Written in summer of 1956 when Warfield held a summer-employment position at the Ramo-Wooldridge offices located in Los Angeles, California. See also, “Invariants in System Design,” a paper written in tandem.

Instruction manual for radio (VHF transceiver) built by Wilcox Electric under Warfield's supervision. The manual is divided into seven separately numbered segments: I) Introduction; II) Installation; III) Operation; IV) Theory of Operation; V) Preventive and Corrective Maintenance; VI) Parts list; VII) Diagrams. Includes photographs of the radio.

Provides suggestions for solving two related problems 1) How to introduce any innovation into an established school system, and 2) How to carry out interdisciplinary education in schools, with the descriptions of the types of technical assistance needed to carry out a continuing educational program. Both of these problems and the approach to institutionalization have been incorporated in a concept of a Regional Environmental Learning System (RELS). The article builds on the reference materials available in the 6-volume report titled A Sourcebook for the Design of a Regional Environmental Learning System, a 1979 Report edited by John Warfield as part of a research contract for the U.S. Office of Environmental Education.

For more information please use https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ330498.

Examines institutions of higher learning in the United States, and how they might evolve. The ideal of the “Great University” is used as a focus toward which various changes and interactions might be directed. An extensive literature search reveals the best available models for measuring education quality, although no one of them is found to be totally adequate for the ideal concept of quality in education. The term `institutional mechanics' is used to represent the various forces at work in an institution and the types and rates of change that such forces produce, singly, or in concert. Only those forces that affect quality are considered. Written as a report for a 1981 research project at the School of Engineering and Architecture (SEAS) at University of Virginia (UVA), Charlottesville.

This is a rough collection of notes/correspondence/talk outline, etc. for a presentation made before a meeting of GMU's Deans and Directors on 7 December 1988. Includes handouts that discuss proposal for a new type of university, which he labels an "Interactive University." Proposed university encompasses new type of high education that emphasizes “understanding, designing and managing large and complex systems.”

A feature article about John Warfield and his Institute at George Mason University that describes his ideas and activities.

Unfinished paper that asserts that "the lack of historical perspective . . . is contributing to dramatic failures of some of the new areas of engineering and especially of the computer software field.”

Syllabi and a general overview and description of a series of four short courses given at Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, MI, July, October 1998. Course aimed to educate audience on what processes and techniques would produce results when dealing with complexity. The document has written descriptions of each course, overview of areas of study, lists of references, study materials needed, and also study questions. See notes field for a list of the titles and dates of the lectures.

These are PowerPoint slides prepared for a videotaped lecture filmed 16 June 2000. For the video, see “Managing the Unmanageable: Infrastructure for the Work Program of Complexity.” This is the ninth in a series of 14 lectures called “Managing the Unmanageable.”

Incomplete document. Possibly part of one of the four BRIMS guides. BRIMS is an acronym for “Bill Rodger’s Interactive Management Software” and used to differentiate it from the more academic version developed by Warfield. See, for example, “BRIMS Application Bulletin #02: Supporting Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM)” and “BRIMS Application Bulletin #01: Supporting the Nominal Group Technique (NGT).”