Here are two terms that really do not go together: best practices and unprecedented. They’re like oil and water – they just don’t mix. If you’re a senior IT executive, though, you’re probably caught ...

The system approach principle places individual system elements in their environments and observes the relationships between them. Instead of studying a specific phenomenon first – an automobile ...

The primary challenge in delivering an electronic system is developing and testing the software. Systems aren’t just computerlike boxes; they’re complex products, from planes to cell phones. The ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to deliver a tremendous amount of data from the billions of sensors that will serve as the eyes and ears of the IoT. The number of sensors is already growing ...

This story orginally appeared in the 2015-2016 issue of Yale Engineering Magazine. If you’ve never played chess, the rules are simple to learn. There are two players, each with six types of pieces, ...

Fueled by increasing uncertainty about the future as well as the need to protect development investments in the face of recurring crises, resilience has recently garnered much interest in the ...

The US Army is trying a new, quicker, more iterative approach to weapons and systems development. Its new command and control platform, NGC2, is a prime example of the service's efforts. Concerns ...