The ‘systems approach’ to human problems: How humanitarian engineering can help

M. Burnham
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As the world finds itself in the 21st century, engineers will be challenged as never before to tackle the systems of complex problems threatening the advancement and very survival of humanity. Attempts to apply the systems approach to these messy problems have often failed because its practitioners failed to recognize the importance of understanding political, social, and economic factors as part of any true systems approach as well as part of any viable solutions to human problems. The relatively new field of Humanitarian Engineering is a balance of technical excellence, economic feasibility, ethical maturity, and cultural sensitivity. It represents the maturation of the principles of Systems Engineering, offers insight into why Systems Engineering has mostly failed in its attempts to solve human problems, and incorporates elements that should be embraced by the engineering education establishment to better prepare engineering students to meet the current and future needs of humanity.
解决人类问题的“系统方法”:人道主义工程如何提供帮助
随着世界进入21世纪,工程师们将面临前所未有的挑战,要解决威胁人类进步和生存的复杂问题系统。将系统方法应用于这些混乱问题的尝试经常失败,因为它的实践者没有认识到理解政治、社会和经济因素作为任何真正的系统方法的一部分以及任何可行的人类问题解决方案的一部分的重要性。人道主义工程是一个相对较新的领域,是技术卓越、经济可行性、道德成熟度和文化敏感性的平衡。它代表了系统工程原理的成熟,提供了为什么系统工程在解决人类问题的尝试中失败的见解,并结合了工程教育机构应该接受的元素,以更好地为工程学生做好准备,以满足人类当前和未来的需求。
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