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Typically, two types of engineers are involved in systems engineering projects: the disciplinary specialist with a deep knowledge in a specific field, and the systems engineer as a generalist, who has to coordinate the different specialists to come to a system design. The necessary broad overview of the involved domains as well as a certain level of detail requires experience. Since novice engineers usually do not have this experience, they have to develop it during their professional life.
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Moser, H.A. (2014). Introduction. In: Systems Engineering, Systems Thinking, and Learning. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03895-7_1
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