Educating Engineering Systems Designers: A Systems Design Competences and Skills Matrix

Abstract

This chapter provides a summary of key literature to argue that there has been a gradual change in emphasis in design education, from technical projects, to systems engineering and more recently, the need to tackle complex sociotechnical engineering systems problems.In the 1970s, attention was focused on technical or engineered systems, recognising that by only focusing on small sub-systems, problems emerge later with systems integration. In the 1980s, soft-systems methodology recognised that