A Proposed Framework for a Systems Engineering

The paper discusses the rationale for, and describes a proposed framework for systems engineering in the context of a discipline. This framework, the Hitchins-Kasser-Massie (HKM) framework has already facilitated postgraduate teaching of systems engineering and has provided reasons why systems engineers have a plurality of views concerning the scope and nature of systems engineering. The contribution of this paper is to place the HKM framework in the context of Kline‟s definition of a discipline.