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> The NASA definition the original one, I would think. How are people using "systems engineering" as a term elsewhere, that is incongruent with the NASA definit
by etendue 10y ago
> The NASA definition the original one, I would think. How are people using "systems engineering" as a term elsewhere, that is incongruent with the NASA definition?
The term has been co-opted by people in IT doing (I think) operations type work.
It certainly makes a job search much more frustrating since the number of IT positions greatly outnumbers those for the traditional definition.
- superuser2 10y agoAs "engineer" replaced "programmer," "systems programmer" became "systems engineer" (working on platforms for the applications engineers).
- DashRattlesnake 10y agoI think that trend has played out slightly differently than you describe. Where I work "systems engineer" is more akin to "system admin."