Super User

Super User

A four page check list used as a hand-out at a training session for faculty and staff at Defense Systems Management College, Ft. Belvoir, Virginia. Many of the items on the list are followed by a reference to specific sections, or chapters of The Interactive Management Handbook (1991 ed.). See also, “Checklist for a Workshop Plan.

An outline of a computer program used to augment the interpretive structural modeling process. Sections include an Overview, Protocol and Interactive Dialogue, Systems Structure, Process Structure, Data Structure and Hardware Considerations.

Copies of questions and Warfield’s responses to student questions he had been unable to answer during his time lecturing at ITESM in Monterrey, Mexico 1-6 March 2004.

Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:09

Preguntas Dr. Warfield

A transcript of a video-taped interview of John Warfield by Roxana Cardenas, Chairman of the Systems Engineering Department at Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico. In this interview Warfield responds to questions from the Tech Institute faculty and staff regarding his recently published book A Science of Generic Design, 2 ed.. For a copy of the video, see “Preguntas, an Interview of John N. Warfield by Roxana Cardenas.

Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:09

About the Warfield Special Collection

An introduction to the John N. Warfield Collection at the Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University. Became the preface to "A Guide to the John N. Warfield Collection 2nd ed.”



Warfield wrote this preface in 1988 and sent it to Li Da Xu, who was coordinating the translation efforts. The Chinese edition of Societal Systems was published in 1993 under the title “She Hui Xi Tong-Ji Hua Gong Zuo.”



Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:09

A Precision Electronic Goniometer

A conference paper that describes the navigational system for airplane landings under Instrument Flight Rules (IFR), invented by John Warfield, for which he holds a patent. The system was built and marketed by Wilcox Electric Company of Kansas City, Missouri in 1965, initially for use at small airports where a 10 watt VHF Omnirange System is sufficient. The voractor-based electronic unit, without moving parts, was intended to replace the older mechanical units which were hard to adjust, and whose precision tended to deteriorate over time, due to mechanical wear. Includes schematics and photographs of Varactor Diode Bridge Modulator. For a copies of the patent papers, see “U.S. Patent # 3,328,798—“Double Bridge Network for Producing Signals Having a Modulation Envelope Phase Difference (Electronic Goniometer),” 7 May 1967.”



A few brief paragraphs suggesting the universities stop avoiding deep background learning. See also, related paper “Indictment of the Institution Called a University.”

A discussion of learning principles and how they might be connected to classroom uses of graphics which are displayed and amended as learning progresses, through use of a computer. This is followed by an appendix in which the author's "Options Profile" methodology is described, concluding with an example of an Options Profile for environmental education at the secondary level. Presented at Annual Meeting American Educational Research Association, 8-12 April 1979, San Francisco, California.


Published as a way of recognizing Warfield’s work. A compilation of 21 articles written by his colleagues at Battelle and elsewhere. Each article discusses some facet of the research which was spearheaded by Warfield, dealing with the methodology for solving complex issues in a systematic manner.