Engineering Systems Division (ESD) Working Paper Series: Recent submissions

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    • Approach and Preliminary Results for Early Growth Technology Analysis 

      Ziegler, Blaine; Firat, Ayse Kaya; Madnick, Stuart E.; Woon, Wei Lee; Camina, Steven; e.a. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2009-10)
      Even experts cannot be fully aware of all the promising developments in broad and complex fields of technology, such as renewable energy. Fortunately, there exist many diverse sources of information that report new ...

    • Engineering Responses to Pandemics 

      Larson, Richard Charles; Nigmatulina, Karima R. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2009-08)
      Focusing on pandemic influenza, this chapter approaches the planning for and response to such a major worldwide health event as a complex engineering systems problem. Action-oriented analysis of pandemics requires a broad ...

    • ESD and Health Care Systems: some strategic considerations 

      de Weck, Alain (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2009-08)
      Proper health care delivery to a growing but aging population is becoming one of the most challenging tasks of our time. It becomes also one of the most complex. Although many tools are at hand, grand designs and implementation ...