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System Engineering refers to a discipline that aims to model, analyze, describe, and simulate physical systems. The term system, which comes from the Greek word systema, can be defined as a collection of inter-related elements pursuing a particular objective.

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Fernández de Cañete, J., Galindo, C., Moral, I.G. (2011). Introduction to Systems. In: System Engineering and Automation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20230-8_1

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