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Perspectives on Defense Systems Analysis

by William P. Delaney

With Robert G. Atkins, Alan D. Bernard, Don M. Boroson, David J. Ebel, Aryeh Feder, Jack G. Fleischman, Michael P. Shatz, Robert Stein and Stephen D. Weiner

ISBN: 9780262549721

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 31, 2023

A guide to defense systems analysis by experts who have worked on systems that range from air defense to space defense.

From Insight to Innovation

Engineering Ideas That Transformed America in the Twentieth Century

by David P. Billington Jr.

Foreword by Michael Littman

ISBN: 9780262044301

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 17, 2020

The engineering ideas behind key twentieth-century technical innovations, from great dams and highways to the jet engine, the transistor, the microchip, and the computer.

The Coevolution

The Entwined Futures of Humans and Machines

by Edward Ashford Lee

ISBN: 9780262043939

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 21, 2020

Should digital technology be viewed as a new life form, sharing our ecosystem and coevolving with us?

Wave Propagation

An Introduction to Engineering Analyses

by James H. Williams Jr.

ISBN: 9780262039901

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: December 24, 2019

An engineering-oriented introduction to wave propagation by an award-winning MIT professor, with highly accessible expositions and mathematical details—many classical but others not heretofore published.

Plato and the Nerd

The Creative Partnership of Humans and Technology

by Edward Ashford Lee

ISBN: 9780262536424

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 9, 2018

How humans and technology evolve together in a creative partnership.

Engineering a Safer World

Systems Thinking Applied to Safety

by Nancy G. Leveson

ISBN: 9780262533690

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: December 16, 2016

A new approach to safety, based on systems thinking, that is more effective, less costly, and easier to use than current techniques.

Engineers for Change

Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America

by Matthew Wisnioski

ISBN: 9780262529792

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 2, 2016

An account of conflicts within engineering in the 1960s that helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history.

Engineering Systems

Meeting Human Needs in a Complex Technological World

by Olivier L. de Weck, Daniel Roos and Christopher L. Magee

Foreword by Charles M. Vest

With Scott Cooper

ISBN: 9780262529945

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 2, 2016

An overview of engineering systems that describes the new challenges posed for twenty-first-century engineers by today's highly complex sociotechnical systems.