> systems engineering, a very broad field born almost entirely from the NASA space program What's the evidence for that? The Idea Factory, a history of Bell L

> systems engineering, a very broad field born almost entirely from the NASA space program What's the evidence for that? The Idea Factory, a history of Bell Labs, claims that it was originally "system engineering", back when America's phone network was called the Bell System. Of course, there was a lot of overlap between Bell Labs and NASA. Echo, Telstar, transistors and so on.