Future of Systems Engineering
Emerging Challenges
The future environment is becoming:
- More dynamic and nondeterministic
- Increasingly evolutionary, with an accelerating rate of change
- Resource constrained driving a need for sustainability
- Highly interactive among individuals, communities, organizations, and systems
There are growing expectations for system engineering solutions:
- Increased level of functionality providing more comprehensive solutions
- Higher order of intelligence and adaptability augmenting human performance
- Greater level of connectivity and interoperability across and between systems
- Trust, safety, and cybersecurity of digital representations
- Increased inclusivity, growing the scale and scope of solutions
Emerging technologies provide opportunities to enhance the practice of system engineering:
- Machine Learning
- Autonomous Physical Systems
- 3D Printing, Genomics
- Quantum and Nano Technology
- Biomimicry
- Complexity Science
- Systems Sciences
- Data Science (Big Data)
- Smart Everything
- Connected Everything (IoT)
- Artificial Intelligence
- Cybersecurity
How to get involved – please contact fuse@incose.org
- FuSE Roadmap
- Projects of FuSE
Charter of FuSE
Purpose: Evolve the practice, instruction and perception of system engineering to:
1) Position SE to leverage new technologies in collaboration with allied fields
2) Enhance SE’s ability to solve the emerging challenges
3) Promote SE as essential for achieving success and delivering value
Goal: Create a road map that drives the evolution of SE to:
1) be increasingly adaptable, evolvable and fit for purpose
2) account for human abilities, needs as an integral system element and their interactions with a system
3) be more responsive in resolving increasingly challenging societal needs
4) realize and enhance Systems Engineering Vision 2025 and other visionary inputs
Scope: Identify the needs, priorities and means for transforming SE including:
1) underlying foundations, systems theory and principles
2) people, methods, tools, processes, education and training
3) the future social and ethical duties, contributions, and responsibilities of future systems engineers