Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS)

About SDPS

SDPS is a professional society with international membership. It has been in continual operation since its founding. We promote science and education as stated in our articles of incorporation:
"The corporation is organized for educational and scientific purposes and shall be dedicated to the study, understanding and use of design and process science for the benefit of all people throughout the world."

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President’s Message

Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS) was established 28 years ago, inspired by a few visionaries including George Kozmetsky, Herbert A. Simon, Lotfi A. Zadeh, C. V. Ramamoorthy, and Raymond T. Yeh. The founding members and the first generation leaders are constituted by George Kozmetsky, C. V. Ramamoorthy, Raymond T. Yeh, Murat Tanik, Atila Artas, Bernd Krämer and Stan Gatchel.

In the inaugural keynote speech in 1995, George Kozmetsky stated:
“Many of you have recognized the feasibility that now is the time to start a new professional society to foster, to identify and to extend a core of science that deals with design and processes across a broad spectrum of human, technological and economic endeavors.”

SDPS is a family that aims to nurture the growth of the design and process science, which intends to provide the fundamentals for a universal phenomenon: change. The first generation leaders have drawn the paths, laid the foundation and created the value and the culture for this emerging science.

The SDPS family nurtures the pioneering efforts by training and promoting the “next generation leaders”, encouraging transdisciplinary collaborations, publishing highly explorative research articles that goes across the boundaries among natural science, social science, humanity science, and engineering science.

We whole-heartedly welcome everyone to join us in this new revolution of science.

Dr. Yong Zeng
Professor
Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering
Concordia University, Montréal

Board of Directors

Murat M. Tanik

Senior Board Member

Bernd J. Krämer

Senior Board Member

Sang C. Suh

Board Member

Ali H. Doğru

Board Member

SDPS Corporate Officers

Yong Zeng

President
Concordia University

Patrick Then

Vice President
Swinburne University of Technology

Ying-Chyi Chou

Executive Director
Tunghai University

Fan Xiong

Secretary
Bio-Rad Laboratories

Michael Lipscomb, J.D.

Treasurer
University of Alabama

Stan Gatchel

Senior Advisor

David E. Robbins

SES Vice President
Samford University

Fuad Sobrinho

SES President and SDPS Vice President for South America