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1946 Jrnl. Marketing 10 286/2 Our successful salesman today is of the systems engineering type who not only knows our products, but has specific knowledge of different lines of business so that he can make intelligent applications of our product.

1946 Flying Aug. 86/1 With the increasing use of electronic devices for the navigation and control of aircraft, A.R.C. has long encouraged the ‘Systems Engineering’ of these devices into the basic design of aircraft.

1952 W. H. Martin in Proc. 5th Ann. Conf. Admin. of Res. 1951 8/1 In our organization [sc. Bell Telephone Laboratories] extensive use is made of an analytical procedure which we call Systems Engineering.

1962 A. Battersby Guide to Stock Control i. 9 Two types of specialists concern themselves with the study of these communications networks: we may say broadly that the Organization and Methods experts are responsible for the general layout of the network, whereas the accountants are concerned with the messages which flow along them. The two functions are combined in the new specialism called Systems Engineering.

1973 B. S. Gottfried & J. Weisman Introd. Optimization Theory i. 5 The techniques of systems engineering (of which optimization techniques constitute an important subclass) are applicable to a very wide variety of physical problems.

2002 D. Goleman et al. Business: Ultimate Resource 1346/3 Systems engineering can be viewed as a continuous cycle, aimed at developing alternative strategies for effective systems utilisation. It is concerned with the definition, planning, and deployment of future systems.