Smart Engineering Platform: An Overview of New Engineering Taxonomy

Abstract

This paper presents an engineering taxonomy capable of engineering multi domain systems. Traditional engineering science approaches have succeeded in developing infrastructure, products and applications, but this is not enough to answer the complexity of the issues of living in the 21st century. We develop Smart Engineeering Platform (SEP), having five dimensions (i) hard, (ii) soft, (iii) liquid, (iv) vapour, and (v) the spatial engineering. These engineering dimensions have resulted in design dan implementation of hardware, software, liquidware, vapourware, and spatialware. Combining these dimensions results in multi-domain systems, such as signal processing systems, competitive systems (e.g, product-services-knowledge-value systems PSKV-S), as well as spiritual computing (immersive environments).