What is "engineering systems thinking"?

Kybernetes

Volumn 31, Issue 9-10, 2002, Pages 1350-1360

  Frank, Moti ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cybernetics; Systems design

Indexed keywords

CYBERNETICS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ENGINEERING SYSTEMS THINKING; GROWING DEMAND; HI-TECH; OPERATIONAL LEVEL; TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEM;

SYSTEM THEORY;

EID: 0036944184     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684920210443554     Document Type: Conference Paper

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