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Applications of Systems 56-IBC
Engineering

Applying Systems Engineering Across Industry Domains

FR OM TO
Systems engineering is a recognized discipline Systems engineering is broadly recognized by
within Aerospace and Defense, and is applied in global economic and business leaders as a val-
many other domains as well. However, it is only ue-added discipline related to a wide variety of
recently being recognized as a formal discipline commercial products, systems and services, as
in other industry domains such as automotive, well as government services and infrastructure.
transportation, and biomedical. The lack of recog- This broad community of practitioners result
nition of systems engineering as a formal disci- in the sharing and maturation of more robust
pline in other industry domains limits the ability systems engineering practices and foundations.
of systems engineering practitioners to share and
mature their practices.

Systems engineering must scale and add value and healthcare. Systems engineering will also
to a broad range of systems, stakeholders, and contribute to assessments and analysis of socio-
organizations with a diversity of size and complex- physical systems such as the global climate system
ity. In particular, the discipline will be increasingly to inform stakeholders and decision makers of the
relevant to global socio-technical and large-scale emergent impacts of organizational and public
enterprise systems such as urban transportation policy actions.

SHARING OF
PRACTICES AND
KNOWLEDGE ACROSS
DOMAINS (AND ADD-
ING VALUE TO EACH
DOMAIN)
Biomedical Transportation Consumer Products

Systems
Engineering
Body of
Knowledge

Automotive Energy

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