The automated design of imaging systems involving no or minimal human effort has always been the expectation of scientists, researchers and optical engineers. In addition, it is challenging to choose ...

The system design process can incorporate linear thinking, parallel thinking, or both, depending on the nature of the anticipated system, subsystem, or element of a subsystem. The structure, ...

During the last two decades, CMOS technologists have used scaling to deal with ever-increasing system complexity and performance requirements. Digital abstraction allowed process technology to evolve ...

Information technology (IT) value remains a serious concern of management today, especially how it should be measured and how it is created. Although we have made significant progress at the firm and ...

Space missions are complex, multidisciplinary tasks that involve high risk and high cost. Systems engineering (SE) technology ...

In this chapter, we report our broad conclusions related to each of the themes we introduced at the start of the report. These conclusions reflect detailed consideration of (1) our research into ...

In April 1991 Business Week ran a cover story entitled, “I Can’t Work This ?#!!@ Thing,” about the difficulties many people have with consumer products, such as cell phones and VCRs. Today, more than ...

It is now practical to write software for real-time systems long before the actual computer hardware is sitting in a physical prototype. In today’s world it is rare to find electromechanical devices ...

The Sustainable Systems Process Engineering department is addressing the transformation of the chemical industry to successfully transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy and material flows.

Why does anything have to change? A manufacturing company’s most critical product decisions are made every day in design reviews. And if you assess the state of what a design review looks like today, ...