Talk:List of types of systems engineering

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Systems engineering vs. the engineering of systems[edit]

While the introduction is clear (the main subject is systems engineering) the reader, seeing the long list, may easily interpret say "enterprise systems engineering" as the engineering of enterprise systems, without the overriding importance of systems engineering in the way that say INCOSE thinks about systems engineering. Substitute "Wikipedia editor" for "reader" and we may get confusion multiplied by the number of list entries. Altogether, this doesn't look like a productive way to reduce systems engineering to smaller parts - "reduce" as in reductionism. -- Iterator12n ^Talk 03:23, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This list doesn't pretend to reduce systems engineering in smaller parts. It is a registration of the many unaligned types of systems engineering, defined in theory and practice.

Theory here means that the term is used in the title of notablebooks and articles
Practice here means that the term is used in a formal university education program

Now the theory part is still missing here. This is still to be recovered from the List of systems engineering books.

-- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 11:26, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think this article is offering a differentiated view on systems engineering. Now I have pictured this view:

This image is showing the intention of this article. Instead of one view on systems engineering, it wants to give an impression of the different fields.

Now there is a reason, why this list was created in the first place. There is an existing INCOSE Directory of Systems Engineering Academic Programs World Wide list, which lists:

all academic institutions located worldwide offer a diverse mix of bachelors, masters, doctoral level and certificate programs in systems engineering and systems engineering management

This INCOSE list gives the impression there are only two types systems engineering. In verify this idea a List of systems engineering at universities was created, which shows an slightly different world wide view on Systems Engineering education. Eventually that list lead to the creation of this list, which is inspired on the List of types of systems theory.

-- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 15:42, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]