NDLI: A Need for Visionary Systems Engineering: The Visioneer

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Burnham, S. Jones, K.W. Pope, R.L. Jenkins, L.C. Ramsey, J.
Copyright Year	2006
Description	Author affiliation: US Air Force, EglinAFB, FL (Burnham, S.)
Abstract	The United States' national economic and physical defense depends on its pro-activeness and visionary leadership. Visionary engineering and/or science leadership requires a leader to think beyond his or her normal job description when addressing an old or new technological challenge in new ways. Visionary leadership is important for creating an environment conducive for generating new holistic systems engineering ideas especially those ideas pertaining to development of a network-centric environment (NCE). In addition to development of holistic systems engineering approaches to problem solving and for NCE, a visionary engineering and/or science leader also should have the ability to recognize creativity and provide his/her creative workforce the space needed to thrive and express their originality. This will be especially true regarding NCEs and for shifting the paradigmatic thinking about systems engineering. Without doubt, as the idea of NCE grows it will require scientists and engineers (S&Es) to address challenges that were never before considered to be technological science and engineering problems such as those relating to people, training, education, sociology, psychology, etc. As we interconnect more people, the social sciences and education are also most likely to become the challenges that could be most difficult for technological S&Es to handle. The visionary leader might therefore create an environment where new holistic systems engineering ideas and experimentations could be and are rewarded, and he/she could demonstrate his/her appreciation by example. The authors paraphrase, Former Secretary of the United States Air Force, Dr. James Roche's comments about visionary leadership by stating the following: adversaries, while still assuring our friends and allies. This fluid setting underscores the need for doctrinal agility, and expeditious and responsive acquisition, planning, and execution across the spectrum of capabilities in support of homeland security - from the most difficult anti-access scenario to humanitarian relief. As new generations of technology proliferate among potential adversaries, we also are reminded of the need to keep pushing technology forward (Roche, 2003)
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	12
File Size	400110
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISBN	1424403774
DOI	10.1109/DASC.2006.313730
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2006-10-15
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Systems engineering and theory Innovation management Space technology Educational technology Technological innovation Space shuttles Environmental economics Problem-solving Sociology Psychology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

Sl.	Authority	Responsibilities	Communication Details
1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
5	Website/Portal (Helpdesk)	Queries regarding NDLI and its services	support@ndl.gov.in
6	Contents and Copyright Issues	Queries related to content curation and copyright issues	content@ndl.gov.in
7	National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club)	Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach	clubsupport@ndl.gov.in
8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in