management Sciences, and the HumanFactors and Ergonomics Society.