1. Write your preferred definition of Systems Engineering. Inter-related set of components that focuses on customer needs to create, evolve, and verify a successful system life-cycle. 2. Identify the Three Elements of a System: 1- Component 2.- Attribute 3- Relationship 3. Systems Engineering began in earnest during the 1950s in order to manage the complexity of engineering processes and teams that were driven by: the theories. 4. Descartes developed the Scientific Method (or Reductionist) approach that touches many aspects of our lives. Known as the reductionism the process involves breaking big things down into smaller understandable pieces. It was thought that if it was possible to explain the purpose or function of the smaller pieces, the function of the whole could then be explained by bringing together the part explanations. 5. Cartesian reduction could not explain why some wholes possess capabilities, have certain properties, and/or behave in ways that are attributable to their individual parts in isolation. The name given to these capabilities, properties, and behaviors was __complex_