Session Organizers

• Dr. James A. Crowder Chief Engineer, Raytheon Intelligence, Information, and Services
• Dr. John N. Carbone Engineering Fellow, Raytheon Intelligence, Information, and Services
• Dr. Julia Taylor Professor: Computer & Information Technology, Purdue, IN, USA, Fellow: Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) Purdue, IN, USA
• Dr. Murat M. Tanik Professor, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL.

Description

System Engineering activities are an integral part of a program’s life-cycle. They complement the program management and the design activities by placing greater emphasis on iterative development, trade studies, uncertainties, and technical risk management in order to optimize program success, to include providing and analyzing Technical Performance measures to ensure performance within cost and schedule constraints. As we move from classical systems engineering to more viable modern System of Systems Engineering (including agile Systems Engineering) approaches, the rapidly converging global environment is driving us to comprehend and employ increasing numbers of disciplines in the overall architectural design process, providing a convergence of classical Systems Engineering with a host of inter-related disciplines required to handle future system designs.

Systems Engineering is, by its nature, a multidisciplinary science, endeavoring to look at the “big picture”, defining what a system must do; encompassing all aspects, including functionality, performance, reliability, etc. The Multidisciplinary Disciplinary Systems Engineering (MDSE) approach is one where methods from multiple disciplines are examined to determine topic benefits within any one discipline. For instance, the development of Computer Science discipline over the last three decades has created an inherent revolutionary way of thinking and approaching problems due to the vast application of computational needs across every scientific domain. True research cannot be accomplished today without Computational thinking; Systems Engineering being responsible for handling the overarching delivery of any project or program is sorely lacking this expertise. Additionally, the systems engineers working in various domains have little to no understanding, theory, tools, concepts, methods or guidance to assist them in engineering across the many disciplines they are responsible to understand in order to develop viable solutions in the vastly complex environments they are thrust into today.

Topics for this session include but are not limited to:

• Systems Engineering