System engineering - the Soviet engineering discipline, which emerged as an analogue of systems engineering ( Eng. Systems Engineering ) - the direction of science and technology , covering the design, creation, testing and operation of complex systems of technical and socio-technical nature.
In 1961, the USSR published a translation of the world's first book on systems engineering by G. H. Good and R. E. Makola (Goode, Harry H., Robert E. Machol. System Engineering: An Introduction to the Design of Large-scale Systems, 1957) [1] . The authors considered system engineering as a discipline that provides the key to the development of large, complex, highly automated technical systems, for the first time describing the main features of large-scale systems and indicating that collective methods are widely used in their creation and there are problems not only technical, but also organizational -management nature.
The editors of the Sovetskoye Radio Publishing House (hereinafter Radio and Communication) did not like the literal translation of "system engineering" or "systems engineering", and the term "system engineering" was invented (according to one source, the author of the word was professor of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute F. E Temnikov [2] [3] , according to others - the editor of the Russian translation G. N. Povarov ) [4] [5] . The term "system engineering" implied system technology [6] .
The first Department of Systems Engineering in the USSR was organized at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute (MPEI) in 1969. Gradually, such departments arose in many technical universities of the country, and by the mid-80s there were more than thirty [4] .
Since the term explicitly sounded “technology”, the term “system engineering” rather quickly began to be used mainly in applications of system methods only to technical areas and quickly began to lose the original meaning of an interdisciplinary approach and applied theory (technology) of systems, which eventually turned into a narrow concept from the field of ACS (automated control systems) [4] [6] .
Soviet system engineers were basically not specialists who were ready to create systems competitive on the global market, specialists who were able to organize and determine the content of a complex of works to create a complex system, ensure effective management of the complete life cycle of such a system, and creatively combine the achievements of technology in this work , management and economics. The Soviet systems engineer was more likely a technical specialist, versed in the engineering problems of creating and operating automated process control systems and owning the technologies for creating individual system elements. The departments of systems engineering remaining at some universities in Russia are basically training software engineers [4] .
Notes
- ↑ Good G.-H., Makol R.-E. System Engineering. Introduction to the design of large systems, trans. from English., M., 1962
- ↑ Volkova V.N. From the history of systems theory and systems analysis. - SPb .: Publishing house of SPbSPU, 2001.
- ↑ Fedor Evgenievich Temnikov Archival copy of July 29, 2013 on the Wayback Machine .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Batrovrin V.K. Education in systems engineering - problems of training specialists for creating competitive systems Archived on April 7, 2014. // Internet magazine "Open Education". - 2010, No. 2.
- ↑ System engineering and its implementation in the educational programs of Tomsk Polytechnic University / P. Chubik, N. G. Markov, E. A. Miroshnichenko, T. S. Petrovskaya // News of TPU. - 2013. - T. 323, No. 5. - S. 176-181.
- ↑ 1 2 Kholkin D.V. System Engineering - a new profession for the new energy industry // Energy Development (Energy Market). - 2010, No. 3 (13).
Literature
- Koryagin S.I., Klachek P.M., Lizorkina O.A. Intelligent systems engineering: monograph. - Kaliningrad: Publishing house of the BFU im. I. Kant, 2015 .-- 315 p.
- System Engineering / Buslenko N.P. // Safflower - Soan. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1976. - ( Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vols.] / Ch. Ed. A. M. Prokhorov ; 1969-1978, vol. 23).
- Nikolaev V. I., Brook V. M. System engineering: methods and applications. - M .: Mechanical Engineering, 1985. - 199 p.
Links
- System Engineering . Systemic problems of reliability, quality and information technology . Ch. ed. Yu. N. Kofanov . - Network electronic scientific journal. Date of treatment June 19, 2014.
- Batrovrin V. K. From the editor of the Russian edition , foreword to the book. Kosyakov A., Sweet W., Seymour S., Beamer S. System Engineering. Principles and Practice / Per. from English V. Batovrin. - M.: DMK Press. - 2014 .-- 636 p. ISBN 978-5-97060-068-9