August 2023
Intermediate to advanced
642 pages
19h 30m
English
At its heart, this is a book about design. This stands to reason since a prominent word in its title is “engineering.” Design is the province of much of engineering. While some engineers design physical products (e.g., computers, automobiles, bridges), others design systems. Having said that, we must briefly clarify the concept of a system. While the prevailing notion of a system is that it is “more than the sum of its parts,” we can perhaps be a little clearer than that. One of the most concise and useful definitions of a system, in our minds, was offered some years ago by the Nobel Prize-winning economist Herb Simon, who stated that a system is comprised of a “number ...
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