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Software engineering as industrial engineering

Abstract: This will not be another story about how software engineering is \"just like\" performing brain surgery or building a car. I have never been strongly persuaded by these analogies. My claim is more modest: that there is something useful to adapt from industrial engineering (I.E.). The tools and techniques which are associated with the professional practice of I.E. may greatly assist us in the engineering of quality software.

What is systems engineering

Abstract: Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary approach and means to enable the realization of successful systems by defining customer needs and required functionality early in the development cycle. Systems engineers are responsible for the design and management of complex systems guided by systems requirements. There is a growing need for engineers who are concerned with the whole system and can take an interdisciplinary and top down approach. Systems engineers need to be problem definers, not just problem solvers, and be involved with a system through its life cycle, from development through production, deployment, training support, operation, and disposal.