Book description
Systems Engineering Principles and Practice
is a national standard textbook for the study of traditional systems
engineering for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. It
addresses the need for an introductory overview, first-text for the
development and acquisition of complex technical systems. The material
is well organized, readable and fundamental to learning how to think
like a systems engineer and carry out best practices in the field. Since
systems engineering is still developing as a discipline, there have been
new concepts and practices that have entered the field since the text
was published in 2003. As an increasing number of students have used the
text, topics have been discovered that would benefit from expansion,
integration and clarification.
The proposed second edition will be
developed by colleagues of the original authors to upgrade this unique
interdisciplinary guide to systems engineering to maintain relevance
and currency in this rapidly changing and demanding field.
Alexander Kossiakoff
(deceased) was a director and chief scientist of the Johns Hopkins
University Applied Physics Laboratory, as well as program chair of the
MS program in systems engineering and technical management at JHU
Whiting School of Engineering.
William N. Sweet, now retired, was associate department head of
the Fleet Systems Department at the Johns Hopkins University Applied
Physics Laboratory.
Samuel J. Seymour is the systems engineering vice chair at the
Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering. He served
under Professor Kossiakoff for more than twenty-five years.
Steven M. Biemer is an instructor at the Johns Hopkins
University Whiting School of Engineering. He assisted Professor
Kossiakoff in developing the first edition of this book.
