Rethinking and Reframing Engineering. Challenges, Application Scenarios and the New Advanced Systems Engineering Model

The technical world around us is becoming ever more complex and interconnected. This is a world in which autonomous cars will need to consider other vehicles and road users, a world where electricity systems will depend on the coordination of thousands of solar systems, wind turbines and electric cars. Driving this transformation are increasingly powerful mechanical components, microprocessors and intelligent software, all connected to each other and to control centres via the internet. In the future, more and more experts from different disciplines will need to work together to develop such complex systems.

However, until now, there has been no common “technical language” linking all disciplines, complicating and slowing down the devel- opment of new technology. Advanced Systems Engineering (ASE) will provide a solution to this in the future, by devising a common language that can handle this increasing complexity. ASE will ensure clear communication between experts from different disciplines, so that in the future they will be able to continue to develop secure, reliable technical systems within a reasonable period of time.