A NASA Presentation This is a presentation packet of transparencies to accompany a talk given for NASA engineers, from 1 PM to 3:40 p.m. in Learning Center #2 of the Ramada Inn, Hagerstown, Maryland. The program for the short course was arranged by Mr. Richard Evans, whose consulting company ERI runs NASA training courses on behalf of Mr. Pat Patterson, who is Director of NASA Training. (ERI is: Center for Engineering Research International (ERI) Inc., P.O. Box 264, Vienna, Virginia 22183.) There is no manuscript for the actual talk given by Warfield. As an audience handout after the talk Warfield passed out 15 copies of "Seven Ways to Portray Complexity" which shows examples of various structural models. There were more than 15 people in the NASA group, so a few of them were given the most recent annotated bibliography, to compensate for not having enough copies of "Seven Ways." The packet of transparencies(listed below) was given to Mr. Evans for his use and for making extra distribution copies for the class. Here is the list of transparencies used in the talk titled “Reflections on the History of Systems Engineering. “ I cannot provide digitized versions of the transparencies, because they are scattered in many locations on John’s old computer, not in a single digital file or folder. However, printed paper copies of the transparencies should be in Warfield Collection Box 11 Folder 28 George Mason University Special Collections.

CELLS CHOSEN FOR PRESENTATION TO NASA GROUP HAGERSTOWN, MD., JULY 30, 1996 Alberts Pattern--Original Version for DoD; Alberts Pattern--Systems Education Version; AP Problematique (Fig. 8.2); Attributes of Structural Thinking; Attributes Field Example; Behavior-Outcomes Matrix; Behavioral Menu (components), and questions related thereto; Consensus Methodologies: Evolution of; Data from Alberts' Work on Redesigning the Defense Acq. Proc; Deere Problematique; Defining "Complexity"; Defining "System"; Defining "Design"; Defining the Archaeology of Knowledge; DELTA Chart for Options Field; DELTA Chart for Options Profile; DeMorgan Index; Enlightenment; Four Books and Their Dependency; Four Indices of Complexity (Names); Goals of Productivity Presentation; Group Working With Complexity; Heavy Demands on Group Process; Hierarchy of Seven Design Levels; Hierarchy of Model Types; Individual Working With Complexity; Intent Structure Example (Fig. 7.15); Interactive Management: What is It?; Interactive Management: Options Field for; JOPES Problematique; Laws Drive Science Drives IM; Math Spaces; Math Intermediate Space; Math of Modeling, Dependency Sequence; Math Root Space; Miller Index; Model, Formal Linear Structural Types; Model, Formal Types; Model, Fundamental types; Model, Formal Structural Types; Movie Example--Options Field; Movie Example--Options Profile for Alternative C; Movie Example--Options Profile for Alternative A; Movie Example--Options Profile for Alternative B; Options Field for Pediatrics; Origins of Low Productivity; Peirce: The Observer and the Observed; Plausibility Map, Mex Futures; Problematique for Nuevo Leon; Proposition No. 2. Miscalibration; SCI; Seven Ways to Portray Complexity; Signs of the Times; Spreadthink Index; Start and Redirection (3 pages); Structural Thinking--Attributes of; Summary Data on Complexity Measures from Applications; Suspending and Reexamining (2 pages); Test Sites for IM; Types of Relationships and Examples of Each; Types of Math Spaces; Universal Priors to Science; Visual Representation of Voting Records (2 Types); Voting records--2 (x-y plot, showing 50% line); Voting records--1 (checkerboard picture); Work Program of Complexity (components). Warfield passed out 15 copies of "Seven Ways to Portray Complexity", which shows examples of various structural models. There were more than 15 people in the NASA group, so a few of them were given the most recent annotated bibliography, to compensate for not having enough copies of "Seven Ways".