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).
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