Applied Civilization Systems Engineering Program

The Civilization-Grade Engineering Track at Open Source Ecology is the core systems engineering pathway for designing, specifying, and validating civilization-scale infrastructure that can be built, replicated, and operated anywhere in the world. This track replaces abstract “design” with accountable engineering: participants work on real, high-consequence problems by producing formal system architectures, interface standards, documentation, and pre-enterprise product definitions that meet economic, operational, and replication constraints. The emphasis is on induction rather than apprenticeship—embedding expertise into open designs, tools, and processes so that knowledge scales faster than people. Outputs are measured, reviewable, and reusable, forming the technical backbone that enables downstream enterprise formation, enterprise upgrading, and the completion of open source civilization infrastructure.