Engineering Systems Division: Recent submissions

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    • ESD Symposium Comittee Overview: Engineering Systems Research and Practice 

      ESD Symposium Committee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2002-05)
      This paper briefly introduces the field of Engineering Systems, and highlights its emergence from engineering practice and academic engineering. This paper was prepared by the ESD Symposium Committee based upon its own ...

    • A New Accident Model for Engineering Safer Systems 

      Leveson, Nancy G. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2002-05)
      New technology is making fundamental changes in the etiology of accidents and is creating a need for changes in the explanatory mechanisms used. We need better and less subjective understanding of why accidents occur and ...

    • The Link between Cognition and the Complexity of Engineering Systems Design 

      Williams, John R. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2002-05)
      This paper focuses on the role of human cognition in the design of large complex systems. It contrasts the physical system that is the product of the design with the cognitive model that is used by the designer to “understand” ...