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Dan Braha: Good morning. Welcome to the complex engineered systems section. You know, it is often believed that engineering is fundamentally different from the natural sciences. This belief is based on the contention that engineering is a prescriptive science as opposed to the natural sciences, which are descriptive in nature. Consequently, it’s said that engineering is placed at a lower rank as far as complexity is concerned.
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Braha, D., Suh, N., Eppinger, S., Caramanis, M., Frey, D. (2006). Complex Engineered Systems. In: Minai, A.A., Bar-Yam, Y. (eds) Unifying Themes in Complex Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-35872-5_6
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