Paper Info
Title
A Complex Sociotechnical Systems Approach to Provisioning Educational Policies for Future Workforce.
Abstract
Reforming the U.S. educational system and workforce is a national challenge. Both industry leaders 30 and academics 2,28 concur that improving the quality, quantity [and alignment] of U.S STEM graduates are national imperatives. Models of the U.S. educational system, using complex sociotechnical systems’ approaches and tools that instill systems thinking, offer a holistic perspective to the educational and workforce challenges we face as a nation and allow us to identify and understand challenges associated with workforce preparedness, and increasing the number and technical excellence of STEM graduates 9,13,29. These models represent a sociotechnical system of systems with various sub-systems, each one representing an inherently complex and interdisciplinary problem of maintaining bi-directional, non-linear feedback relationships between one another. Each system involves multiple disparate stakeholders that need to collaborate within a time-and resource-intensive process while embedded in a larger sociotechnical system, aligned with the people, ideas, and support required to support desired global outcomes, of the system of systems, society and industry in particular11.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.procs.2014.03.102
Procedia Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Socio-technical Systems,Systems Engineering Education,Engineering,Worldbuilding and Workforce Development
Workforce,Computer science,System of systems,Knowledge management,Provisioning,Systems thinking,Workforce planning,Sociotechnical system,Excellence,Preparedness
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
28
1877-0509
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
4
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michael Richey121.41
Marcus Nance220.74
Leroy Hanneman320.74
William Hubbard400.34
Azad M. Madni518834.57
Marc Spraragen610914.64