| Edward
F. Crawley
Professor of Aeronautics
and Astronautics and Engineering Systems
Ford Professor of Engineering
Dr. Crawley received an Sc.D.
in Aerospace Structures from MIT in 1981. His early research
interests centered on structural dynamics, aeroelasticity,
and the development of actively controlled and intelligent
structures. Recently, Dr. Crawley’s research has focused
on the domain of the architecture and design of complex
systems.
Dr. Crawley’s work spans
a range from the development of underlying theory, typified
by a recent paper on the Algebra of Systems, to the development
of methods and tools, such as Object Process Networks. It
extends as far as a consulting role on the design of actual
systems. Currently he is engaged on both NASA and oil exploration
system designs.
From 2003 to 2006 he served as
the Executive Director of the Cambridge – MIT Institute,
a joint venture, funded by the British government and industry,
with a mission to understand and generalize how universities
act as engines of innovation and economic growth. For the
previous seven years, he served as the Department Head of
Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, leading the strategic
realignment of the department.
Dr. Crawley was the founding
co-director of the System
Design and Management Program, which leads to a degree
jointly offered by the School of Engineering and Sloan School
of Management at MIT. He is the founding co-director of
an international collaboration on the reform of engineering
education, and the lead author of the book, Rethinking
Engineering Education, the CDIO Approach.
Dr. Crawley is a Fellow of the
AIAA and the Royal Aeronautical Society (UK), and is a member
of three national academies of engineering: the Royal Swedish
Academy of Engineering Science, the (UK) Royal Academy of
Engineering, and the US National Academy of Engineering.
He is the author of numerous journal publications in the
AIAA Journal, the ASME Journal, the Journal
of Composite Materials, and Acta Astronautica.
In his outreach and public
service, Dr. Crawley was chairman of the NASA Technology
and Commercialization Advisory Committee, and was a member
of the NASA Advisory Committee. He holds the NASA Public
Service Medal. In 1993 was a member of the Presidential
Advisory Committee on the Space Station Redesign. He is
conversant in Russian, and has spent time as a visitor at
the Moscow Aviation Institute, the Beijing University of
Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University and Cambridge
University. He was a finalist in the NASA Astronaut selection
in 1980, is an active pilot, and was the 1990, 1995 and
2005 Northeast Regional Soaring champion. In 2004 he received
the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award of the Boy Scouts of
America.
Updated June 2007
News and announcements:
Ed Crawley quoted
in article about space exploration plan (New Scientist
- September 16, 2009)
Also in: BusinessWeek
and Sacramento
Bee
Ed
Crawley and human space flight panel (The New York Times
- August 5, 2009) Also: The
Huffington Post - August 13, 2009
Ed
Crawley quoted in article about recommendations of human
spaceflight program panel (The New York Times - July
30, 2009); also an article in New
Scientist
Ed Crawley quoted in New York
Times article on the space program “The
Fight Over NASA’s Future” New York Times
- December 29, 2008
ESD
Prof. Ed Crawley and Prof. Joel Schindall to Direct Gordon
Leadership Program - November 9, 2007
Profs.
Ed Crawley and Joel Schindall help establish new program
for engineering leaders - July 27, 2007
Complex Systems publishes “Using
Shape Grammar to Derive Cellular Automata Rule Patterns"
(.pdf) co-authored by ESD Ph.D. student Tom
Speller, Dr. Dan Whitney,
Prof. Ed Crawley - July 11, 2007
Rhodes,
Frey Honored at INCOSE Symposium ESD plays major role in
event - July 22, 2005
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