Zane Scott, ASEP, VP for Professional Services at Vitech Corporation, will explore the first principles of the systems thinking leg of systems engineering and talk about the fundamental understanding of systems and how we think in a truly new way. We will consider how systems thinking is a real paradigm shift from the reductionist version of the scientific method that is the basis of much of our education. We will see how the application of this thinking leads us to realize the power of “real” systems engineering!