Systems engineering is a general approach to the solution of public needs based on systems engineering groups consisting of teams of multidisiplinary individual practioners with a considerable amount of applied experience in the relevant components to the field being addressed.
The range of needs can vary from deficiencies in the provisions of primary or basic essentials including food, fibre, water, sanitation, shelter and energy to goods and services including information and communications solutions and the design of more effective macroeconomic policies to incentivise more effective corporate level product and process design methods and innovationary pathways based on the learning curve.
Systems engineering makes use of all engineering disciplines, mathematical logic, operations research, statistical methods and mathematics and state-of-the-art information technology and telecomunications capabilities.
An important tool in arriving at decisions in the selection of solution options is the use of
decision analysis models used to simulate the likely results of each one in terms of economics and effectiveness.
1 The basic organization and approach to systems engineering adopted by the Boolean Foundation is based on the "Space Systems" course approach organized by
Professor Bruce Lusignan at the School of Engineering at Stanford University and originally developed by
Bill Bollay at MIT.
