1. Introducing Engineering Systems Design: A new engineering perspective on the challenges of our times
2. History of Engineering Systems Design Research and Practice
3. Design perspectives, theories and processes for engineering systems design
4. The Evolution of Complex Engineering Systems
5. Sustainable Futures from an Engineering Systems Perspective
6. Digitalisation of Society
7. Systems thinking: practical insights on systems-led design in socio-technical engineering systems
Section II. Describing Engineering Systems
8. Technical and Social Complexity
9. Human Behaviour, Roles, and Processes
10. Risk, Uncertainty, and Ignorance in Engineering Systems Design
11. Properties of Engineering Systems
Section III. Describing Engineering Systems Interventions
12. Engineering Systems Design Goals and Stakeholder Needs
13. Architecting Engineering Systems
14. Data-Driven Preference Modelling in Engineering Systems Design
15. Formulating engineering systems requirements
16. Designing for Human Behaviour in a Systemic World
17. Designing for Technical Behaviour
18. Dynamics and Emergence: Case Examples from Literature
19. Designing for emergent safety in engineering systems
20. Flexibility and real options in engineering systems design
21. Engineering Systems in Flux: Designing and Evaluating Interventions in Dynamic Systems
22. Engineering Systems Integration, Testing, and Validation
23. Evaluating Engineering Systems Interventions
Section IV. Reflecting on Engineering Systems Interventions 24. Research Methods for Supporting Engineering Systems Design
25. Transforming Engineering Systems
26. Asking Effective Questions
27. Choosing Effective Means
28. Creating Effective Efforts
29. Ethics and Equity-Centred Perspectives in Engineering Systems Design
30. Roles and Skills of Engineering Systems Designers
Section V. Futures of Engineering Systems Design 31. Educating Engineering Systems Designers: A Systems Design Competences and Skills Matrix
32. Engineering Systems Interventions in Practice
33. Public Policy and Engineering Systems Synergy
34. Transitioning to Sustainable Engineering Systems
35. Engineering Systems Design: A Look to the Future
Anja Maier is Professor of Engineering Systems Design and Head of Department Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management at the University of Strathclyde. She is also Professor at the DTU – Technical University of Denmark, where she has led the Engineering Systems Design research section, conducting interdisciplinary research into designing, building, and operating engineering systems. Linking the human and engineering sides in systems design with a focus on studying and supporting human behaviour, Prof. Maier’s research results have had direct impact on the design and development of automobile and aero engines, healthcare services, medical devices, and cleantech networks. In particular, her work on system design process maturity and capability maturity assessment methods is frequently cited. Prof. Maier serves on the Board of Management of the worldwide Design Society, on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Engineering Design, and as Associate Editor of the Design Science Journal. She is a Member of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), a Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, of the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech), Germany and of the National Academy of Technical Sciences (ATV), Denmark.
Josef Oehmen is Associate Professor at DTU - Technical University of Denmark, Engineering Systems Design research section. His research focuses on managing large-scale engineering programs, especially on the management of risk and resilience. He teaches engineering design, project management and risk management at the graduate and post-graduate level. He has worked with over 100 organisations to improve their engineering strategy and execution. Prof. Oehmen is the founder and coordinator of the DTU RiskLab, co-founded DTUs Engineering Systems Design research section and founded MITs Consortium for Engineering Program Excellence. Prior to DTU, he worked at MIT and ETH Zurich, where he also obtained his PhD. Prof. Oehmen led working groups at both the Design Society and INCOSE, and was one of the early drivers behind INCOSE’s and PMI’s ongoing strategic cooperation on engineering program management.
Pieter Vermaas is Associate Professor at the Ethics and Philosophy Department of Delft University of Technology. His current research in philosophy of technology focuses on quantum technologies and design methodology. Research on quantum technologies concern their emergence and impact on society and on our understanding of quantum physics. Research on design includes analysis and validation of design methods within the traditional domains of engineering, product development, and architecture as well as in business, policy, and the social realm. This research builds on earlier analytic projects on engineering and on the concepts of technical artefact and technical function. These projects have resulted in an action-theoretical analysis of the design and use of artefacts, a philosophical account of technical functions called the ICE theory (Technical Functions, Springer, 2010) as well as a textbook on philosophy of technology (A Philosophy of Technology, Morgan and Claypool, 2011) and a handbook with Springer Nature on Ethics, Values and Technological Design (Springer, 2015). Vermaas is Editor-in-Chief of the Springer Nature book series Philosophy of Engineering and Technology.