Day 2

KEYNOTE – Systems Thinking, System of Systems, and the Extended Enterprise Dr. John Boardman, Distinguished Service Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology

Project Management: A Systems Approach – Dr. Aaron Shenhar, Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology

Architectural Thinking – Dr. Gerrit Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Embedded Systems Institute (Netherlands)

KEYNOTE – Challenges in Systems Engineering – An Intelligence Community Perspective Mr. Kelly Miller, Chief Systems Engineer, NSA

PLENARY SESSION

·         Debrief of ROI on Systems Engineering Executive Forum Dr. Mike Pennotti, Industry Professor and Director of the SDOE Program, Stevens Institute of Technology

·         Value of Systems Engineering 

·         Institutionalizing SE

·         Value of Systems Engineering 

·         Value of Systems engineering contd… 

·         Lack of Systems Engineering

·         Lack of Systems Engineering Contd… 

·         Accountability 

·         Measuring Value Stream 

 

Track 2.2 Systems Engineering Methodologies, Practices, Methods, Tools, and Metrics

1.Invited Talk: Research Challenges in Design and Evaluation of System Architectures (Alex Levis, Professor, GMU, former Chief Scientist, US Air Force)

2. Towards a Theory of Requirements Negotiation (Fredrik Andersson)

3. Exploration of research methods for systems engineering and engineering design (Krister Sutinen)

4. Systems of Systems Modeling and Simulation (Robert Cranwell, James. E Cambell, Dennis J Anderson, Bruce M Thompson, Craig R Lawton, Sandia national Laboratories)

5. An application to Systems Engineering of a Framework of General Schemas Theory (Kent Palmer, Raytheon)

Track 2.3 SE in Collaborative Engineering Environments and Extended Enterprise Systems

1. System of Systems Acquisition and Collaborative Engineering Environments (Ave K. Kludze, JR, NASA Langley Research Center)

2. Conceptual Framework and Levels of Abstraction for a Complex Large-Scale System (Mary J Simpson)

3. Systems Engineering Approach to Model the US Ports and their Infrastructure as Subsystems of the Extended Enterprise System (Susan Vandiver et al., Southern Methodist University)

4. Reducing and Managing Complexity by Changing the Boundaries of the System(Joseph E. Kasser, University of South Australia)

5. Systems Methodology- Development and Application ( Derek Hitchins, UK)

6. Analysis of Enterprise Information Security: Towards an Architecture Theory Diagram (Erik Johansson, Industrial Information and Control Systems, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

 

Track 2.4 Case Studies in Systems Engineering

1. Introducing Aspects of Systems Engineering to Freshman Engineering Students (Moti Frank, Senior Lecturer, Holon Academic Institute of Technology)

2. A SOSE Checklist and Mitigation List Applied to Three Case Studies (Patrick D. Allen, General Dynamics, General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems)

3. DODAF Experience - Lessons Learned, and “What do I do with it now that I have it ? (Scot French, Senior Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc)

4. International Space Station restructure for C4ISR Architectures – A Structure Analysis Approach (Ahmad Sleiman, Lead System Engineer, Boeing Huntsville)

5. Command & Control Test Development and Verification Methodology Change Management (Katherine L. Clinton)

 

 

 

Dinner Keynote Speaker - Vice Admiral Joe Dyer, (US Navy, Retired), Executive Vice President and GM, iROBOT Systems Engineering Challenges Today and in the Future: Some Perspectives from Robots to Manned Space Flight

Track 2.5 Doctoral Research in Systems Engineering

1. Enablers and Barriers to Systems Thinking Development: Results of a Qualitative and Quantitative Study (Heidi L.Davidz Doctoral Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

2. Taxonomy of Systems-of-Systems (James Gideon, University of Missouri-Rolla)

3. A Generic, Adaptive Systems Engineering Information Model ( Joseph Simpson, PhD Candidate, The Boeing Company, University of Missouri-Rolla)

4. A new Approach To The Analyses of Joint Battle space Digitization (Naif. M. Al- Duwaish, PhD student, Cranfield University [RMCS] )

5. A Method to Assess the Enterprise-wide IT Resources for Performance and Investment Justifications(Magnus Gammelgard and Asa Lindstrom, Royal Institute of Technology)

6. Component based planning of manufacturing plants (Peggy Näser, research associate and doctoral candidate, Chemnitz University of Technology)