Engineering Systems: Topics
Engineering Systems are:
- Technologically enabled: Networks & Meta-systems which transform, transport, exchange and regulate Mass, Energy and Information.
- Large-scale: large number of interconnections and components.
- Socio-technical aspects: social, political and economic aspects that influence them.
- Nested complexity: within technical system and social/political system.
- Dynamic: involving multiple time scales, uncertainty & lifecycle issues.
- Likely to have emergent properties.
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