ESD Professor Dan Frey

Co-Authors INCOSE Best Paper

July 22, 2005

Daniel D. Frey, Robert N. Noyce Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Systems, and Don Clausing, former Bernard M. Gordon Adjunct Professor of Engineering Innovation and Practice at MIT and Xerox Fellow in Competitive Product Development at MIT, co-authored an award-winning entry for the 15th Annual International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) symposium, held July 10-15 in Rochester, NY.

Their effort, which won a best paper award in the area of Systems Engineering Practice and Improvement, was entitled "Four Strategies for Reliability: Improving Robustness to One-sided Failure Modes.”

"I'm delighted that INCOSE chose our paper for this recognition,” said Frey. “This paper is about how system reliability can be improved through better problem representation and concept design. I feel strongly about this topic and it's great that INCOSE is encouraging work along these lines."

A paper extending this work is scheduled for publication in the INCOSE journal "Systems Engineering" in the August, 2005 edition.