商品簡介
This book begins by introducing popular issues in large-scale private systems such as education, energy, healthcare, and national security. On the topic of energy, debates on climate, the current and future developments of the nuclear power industry, increases in burning fossil fuels, and the benefits and cost decline of natural gases. Topics surrounding healthcare including big data, evolving medical methodologies and effects on medical educational curriculum, and the positive effects of electronic records in healthcare data. Content on education discuss America's use of student funds, static standardized results, use of classroom technology, and usage of a globalized benchmark for both student and pedaogogical performance. The last major topic, security, goes into detail about terrorism and cyber security. Topics such as surveillance, operation capabilties, movement of resources, and the pros and cons of globalization are weaved in with the other major subjects.
作者簡介
William B. Rouse, PhD, is the Alexander Crombie Humphreys Chair of Economics in Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, and Director of the university wide Center for Complex Systems and Enterprises. He is also Professor Emeritus of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Rouse is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
