Wikipedia:WikiProject Systems Engineering Initiative

This WikiProject Systems Engineering is an initiative of the WikiProject Systems and aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of theory and practice of Systems engineering in Science and Society.

As of late April 2007, it seems that the Systems engineering articles and their surroundings were not especially well organized on Wikipedia by comparison with most other specialized scientific disciplines. WikiProject Systems Engineering is an initiative to organize, thematize, personalize and actualize this information on Wikipedia. This Wikiproject notably looks to improve the article about systems engineering, in time, to 'featured article' status.
 * You can help this project evolve with ideas, comments and suggestion. Please leave a message on to talkpage or contact Mdd

Participations

 * 1) This initiative started May 7, 2007, with Mdd and Allan McInnes, see
 * 2) Systems engineer Truthanado gave some random thoughts, see
 * 3) Systems engineer  Gnusbiz  started to make improvements to the systems engineering article.

Listing of initiatives
These initiatives on articles, images and other organization are in progress:
 * 1) Furter discussion and improvement of the systems engineering article
 * 2) Central discussion on improving Systems engineering, see
 * 3) Modification of the List of systems engineers
 * 4) Initiation of a List of systems engineering topics, see also.
 * 5) Analyzing further use of see List of Systems Engineering Images
 * 6) Starting with some templates around systems engineering
 * 7) Improvement of the WikiProject Systems/List of systems engineering books
 * 8) Further improvement of the WikiProject Systems/List of systems engineering at universities

Further steps

 * Further reflection on the improvement of Systems Engineering
 * Writing and improving articles in the Category:Systems engineering, see also: Requested articles
 * Writing articles about systems engineers

Completed initiatives

 * 1) Initiation of the article IEEE Simon Ramo Medal, 9 May 2007.
 * 2) Initiation of a Category:Systems engineers, 24 May 2007.
 * 3) Initiation of an category systems engineering on Wikimedia Commons, see, 14 May 2007.
 * 4) Collection and uploading of systems engineers images, see category:Systems engineers
 * 5) Collecting and uploading of systems engineering images, see category:Systems engineering
 * 6) Initiation of a List of major publications on systems engineering, transformed to the List of systems engineering books on 6 July 2007. This came under fire, was transformed back to WikiProject Systems/List of systems engineering books, and needs some more work.
 * 7) Initiation of a List of universities with systems engineering, transformed to the List of systems engineering at universities on 6 July 2007. This came under fire, was transformed back to WikiProject Systems/List of systems engineering at universities, and needs some more work.

General articles about systems engineering

 * Systems engineering: Template with the main subfields of Sustems Engineering, Systems Engineering methods and Systems engineers.
 * Systems engineer: an article about the people in the field of Systems Engineering: Old and young, proven and promissing, man and femal, technical and eductional, scientific and managers...
 * Systems engineering methods: an overview of methods based on systems thinking principles and now more general of still typical to systems engineering.

Specific articles about Systems Engineers
Requisted:
 * Arnaldo Maria Angelini - Baruch Berman - Benjamin Blanchard - James Brill - Harry Carlson - Boris E. Chertok - Claud M. Davis - Wolt Fabrycky - Kevin Forsberg - George Friedman (Systems engineer) - Paul E. Green Jr. - George H. Gelb - - David Heebner - Eric Honour - Philip John (Systems engineer) -  Jerome Lake - Robert J. Lano - Victor B. Lawrence - Donald J. Leonard - Virginia Lentz - David Long (Systems engineer) - Brian Mar - John S. Mayo - William H. McCumber - Harold Mooz - Kurt E. Petersen - Philip M'Pherson - Ken Ptack - Neal A. Richardson - Donna H. Rhodes - Paul Robitaille - Andrew P. Sage - Wade H. Shaw - John Snoderly - William Schoening - Nikolai N. Sheremetevsky - William W. Simmons - Jack M. Sipress - John Snoderly - Heinz Stoewer - Edward H. Sussenguth - Joseph T. Threston - Donald C. Wetzel

Existing 1 May 2007: (at the start of this WikiProject initiative)
 * Genrich Altshuller - Wernher von Braun - Donald A. Coggan - Tom Gilb - Gwilym Jenkins - Clarence Johnson - Rudolf Emil Kalman - Robert Engel Machol - Bradford Parkinson - Simon Ramo - Eberhardt Rechtin - Joseph Francis Shea -  A. Wayne Wymore - John N. Warfield

Realized after 1 May 2007:
 * Harold Chestnut - Harry H. Goode - Arthur David Hall III - Derek Hitchins - George Klir

This list is based on:
 * IEEE Simon Ramo Medal winners
 * Former INCOSE presidents
 * List of systems engineers

Specific articles about SE methods and tools

 * Concept Description Sheet
 * Computer Resource Reference Model
 * Functional flow block diagram
 * N2 chart
 * Tricotyledon theory of system design

This list is partially based on:
 * List of Systems Engineering Images

Specific articles about SE processes

 * Acquisition
 * Acquisition process
 * Contracting process

This list is based on:
 * List of Systems Engineering Images