ABSTRACT
Systems engineering was originally envisioned to deal with the complexity of products from inception through their delivery. The backbone of systems engineering is integration, integration in both the general sense of bringing ideas, people, and objects together in the form of a project to deliver a product or service, and in the specific instance of discovering and integrating satisfactory components. Systems engineering takes subjective information and turns it into objective properties, traits, and attributes. A review by a qualified systems engineer is most appropriate for any project, including building a building; building infrastructure; and building means of transportation. The cognitive functioning of the systems engineer is unique and as distinguishable from all other disciplines or fields as buyers are to sellers. The development of systems engineering process models standardized a meaningful way to consider project status, technical progress, and the impacts of constraints on allocations of resources.
