No More Muddling Through: Mastering Complex Projects in Engineering and Management

✍ Scribed by Rainer Züst, Peter Troxler (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 191
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Sustainable solutions require the integration of social and ecological aspects in every planning and decision-making process. This means: analyse the real world and model the problem-situation as a system; understand the needs and objectives of the customers and clients; carefully develop alternative ideas and solutions, as well as evaluate concepts under multidimensional aspects/criteria. In this area Systems Engineering could offer a fruitful approach. Systems Engineering (SE) is a systematic way of thinking and a methodology to guide demanding problem-solving processes in the fields of management and engineering.

This book explains the most important principles and elements of Systems Engineering and three planning cases demonstrate the practical application.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Pre-Conditions....Pages 9-18
Life Cycle Model, the Problem-Solving Cycle and their Interaction....Pages 19-41
Methods – Interdisciplinary Universal Tool Box....Pages 43-45
Situation Analysis....Pages 47-73
Goal Definition....Pages 75-91
The Search for Solutions: Concept Synthesis and Concept Analysis....Pages 93-114
Selection: Evaluation and Decision....Pages 115-128
Cases....Pages 129-178
Back Matter....Pages 179-185

✦ Subjects

Engineering Design; Circuits and Systems; Renewable and Green Energy; Management/Business for Professionals