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5 Engineering Disasters That Could’ve Been Prevented with Systems Thinking

Publication date February 18, 2019
Categories: Fields of Study

What is Systems Thinking? According to the latest paper by WPI professors Jamie Monat and Thomas Gannon, it’s an approach to engineering that incorporates the full context of the problem at hand. And it might have helped avoid some of the most notorious disasters in engineering history. Here’s a summary of five catastrophes Monat…Continue Reading 5 Engineering Disasters That Could’ve Been Prevented with Systems Thinking

New Systems Thinking Paper from WPI’s Monat & Gannon

Publication date September 19, 2018
Categories: Fields of Study

This just in: The latest paper by WPI professors Jamie Monat, PhD, and Thomas Gannon, PhD, is now available for download! Systems, an international peer-reviewed journal on systems engineering, has published Monat and Gannon’s “Applying Systems Thinking to Engineering and Design.” Here’s the abstract from the journal: The application of Systems Thinking principles to Systems Engineering is…Continue Reading New Systems Thinking Paper from WPI’s Monat & Gannon