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Author: Gary O. Langford
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint: CRC Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.703kg
ISBN: 9781439852880
ISBN 10: 143985288
Pages: 406
Publication Date: 09 May 2012
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Professional & Vocational
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
... provides a fundamental approach to a major engineering problem, the integration of large complex systems, which should result in genuinely innovative system design and considerable improvements in reliability and savings at all stages of the system lifecycle. - Timothy Ferris, Defence and Systems Institute, University of South Australia
! provides a fundamental approach to a major engineering problem, the integration of large complex systems, which should result in genuinely innovative system design and considerable improvements in reliability and savings at all stages of the system lifecycle. -- Timothy Ferris, Defence and Systems Institute, University of South Australia
Author Information
Gary O. Langford teaches systems engineering and system integration, and is a practicing systems engineer; a NASA Ames fellow; visiting lecturer in the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department, Stanford University; founder and president of four U.S. corporations (one publicly traded on Nasdaq); owner of an international consulting firm; earlier member of the boards of directors of seven corporations (holding three positions as chairman of the board); executive vice president of a merchant bank; manager of an aerospace systems engineering department; contract research scientist; foreman of a cannery nightshift operation; and lifelong learner. His work of thinking in systems integration spans his education in physics, astrophysics, geophysics, electrical engineering, sociology, business management, and systems engineering. He has served as the principal investigator for contracts and grants from the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency, and the Temasek Defence Systems Institute, Singapore. In addition to extensive work with corporations and universities in the United States, he has engaged in collaborative research with researchers from Australia, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, United Kingdom, Canada, Turkey, and France. Gary Langford is a senior lecturer in the Systems Engineering Department at the United States Naval Postgraduate School and a doctoral candidate at the Defence and Systems Institute, University of South Australia, Australia. He has an AB astronomy degree from the University of California, Berkeley and an MS physics degree from California State University, Hayward. Since 1976, Gary Langford has worked in all facets of systems engineering and systems integration on projects ranging from $200 thousand to $1 billion. His research interests include the creation and sustainment of systems.
