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The SERC received two awards at the 31st Annual INCOSE International Symposium, held online this year from July 17-22: the Best Theme Editors Award and the Best Article Award. The awards recognized the SERC’s curation of and contributions to the March 2020 issue of INSIGHT, the International Council of Systems Engineering’s (INCOSE) magazine, themed AI and Systems Engineering and featuring exclusively content from SERC-affiliated contributors.

SERC UPDATES | JUNE 2021 - A digest of the most recent news items and research updates related to the Systems Engineering Research Center.

On May 28, 2021, the Defense Acquisition University (DAU) awarded the research task “WRT-1043: DAU - Digital Engineering Simulation” to the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC). This is a brand new, year-long effort with potential for two additional years led by Principal Investigator Dr. Nicole Hutchison, Stevens Institute of Technology, alongside co-Principal Investigators Dr. Dinesh Verma, Stevens Institute of Technology, and Dr. Peter Beling, Virginia Tech.

On May 11-13th, 2021, the 18th Annual Acquisition Research Symposium was held, providing a virtual forum to present scholarly acquisition research, as well as for dialogue between scholars and acquisition policy-makers and practitioners. Research papers and presentations were given on recently completed and on-going Department of Defense and US Navy (DoD/DON)-sponsored projects at a variety of research institutions across the United States.

Christina L. Carmen, PhD, of The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), served as faculty advisor to a multidisciplinary team of Undergraduate (UG) engineering students that completed a project sponsored by the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM). The project was part of the students’ Capstone experience and provided the Naval Special Warfare Group (NSWG) a solution to a mission-focused problem: how to maximize the use and organization of the interior space of its SEAL Delivery Vehicle Dry Combat Submersible (DCS). The students involved were: Nadia Alexander (Team Lead); Jay Hayman (Manufacturing Lead); Philip Tegan Ruffalo (CAD Lead); Nicholas Shelton (Team Liaison and Test/Product Analysis Lead); Kayli Wood (Cost Lead); and Christopher Smith (Research Lead).

On Wednesday, May 5, 2021, the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) conducted an online workshop focused on their Integrated Architecture Framework. Tom McDermott, Deputy Director of SERC, and William Rouse, Senior Fellow at the McCourt School of Public Policy, were part of an academic advisory team and provided technical support with use of the newer SystemiTool that facilitated the workshop’s collaborative structure.

The Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK) just reached 5 million pageviews since its first appearance in September 2012.

Wiley and INCOSE have collaborated to publish a special edition of the journal Systems Engineering, Best Papers of 2019

As we are all more than a year into this global pandemic, we are interested in learning your thoughts on the impact onto the field of Systems Engineering and you as a professional at this point in time. The overall survey results will provide critical insights into the impact of COVID-19 on the broader systems engineering community.

New center led by Stevens will support the transformation of the defense acquisition system to help the DoD respond to the rapid technological advancements critical to today’s warfighter

The report of the AI4SE & SE4AI Workshop, which was a two-day virtual event that took place at the end of October 2020, has been released. The workshop gathered SE thought leaders already in the AI space, to discuss the workshop main objective: how to define relevant SE and AI challenges, areas of exploration and methodologies to use, and ways in which to collaborate and research in the upcoming years.

The Lifecycle Modeling Language is proud to announce the first annual Model-Based Systems Engineering Conference. Join other professionals and government officials, interested in expanding systems engineering to a data-driven model-based solution as well as academics that would like to stay up to date in the current usage of MBSE and/or would like to use it in the classroom.