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Knowledge about the process being modeled starts fairly low, then increases as understanding is obtained and tapers off to a high value at the end.

— Harold Chestnut Systems Engineering Tools (1965)

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Engineers should press forward with development to meet the diversified needs of people.

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A model may be pictorial, descriptive, qualitative, or generally approximate in nature, or it may be mathematical and quantitative in nature and reasonably precise.

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Characteristic of our times are the concepts of complexity, growth and change.

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In a society which is producing more people, more materials, more things, and more information than ever before, systems engineering is indispensable in meeting the challenge of complexity.

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It is highly desirable that we have trained persons look at these varied possibilities to compare their effectiveness, and to point the way to sound engineering decisions.

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