ESD Teaching Staff, Ph.D. Candidates Speak at INCOSE/ICSE Conference

By Lois Slavin, ESD Communications – October 21, 2004

Several members of the ESD Community presented papers at the International Council of Systems Engineering (ICSE) and INCOSE 2004 conference held September 15-16 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The conference theme was “Synergy between Systems Engineering and Project Management,” and focused on understanding and applying the strengths of combining systems engineering and project management for challenging projects that involve complex systems. 

ESD representatives included:

• Keynote speaker Dr. Donna Rhodes, ESD Senior Lecturer. The title of her presentation was "Partnerships for Realizing 21st Century Systems.”
• SDM graduate Prithviraj Banerjee, who spoke on "Flexibility Strategy – Valuing Flexible Product Options," which is extracted from his thesis research. (Research supervised by Professor Olivier de Weck.)
• ESD Ph.D. candidate Heidi Davidz, who spoke on "Enablers, Barriers, and Precursors to Systems Thinking Development: The Urgent Need for More Information." (Research supervised by Dr. Deborah Nightingale (Chair), Dr. Thomas Allen, Dr. Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld , Dr. Eric Rebentisch, and Dr. Donna Rhodes.
• ESD Ph.D. candidate Troy Downen, who presented a paper entitled “A Mathematical Multi-Attribute Value Model for the Front-End Product Development Process” (Research supervised by Profs. Debbie Nightingale, Olivier de Weck, and Chris Magee).