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Engineers often work in functional groups organized by discipline. Under such an organizational scheme, the contribution of an individual engineer to the design and development of a product or system is limited usually to the discipline that he or she practices. A similar organizational structure prevails in colleges of engineering. A student’s education in design and development is limited usually to the discipline of his or her department. However, notwithstanding these institutional structures, physical systems are becoming increasingly multidisciplinary and engineers, particularly team leaders and engineering managers, are finding it increasingly important to acquire some technical competence outside their core disciplines [A]. In consequence, design and development is coming to be viewed not as a collection of problems in mechanics, electronics, hydraulics, and so forth, but as a problem in systems, requiring a systems perspective.

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Layton, R.A. (1998). Introduction. In: Principles of Analytical System Dynamics. Mechanical Engineering Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0597-5_1

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