Senior Design Midterm
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- What are you doing if you engineer a system?
- Designing it
- What are you doing if you "re-engineer" a system?
- breakthrough improvement, drastic changes, top down approach: no employee involvement
- What are you doing if you de-engineer a system?
- fixing problems caused by engineers, simplifying because it's been over engineer or over analyzed
- Who wrote Leadership and the New Science?
- Dr. Wheatley
- What is the basic premise of Chaos Theory?
- Structure and order always emerge out of disorder and chaos.
- What is involved in (or characteristics of) a "control as order" approach?
- Top down, consistency, planned and predictable, managed
- What is involved in (or characteristics of) a "chaos as order" approach?
- bottom up, unique, unplanned, leaderful
- What is the idea behind the butterfly effect?
- A small change in one place can ultimately cause a huge change somewhere else. (illustrates system sensitivity)
- What example of the butterfly effect was used in class relating to the recent Tsunami?
- Fresh water well levels in blacksburg were actually effected by the tsunami
- According to chaos theory, what are the three things needed to get the intelligent design of a system?
- Initial values, 3 nonlinear equations, random iterations