"It is hard to say whether increasing complexity is the cause or the effect of man's effort to cope with his expanding environment. In either case a central feature of the trend has been the development of large and very complex systems which tie together modern society. These systems include abstract or non-physical systems, such as government and the economic system. They also include large physical systems like pipe line and power distribution systems, transportation and electrical communication systems. The growth of these systems has increased the need not only for over-all planning, but also for long-range development of the systems. This need has induced increased interest in the methods by which efficient planning and design can be accomplished in complex situations where no one scientific discipline can account for all the factors. Two similar disciplines which emerged about the time of World War II to cope with these problems are called systems engineering and operations research."
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p. 5: About the evolution of systems engineering; Partly cited in: Allen B. Rosenstein (1965) "Systems engineering and Modern Engineering Design"
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Arthur D. Hall
Arthur D. Hall (1925 – March 31, 2006) was an American electrical engineer and a pioneer in the field of systems engineering. He is known as father of the "picture telephone" an author of a widely used engineering 1962 textbook Methodology of Systems Engineering.
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