Systems Engineer
Perhaps you have seen the recent Money Magazine article that listed SYSTEMS ENGINEER as the #1 job, based on salary and growth prospect. So what is Systems Engineering?
Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering that focuses on how complex engineering projects should be designed and managed. Issues such as logistics, the coordination of different teams, and automatic control of machinery become more difficult when dealing with large, complex projects. Systems engineering deals with work-processes and tools to handle such projects, and it overlaps with both technical and human-centered disciplines such as control engineering and project management.
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Systems Engineering includes both an approach and a discipline in engineering. Systems Engineering has the goal to formalize the approach and discover and develop new methods and research opportunities. As an approach, Systems Engineering looks at the “big picture” (includes everything) and is very interdisciplinary by the nature of the work. This is an excellent career choice for those that like working at a high-level across the breadth of a problem, and not neccessarity the depth of each issue. Those that enjoy learning about areas outside their main expertise also do well as systems engineers.
The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) is a not-for-profit membership organization founded in 1990. Their mission is to share, promote and advance the best of systems engineering from across the globe for the benefit of humanity and the planet.
You can learn more about INCOSE at http://www.incose.org/
