A systems journey – with the Systems Boys

Jowitt, Paul

doi:10.1080/10286608.2010.507268

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“…Though not in a control systems sense, Jowitt (2010) and others recognise the fundamental nature of state variables and inputs and outputs.…”

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The conceptual power of control systems theory in engineering practice

Carmichael

2013

Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems

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The paper outlines some important concepts extracted from control systems theory and demonstrates their usefulness in thinking freshly about engineering practices. The concepts provide a universal, disciplinefree framework, by which engineering practices can be approached, de-mystified and advances made. The mathematics is downplayed and the underlying concepts are promoted. Examples of advanced thinking using control systems theory are given in planning, management, risk management, work study, value management, constructability, general problem solving, investment and material and structure characterisation.

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“…Though not in a control systems sense, Jowitt (2010) and others recognise the fundamental nature of state variables and inputs and outputs.…”

Section: Underlying Variablesmentioning

confidence: 98%

The conceptual power of control systems theory in engineering practice

Carmichael

2013

Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems

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“…It is the antithesis of the deterministic tools and methods that form a substantial (and of course essential) component of Downloaded by [North Dakota State University] at 18:54 13 December 2014 most curricula (Jowitt 2010). Yet there are considerable opportunities embedded in the challenges of emergence for the future civil engineer.…”

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Evolution, co-evolution, and complexity: an anniversary systems journey through the Grid

Walker

2013

Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems

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The year 2013 is an important anniversary year. Not only is this Journal 30 years old, but an archetypal 'infrastructure system', the National Grid, is 80. Here we have a system that not only resembles a system with physical analogues of nodes and links, but also one that very much behaves like a system. In some respects it is closer to an organism than it is to a machine. It tells a fascinating and timely story about evolution and co-evolution, about complexity and emergence, and about how users and technology have become woven into a single entity. It also allows us to try systems concepts developed in other disciplines for size and to contemplate the future role of civil engineering. Systems thinking will mean that society will be looking for small, clever, user-centred interventions which yield disproportionately beneficial effects as much as 'grand gestures' that sometimes fail to meet them. The Grid is an 80-year-old civil and electrical engineering exemplar whose systemic success is taken for granted.

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A cognitive approach to threshold concepts

Walker

2012

High Educ

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A systems journey – with the Systems Boys

Cited by 8 publications

References 6 publications

The conceptual power of control systems theory in engineering practice

The conceptual power of control systems theory in engineering practice

Evolution, co-evolution, and complexity: an anniversary systems journey through the Grid

A cognitive approach to threshold concepts

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