Engineering Systems Division: Recent submissions

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    • America Disrupted: Dynamics of the Technical Capability Crisis 

      Sturtevant, Daniel Joseph (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2008-12)
      This study investigates the cause of the nearly twenty-five year decline in the percentage of U.S. born undergraduates earning degrees in engineering. This dramatic decline has occurred despite incredibly high pay and low ...

    • The Progress in Wireless Data Transport and its Role in the Evolving Internet 

      Amaya, Mario A.; Magee, Christopher L. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2008-11)
      The progress of wireless technology through the past 105 years is quantitatively reviewed in this paper. Spectral efficiency and coverage density are both found to increase in a relatively continuous exponential fashion ...

    • Technology-Enabled Strategy Development Alternatives for Surface Transportation 

      Dunn, Travis P.; Sussman, Joseph M. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2008-10)
      This paper examines strategy development processes in surface transportation systems. In the U.S., transportation organizations typically develop strategy through a formal planning process; however, planning is not the ...