Syllabi and a general overview and description of a series of four short courses given at Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, MI, July, October 1998. Course aimed to educate audience on what processes and techniques would produce results when dealing with complexity. The document has written descriptions of each course, overview of areas of study, lists of references, study materials needed, and also study questions. See notes field for a list of the titles and…

Unfinished paper that asserts that "the lack of historical perspective . . . is contributing to dramatic failures of some of the new areas of engineering and especially of the computer software field.”

A feature article about John Warfield and his Institute at George Mason University that describes his ideas and activities.

This is a rough collection of notes/correspondence/talk outline, etc. for a presentation made before a meeting of GMU's Deans and Directors on 7 December 1988. Includes handouts that discuss proposal for a new type of university, which he labels an "Interactive University." Proposed university encompasses new type of high education that emphasizes “understanding, designing and managing large and complex systems.”

Examines institutions of higher learning in the United States, and how they might evolve. The ideal of the “Great University” is used as a focus toward which various changes and interactions might be directed. An extensive literature search reveals the best available models for measuring education quality, although no one of them is found to be totally adequate for the ideal concept of quality in education. The term `institutional mechanics' is used to represent the…

Provides suggestions for solving two related problems 1) How to introduce any innovation into an established school system, and 2) How to carry out interdisciplinary education in schools, with the descriptions of the types of technical assistance needed to carry out a continuing educational program. Both of these problems and the approach to institutionalization have been incorporated in a concept of a Regional Environmental Learning System (RELS). The article builds on the reference materials available…

Instruction manual for radio (VHF transceiver) built by Wilcox Electric under Warfield's supervision. The manual is divided into seven separately numbered segments: I) Introduction; II) Installation; III) Operation; IV) Theory of Operation; V) Preventive and Corrective Maintenance; VI) Parts list; VII) Diagrams. Includes photographs of the radio.

Written in summer of 1956 when Warfield held a summer-employment position at the Ramo-Wooldridge offices located in Los Angeles, California. See also, “Invariants in System Design,” a paper written in tandem.

This is a report on one of two workshops conducted under supervision of John N. Warfield for the Council for Scientific Industrial Research (CSIR) in Accra, Ghana. Report delivered to National Programme Coordinator January 1997. See also, “Strategies for Linking Producers and Users of Technology in Ghana.”

Discussion of the intellectual history and philosophical underpinning of the work being carried on Warfield's Institute. Presets the status of his goals for study and use of a template based on his Domain of Science Model to develop several new integrative sciences. The four proposed sciences are: Conceptual science, Generic Design science, System science and Organization science. Gives title and brief descriptions of seventeen recent IASIS publications.

To view the full copyright abstract written in Warfield's own words please use http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5408494/#document-tabs.

This is Volume I of an eleven volume set containing reprints of reports written by IASIS staff members during 1985-1989. Contents of Volume 1: I. Report on the Emergence of a New GMU Image for 1990(April 30, 1985). II. Curriculum Workshop: Mathematics for Computer Science (November 1986 and May 1987) III. Shared Governance in Selected Pennsylvania School Districts: A Workshop Exploring Inhibitors to Shared Governance and Strategies for its Realization (August 1988) IV. Designing a…