The Engineering Systems Design section offers public access to a selection of application-oriented tools and knowledge that we developed and co-developed over the years.
We also include a number of key external resources on the subject of socio-technical engineering systems.
Booklets and Reports
- The Strategy Implementer: A workbook for mastering people and uncertainty in implementing strategy initiatives. Oehmen, Lund Strøm, Velasco, Willumsen, 2018. Download
- Net-Sights: Network Insights for Collaborative Sustainable Production. Wulff-Andersen, Parraguez, and Maier, 2017. Download
- Knowledge Crossing Boundaries: How to improve the design of offshore units by transferring knowledge from operations. Conceição, Jensen, and Broberg, 2016. Download
- Employee participation in product innovation | Medarbejderindragelse i produktinnovation. Schou-Jensen, Jensen, and Broberg, 2016. Download
- Complexity Management for Projects, Programmes, and Portfolios: An Engineering Systems Perspective. Oehmen, Thuesen, Parraguez, and Geraldi, 2015. Download
- Improving the Integration of Program Management and Systems Engineering. Oehmen et al 2013. Download
- Guide to Lean Enablers for Managing Engineering Programs. Oehmen et al, 2012. Download
- Engineering change management report. Industry survey results from Denmark. Maier and Langer, 2011. Download
Tools and Methods
- TechnologyCards: Digital technologies that may create disruptive changes. Cards plus game instructions in TechSessions here. Contact Sidsel Ernstsen, Christian Thuesen, and Anja Maier.
- ProjectLab: Resources for the reflective project practitioner, including courses, a handbook on Doing Projects (see also under handbooks below), a certification programme developed together with Danish Standards, a project canvas and more. Contact Joana Geraldi and Christian Thuesen.
- User-involvement through prototyping. A workspace experiment toolbox with material for architects, consulting engineers and health & safety consultants who want to involve employees in workspace design. This includes a conceptual framework, a board game, playing cards. Contact Carolina Souza da Conceição and Ole Broberg.
- SafetyBarrierManager is a software to develop safety-barrier diagrams for risk analysis. Version 2 released October 2015.
YouTube demo on version 1 showing how to open and browse projects and extract data and tables. Contact Nijs-Jan Duijm.
- DTU's Knowledge Landscape. Contact: Pedro Parraguez and Anja Maier.
- Net-Sights: Web application on Network Insights for Collaborative Sustainable Production. Contact: Pedro Parraguez and Anja Maier or Agzam Idrissov.
Books
- Geraldi, Joana and Mario Arlt (2015): Visuals Matter. Project Management Institute. Link
- Kreye, Melanie (2016): Uncertainty and Behaviour. Perceptions, Decisions and Actions in Business. Routledge. Link
- Cash, Philip, Stanković, T., and Štorga, M. (2016): Experimental Design Research: Approaches, Perspectives, Applications. Springer International Publishing. Link
- Geraldi, Joana, Thuesen, Christian, Oehmen, Josef, and Stingl, Verena (2017): Doing Projects. A Nordic Flavour to Managing Projects: DS-handbook 185:2017.
Details here. Available for purchase at Dansk Standard webshop. See also external review here: Link
- Van Boeijen, A., Daalhuizen, Jaap, and Zijlstra, J. (2020, revised edition): Delft Design Guide: Perspectives-Models-Approaches-Methods. BIS Publishers. Link
External Resources
- Engineering Systems. Meeting Human Needs in a Complex Technological World. De Weck, O.L., Roos, D. and C.L. Magee (2011). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Link
- Creating systems that work. Principles of engineering systems for the 21st century. Report by the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK, 2007. Link
- Designing for Society. Nynke Tromp and Paul Hekkert (2018). Bloomsbury. Link.
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