The book contains eleven chapters based on a series of lectures on systems engineering presented at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif., in the Spring of 1971. Three of the chapters are overviews of systems engineering (or systems analysis), four discuss the techniques used by systems engineers, two describe applications of systems engineering at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif, and at NASA, and two excellent chapters provide a critique arid a few caveats concerning the approach.

Includes bibliographical references and index. "1971 lecture series at the California Institute of Technology."