Systems Engineering is a discipline whose responsibility it is to create and operate technologically enabled systems that satisfy stakeholder needs throughout their life cycle. Systems engineers reduce ambiguity by clearly defining stakeholder needs and customer requirements, they focus creativity by developing a system’s architecture and design and they manage the system’s complexity over time. Considerations taken into account by systems engineers include, among others, quality, cost and schedule, risk and opportunity under uncertainty, manufacturing and realization, performance and safety during operations, training and support, as well as disposal and recycling at the end of life. The journal welcomes original submissions in the field of Systems Engineering as defined above, but also encourages contributions that take an even broader perspective including the design and operation of systems-of-systems, the application of Systems Engineering to enterprises and complex socio-technical systems, the identification, selection and development of systems engineers as well as the evolution of systems and systems-of-systems over their entire lifecycle.

Systems Engineering integrates all the disciplines and specialty groups into a coordinated team effort forming a structured development process that proceeds from concept to realization to operation. Increasingly important topics in Systems Engineering include the role of executable languages and models of systems, the concurrent use of physical and virtual prototyping, as well as the deployment of agile processes. Systems Engineering considers both the business and the technical needs of all stakeholders with the goal of providing a quality product that meets the user needs. Systems Engineering may be applied not only to products and services in the private sector but also to public infrastructures and socio-technical systems whose precise boundaries are often challenging to define.

《Systems Engineering》是一本由John Wiley and Sons Inc.出版商出版的專業(yè)工程技術(shù)期刊，該刊創(chuàng)刊于1998年，刊期Quarterly，該刊已被國際權(quán)威數(shù)據(jù)庫SCIE收錄。在中科院最新升級版分區(qū)表中，該刊分區(qū)信息為大類學(xué)科：工程技術(shù)3區(qū)，小類學(xué)科：工程：工業(yè) 4區(qū)；運(yùn)籌學(xué)與管理科學(xué) 4區(qū)；在JCR（Journal Citation Reports）分區(qū)等級為Q3。該刊發(fā)文范圍涵蓋ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL等領(lǐng)域，旨在及時(shí)、準(zhǔn)確、全面地報(bào)道國內(nèi)外ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL工作者在該領(lǐng)域取得的最新研究成果、工作進(jìn)展及學(xué)術(shù)動態(tài)、技術(shù)革新等，促進(jìn)學(xué)術(shù)交流，鼓勵學(xué)術(shù)創(chuàng)新。2023年影響因子為1.6，平均審稿速度 12周，或約稿 。