📚 Systems Engineering

Books with systems engineering on their catalogue record, first published between 1968 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject systems engineering in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 3,253 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Principles of Systems	Jay Wright Forrester	1968	22
	Digital systems	Ronald J. Tocci	1977	19
	Complex Systems Design & Management	Eric Bonjour	2014	16
	Control Systems Engineering	Norman S. Nise	1992	14
	The engineering design of systems	Dennis M. Buede	1999	13
	Spacecraft systems engineering	John Stark	2003	13
	Control Systems Engineering	Norman S. Nise	2007	13
	The Laws of Simplicity	John Maeda	2006	12
	Man-Machine-Environment System Engineering	Shengzhao Long	2016	12
	Systems engineering and analysis	Benjamin S. Blanchard	1981	11
	System engineering management	Benjamin S. Blanchard	1991	11
	NASA systems engineering handbook	Robert Shishko	1992	10
	Systems Engineering	Howard Eisner	2011	9
	General system theory	Ludwig von Bertalanffy	1968	7
	System dynamics for engineering students	Nicolae Lobontiu	2010	7
	Operational Amplifiers	Johan Huijsing	2011	7
	Systems engineering for commercial aircraft	Scott Jackson - undifferentiated	2015	7
	Systems architecting of organizations	Eberhardt Rechtin	1999	6
	Emergence	Steven Johnson	2001	6
	2006 IEEE Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems	IEEE Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (2006 Bangkok, Thailand)	2006	6
	Human factors in simple and complex systems	Robert W. Proctor	2008	6
	System of systems engineering	Mohammad Jamshidi	2008	6
	Systems of systems	Dominique Luzeaux	2010	6
	Supervision and safety of complex systems	Nada Matta	2012	6
	Sensor Systems	Clarence W. de Silva	2016	6
	Systems Architecting	Howard Eisner	2019	6
	To engineer is human	Henry Petroski	1982	5
	Embedded System Design	Peter Marwedel	2006	5
	Implementing Safety Management Systems in Aviation	Alan J. Stolzer	2013	5
	Designing High Availability Systems	Zachary Taylor	2013	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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