SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Societies, Organizations, Libraries

  • International Council on Systems Engineering INCOSE
  • Control Engineering Virtual Library (Univ. of Cambridge, UK)
  • Virtual Library for Process Systems Engineering
  • Virtual Library for Chemical and Process Engineering (Univ. of Florida, Dept. of Chemical Engineering)
  • Systems Engineering Advanced Research Initiative (MIT)

    Approaches

    1. Systems Engineering
    2. Process Systems Engineering
    3. Systems of systems
    4. Global Optimization
    5. Multidisciplinary Optimization (MDO)
    6. Risk Management
    7. Safety Engineering
    8. System testing
    9. Systems maintenance
    10. Requirements Engineering

    Journals

  • Systems Engineering (Wiley)
  • Global Optimization (Springer)
  • Computers & Chemical Engineering (Elsevier)
  • AIChE Journal
  • IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A
  • IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B
  • IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C
  • IEEE Systems Journal
  • Proc. of the IEEE
  • Int. Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science (IOS Press)
  • Advances in Systems Science and Applications
  • J. of Systems Science and Systems Engineering (Springer, China)
  • Int. J. of Systems Science (Taylor & Francis)
  • J. of Systems Engineering and Electronics (Elsevier, China)
  • Systems Engineering Procedia (Elsevier)

    Basic Applications

    1. Aerospace engineering
    2. Mechanical engineering
    3. Chemical engineering
    4. Manufacturing engineering
    5. Civil engineering
    6. Computer systems
    7. Software engineering
    8. Information systems engineering
    9. Communication systems engineering
    10. Socio-economical systems
    11. Environmenatal/ecological systems
    12. Military / defense systems
    13. Engineering education

    Research Centers & Groups

  • Center for Process Systems Engineering, Georgia Inst. of Technology
  • Process Systems Engineering (The Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champain)
  • Imperial College London - Center for Process Systems Engineering (UK)
  • Process Systems Engineering, RWTH Aahen University (Germany)
  • Process Systems Engineering, Univ. of Porto (Portugal)
  • UC at Davis Process Systems Engineering
  • UCLA Process Systems Engineering
  • Bahill's Systems Engineering Site (Prof. A. Terry Bahill, Univ. of Arizona)
  • Dept. of Systems Engineering Design (Univ. of Waterloo, Canada)
  • Graduate School of System Design and Management (Japan's Keio Univ., Tokyo)
  • Singapore University of Technology and Design SUTD (open doors: Apr. 2012)
  • C.A. Floudas (Computer-Aided Systems Lab., Princeton Univ.)
  • Panos M. Pardalos (Center for Applied Optimization, Univ. of Florida)
  • Center for Risk Management (Prof. Yacov Y. Haimes)
  • Center for Advanced Process Decision-Making (Prof. Ignacio Grossmann, CMU)
  • Gordon Center for Systems Engineering (Technion, Israel)
  • Lab. for Information and Decision Systems (MIT) (system modeling, analysis, design, and optimization)

    Projects and Programs

  • Computational Models and Algorithms for Enterprise-Wide Optimization of Process Industries
  • Systems Integration for Manufacturing Applications (SIMA) Program (NIST)

    Bibliography

  • Books
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    Book page in Amazon
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    Book page in Amazon
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    Book (pdf-file)
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    Book page in Amazon
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  • Basic Papers
    1. I.E. Grossmann, Mixed-Integer Non-Linear Programming Techniques for the Synthesis of Engineering Systems. Research in Engineering Design, 1(2/3), pp. 205-228, 1990.
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    5. I.M. Sobol, An Efficient Approach to Multicriteria Optimum Design Problems. Surveys on Mathematics in Industry, Vol. 1, pp. 259-281, 1992.
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  • PhD Theses
    1. Y. Fang, Stability Analysis of Linear Control Systems with Uncertain Parameters.
    PhD Thesis, Dept. of Systems, Control and Industrial Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Jan. 1994.