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To view the full copyrighted abstract written in Warfield's own words please use http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5408493/#document-tabs.

Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:09

The OFOP Method of System Design

Manuscript available at Fenwick Library in the Warfield Collection, written circa 1977 as one of the documents connected with a US Department of Education contract supporting research toward a system of improved environmental education studies nationwide. One of the first papers issued on Options Fields and Options Profiles, a technique for group work invented by Warfield



Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:09

OEE Contracts

A description of three projects funded by U.S. Office of Environmental Education - the Arizona project, the Far West Lab project and the University of Virginia Consortium - along with Warfield's development of a conceptual structure of what defines a national system of environmental education, with goals and methods, for use in effective curriculum development and teacher training, on a local, a regional and a national basis, systematically integrated. Presented at The Institute '78 on Environmental Education, Xerox Learning Center, Leesburg, Virginia, 19 September 1978. The full citation reads: "In: Volume 9, 4th Quarterly Report, A Descriptive Analysis of Environmental Education, Appendix A: OEE Contracts, pp 159-178. University of Virginia, School of Engineering & Applied Science, RLES Report No. UVA/522032/EE78/113 (October 1978) pp. 159-178. Project title: Development of an Interpretive Structural Model and Strategies for Implementation Based on Descriptive and Prescriptive Analysis of Resources for Environmental Education/Studies. Contract #300-700-4028, submitted to the Office of Environmental Education, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, D.C."

Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:09

Ode to Holism

Satirical poem sent to a journal.

Discussion of the "Star Wars" or SDI program, emphasizing the problems of government waste and mismanagement which accompany the controversial project. Distributed as a handout for a first year class offered at George Mason University in the PAGE PROGRAM a program promoting "computer literacy.”

MCC was a research corporation or manufacturing corporation in Austin where Warfield went to give an informal talk during the time he was in Austin for the IDTP Meeting in December 1995.

Memo composed to go with a talk he was giving in which he showed pieces of the 1992 workshop. See also, “Notations for Watching ISM Videos.”



An analysis of two Interactive Management workshops conducted at Defense Systems Management College.

Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:09

Notes on Conceptual Sciences

Expressing concern about systems engineering curriculum, Warfield proposes the term "Conceptual Sciences" to represent disciplines such as mathematics, philosophy, graphics, art, semantics and psychology, which he feels should be aggregated into a new constellation of systems sciences.

Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:09

Notebook on Design Science

One page attached to a collection of photocopied articles, apparently intended to be used as reference material for a projected paper