Engineering
Every engineering method in the STEM Commons, its steward platform and how widely it is applied.
- 01In briefThe short answer
- 02Engineering10 methods
- 03The engineering strandDesign and assurance for systems that must keep working
- 04Key termsTerms used on this page
- 05SourcesWhere this page's references lead
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The short answer.
The engineering strand of the STEM Commons is the group of canonical engineering methods the Nexus network relies on, from systems engineering to financial and risk engineering. Each method has one page, a steward platform such as Systems Science and Modelling as well as Critical Infrastructure, and a list of the platforms that apply it, so a finding can name what it rests on.
Systemic exposure in World.
Where people and networks concentrate, the exposure through which shocks travel between systems, shown for World as an example geography for this subject.
10 methods.
- Systems engineeringStewardSystems Science and Modelling8Platforms applying it
- Reliability and resilience engineeringStewardCritical Infrastructure6Platforms applying it
- Power systems engineeringStewardEnergy Nexus3Platforms applying it
- Water and environmental engineeringStewardWater Nexus5Platforms applying it
- Structural and earthquake engineeringStewardCities and Built Environment4Platforms applying it
- Urban and transport engineeringStewardCities and Built Environment3Platforms applying it
- Process and industrial safety engineeringStewardAdvanced Industry and Robotics4Platforms applying it
- Software and safety-critical systems engineeringStewardCybersecurity and Digital Resilience3Platforms applying it
- AI evaluation and assurance engineeringStewardArtificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems3Platforms applying it
- Financial and risk engineeringStewardActuarial and Quantitative Risk5Platforms applying it
Design and assurance for systems that must keep working.
Engineering contributes the practice of designing to a stated level of safety or reliability and demonstrating that the design achieves it. Its codes of practice (structural codes, functional safety standards, process safety barriers) are the most mature risk-management instruments any field has, and the question in systemic work is how to extend them from single assets to interdependent systems.
- Design basis: the hazard level a system is built to withstand.
- Assurance: the argument and evidence that it does.
- Graceful degradation: how it fails beyond its design basis.
Terms used on this page.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| STEM Commons | The shared reference of science, technology, engineering and mathematics methods for the Nexus network, hosted by GCRI, with one canonical page per method and a named steward platform. |
| Steward platform | The platform that maintains the canonical description of a method in the STEM Commons and reviews how other platforms apply it. |
| Systems engineering | Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary approach to designing and managing complex systems over their life cycle. |
| Reliability and resilience engineering | Reliability and resilience engineering studies how systems fail, how failures can be prevented and how systems absorb, adapt and recover from disruption. |
| Power systems engineering | Power systems engineering designs and operates the networks that generate, transmit and distribute electricity. |
Where this page's references lead.
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
Pages in Engineering.
Systems engineering
MethodReliability and resilience engineering
MethodPower systems engineering
MethodWater and environmental engineering
MethodStructural and earthquake engineering
MethodUrban and transport engineering
MethodProcess and industrial safety engineering
MethodSoftware and safety-critical systems engineering
MethodAI evaluation and assurance engineering
MethodFinancial and risk engineering
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