This paper introduces the concept of design malpractice, with suggestions on how and why such malpractice occurs, and steps to be taken by professional, educational and governmental institutions to control and improve design, by fashioning relevant `design criteria.' Warfield's comments on this paper, written in his 1987 manuscript "Integrative Sciences…" WHAT DISCIPLINES LARGE SCALE SYSTEM DESIGN? "This paper discusses the priorities that appear to govern large scale system design, and proposes that a major change is needed in order to prevent the continuance of a series of major design disasters of the type identified in the paper. Data are given on disasters occurring over the past 15 years showing that the cost is increasing, the rate is increasing, and the severity is increasing."

Except for our download, this paper not available digitally but paper hard copy is at Warfield Collection Box 31/12, SCRC George Mason Libraries. Warfield had this paper stored in his PEIRCE 2 notebook Education Papers by Warfield. The manuscript  for the notebook collection is in MICROSOFT WORD-6, a computer file formerly named LSSD87.DOC, typed by Bonnie Seitz.(John Warfield has never proof-read Bonnie's typed version) Also, in 2007, Rose Warfield found a copy of publisher's offprint and scanned it into pdf filename: <What Disciplines Large-Scale System Design(offprint).pdf>  Can't be obtained digitally from ASME because Conference Proceedings available only since 2002 and this paper was presented in October 1987.