This is the syllabus Warfield used for his 1998 summer & fall short course taught at Ford Motor Company, a project which overlapped the startup of his Complexity Lectures. The syllabus shows that Pete Sferro at Ford Motor Company was the sponsor of the workshop, paying for the contract from his department, where he was trying to interest the upper levels of management in using "Direct Engineering" as a company-wide system. Direct Engineering, said Warfield, is actually the same thing as systems engineering.  In the end, I think Pete was only partially successful at installing Direct Engineering, was overruled at the critical higher levels. A few years later Pete retired and moved to the Upper Peninsula where he built his retirement home. This 14 page document is a general overview and description of the 1998 Ford Short Courses. The document has written descriptions of each course, overview of areas of study, lists of references and study materials needed, and also study questions. 

Fenwick Library at George Mason University has hard copy of John's papers remaining from these four short courses in Warfield Special Collection: Box 41 Folder 2: "Short Course Plans -Ford Motor Company," 1998; Box 46 Folder 34: "Ford Motor Company, Grant Letter & Correspondence," 1997-1998.   John travelled to Detroit from Fairfax, Virginia durinig the summer & fall of 1998 to teach these courses. Scott Staley and Qi Dong (MIT student & summer intern at Ford)  were among the students, plus other Ford employees. John's lecture tour to China, Beijing and Shanghai took place in late July & early August, and also there was an October TIPP  Colloquium talk at GMU using some of this material mixed in with China lectures, since he was going and coming to the Ford Motor Company short course in the midst of everything. It was a very busy, exhausting summer, altogether, followed by an equally busy autumn when he was preparing and teaching his Fall Semester project of the Johnson Center Complexity Lectures at the same time as finishing the last of the Ford Short Course trips. Here is the list of topics in his Ford Short Course Syllabus: COURSE 1. THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF SCIENCE Dearborn, MI July 13-15, 1998; COURSE 2. A SCIENCE OF COMPLEXITY Dearborn, MI August 17-19,1998; COURSE 3. THE WORK PROGRAM OF COMPLEXITY Dearborn, MI September 21-23,1998; COURSE 4. IMPLEMENTING THE WORK PROGRAM OF COMPLEXITY AT FORD IN THE DIRECT ENGINEERING PROGRAM Dearborn, MI October 19-21,1998; APPENDIX 1 Stalking the Killer Assumptions; APPENDIX 2 Demands of Complexity Meet the Killer Assumptions; Appendix 3 Thought Leaders on Complexity.

R.W. My note was written circa 2000, updated 20 Feb 2014.