MIT
Receives Three out of Six INCOSE Best
Paper Awards
ESD
takes active role in conference, professional
society
August
13, 2004
ESD
professors captured three out of six
Best Paper Awards at the 2004 Annual
International Symposium of the International
Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)
held June 21-24 in Toulouse, France.
INCOSE is the international professional
society for systems engineering, with
over 5000 members from around the
globe.
ESD
Professor Oli
de Weck won the best paper award
in the Modeling and Tools category
for a paper co-authored with M.B.
Jones, "Isoperformance:
Analysis and Design of Complex Systems
with Known or Desired Outcomes."
With
ESD Professor Chris
Magee, de Weck won a second best
paper award at the same conference
in the Education and Research category
for a paper entitled "Complex
Systems Classification."
ESD
Professor Nancy
Leveson’s student, Nick
Dulac, won the INCOSE Best Student
Paper Award at the INCOSE International
Systems Engineering Conference in
June 2004 for "An Approach to
Design of Complex Systems,”
which she co-authored.
“Receiving
three out of six best paper awards
at the INCOSE 2004 conference is a
very significant event for MIT and
ESD, because it establishes us as
a leader in the field of Systems Research
and demonstrates our contributions
to this emerging community,”
noted de Weck. “It is also significant
because the awards were selected by
independent technical committees,
which shows our degree of competitiveness
in multiple areas.”
“INCOSE'S
strength is in bringing together leading
complex system engineering practitioners
in a focused conference,” added
Magee. “There is a clear opportunity
for ESD to bring some academic strength
to this group and at the same time
increase and maintain our knowledge
of engineering practice.”
ESD
plays a significant leadership role
in INCOSE overall, as well as at the
conference. ESD Director Daniel Hastings
presented an overview of the ESD program
to the INCOSE Academic Council, which
comprised of academic leaders from
leading universities. Hastings is
also co-chair of the INCOSE Academic
Council.
ESD
Senior Lecturer Donna Rhodes presented
a talk on “Emerging Themes and
Concepts for Systems Engineering Education”
at the one day Academic Forum event,
and also presented on the INCOSE vision
at the plenary session. She is also
INCOSE’s director for strategic
planning.
ESD’s
Lean Aerospace Initiative held a panel
entitled “Lean Systems Engineering”,
moderated by Rhodes, with LAI researcher
Eric Rebentisch as panelist along
with three other members of the LAI’s
EdNet Systems Engineering Group.
Pat
Hale, Acting Director of the System
Design and Management Fellows Program
serves as INCOSE’s treasurer.
ESD
also hosted an exhibit showcasing
materials from all ESD programs and
research centers. ESD PhD students
Heidi Davidz, Adam Ross, and Troy
Downen staffed the booth and shared
information on ESD with many of the
over 800 conference attendees from
around the world.
"Attending
the INCOSE international symposium
was an excellent opportunity to see
the international view of
systems engineering,” said Davidz.
“ESD's involvement in INCOSE
enables students to develop an international
professional network. With a very
visible presence at the conference,
ESD has begun to show academic leadership
in this organization.”
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