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Multidisciplinary Engineering will be a requirement for designers of modern systems in the near future. Much of the undergraduate Systems Engineering education is not effective in preparing engineers for the multidisciplinary approaches that will be required for system-of-systems integration and system optimization in the future. Commercial companies are becoming increasingly aware of the need for systems engineers, particularly systems engineers that understand a host of disciplines required to design, implement, and manage complex Information Technology systems. Engineering students must learn and adopt a breadth of disciplines to be ready for the systems engineering challenges of the future. Not only will Systems Engineering skills be required, but a host of other skills like Business Intelligence, Human Factors, Technology Integration, along with a working knowledge of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) skills. Systems Engineers can no longer become a stovepipe of systems engineering knowledge, and assume someone else will handle making sure their designs conform to the needs of other disciplines. Figure 2.1 below illustrates the confluence of these skills into the field of Multidisciplinary Systems Engineering [25].
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Depicts a representation of processing environment from the University of Alabama, Birmingham Hartman Genetics Lab (circa 2007).
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Crowder, J.A., Carbone, J.N., Demijohn, R. (2016). Multidisciplinary Systems Engineering. In: Multidisciplinary Systems Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22398-8_2
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