Resources | Symposium 2004

 

Preliminary Session Plan for March 31, 2004 Engineering Systems Symposium Cambridge Marriott 2 Cambridge Center (Broadway & 3rd Street) Cambridge, MA 02142 Rooms in Cambridge Marriott to be assigned 8:30 – 10:00 am   Session I – Socio-technical (Manuel Heitor, chair)     Engineering systems as socio-technical systems Peter Kroes, Delft The New Co-Evolution of Engineering Systems and the Social Sciences Robert Axtell, Brookings Institution The Concept of the “CLIOS Process”: Integrating the Study of Physical and Policy Systems Using Mexico City as an Example Rebecca Dodder, Joseph Sussman and Joshua McConnell, MIT The Impact of Instability on Complex Social and Technical Systems Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld and Eric Rebentisch, MIT Systems Development Without “Organization”: Some Preliminary Views on Open Source Software Development Karim Lakhani, MIT   Session II– Aerospace (Alexander Levis, chair)     System of Systems: An Introduction of Purdue University Schools of Engineering’s Signature Area William Crossley, Purdue A Framework for Understanding Uncertainty and its Mitigation and Exploitation in Complex Systems Daniel Hastings and Hugh McManus, MIT Calculations of Flexibility in Space Systems Roshanak Nilchiani, Daniel Hastings and Carole Joppin, MIT Engineering Systems: An Aircraft Perspective Earll Murman and Thomas Allen, MIT System Engineering Approach to Development of C2I Systems in the Knowledge-Centric Age Yeoh Lean-Weng and Chew Lock-Pin, Defence Science and Technology Agency, Singapore   Session III – Education (Richard Larson, chair)     A Graduate Program in Systems and Entrepreneurial Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Deborah Thurston and Mark Spong, U Ill A Systems Approach to Interdisciplinary Professional Education S. Jack Hu, U Mich A gaming-simulation to teach students the interrelation of substantial and procedural aspects of system design processes W. Bockstael-Blok, I. Mayer and E.Valentin, Delft The Civil Engineering Systems Course at Georgia Institute of Technology Adjo Amekudzi and Michael Meyer, Georgia Tech Systems Engineering at Cornell Linda Nozick, Cornell 10:00 – 10:30 am Break 10:30 am– 12:00 pm   Session IV – Risk/Uncertainty (Richard de Neufville, chair)     Designing Real options in projects: Theoretical framework and application in telecom hotel development Konstantinos Kalligeros, MIT Handling Uncertainty in Large Scale Systems with Certainty and Integrity Shinya Kikuchi and Vijay Perrincherry, U Delaware The Role of Postmarket Surveillance in the Medical Device Risk Management System Henry Piehler, CMU and Allen Hughes, George Mason Univ. An Approach to Technology Risk Management Ricardo Valerdi, USC and Ron Kohl, R.J.Kohl and Assoc. Managing Uncertainty and Risk in the Supply Chain Using Financial Engineering Methods David Simchi-Levi, MIT   Session V – Sustainability /Open Systems (Henk Sol, chair)     Regional Strategic Transportation Planning as a CLIOS Joseph Sussman and Sgouris Sigouridis, MIT Engaging Stakeholders in Engineering Systems Representation and Modeling Ali Mostashari and Joseph Sussman, MIT The Role of a Regional Architecture in the Management of the Mexico City Metropolitan Area Transportation System Ali Mostashari, MIT Building Human Centered Systems Based on Communication Infrastructures: Evidence from Portugal José Moutinho and Manuel Heitor, Technical Univ, Lisbon Valuing Building-Integrated Photovoltaics: A Comparative Analysis Maria Rodrigues and Manuel Heitor, Technical Univ, Lisbon   Session VI – System Architecture (Dan Settles, chair)     Physical Limits to Modularity Daniel Whitney, MIT A Preliminary Mathematical Framework for Analyzing Critical Issues in Engineering Systems Peter Chen, LSU Enterprise Systems Architecting: Emerging Art and Science within Engineering Systems Deborah Nightingale and Donna Rhodes, MIT System Architecture and Public Policy: How the Internet’s Design Impacts the Policy Process Hans Klein, Georgia Tech Leading Systems Architects: Diverse Problems and Common Patterns John Dickmann, MIT 12:00 – 1:00 pm Lunch 1:00 – 2:30 pm   Session VII – Safety/Enterprises (Thomas Allen, chair)     Beyond Normal Accidents and High Reliability Organisations: Lessons from the Space Shuttle Karla Marais, Nicholas Dulac and Nancy Leveson, MIT Effectively Addressing NASA’s Organizational and Safety Culture: Insights from Systems Safety and Engineering Systems Nancy Leveson, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Betty Barrett, Alexander Brown, John Carroll, Nicolas Dulac, Lydia Fraile, Karen Marais, MIT An Approach to Designing Sustainable Enterprise Systems Janet Allen and Farrokh Mistree, Georgia Tech Managing IT Investment for Aircraft Sustainment Michael MacDonnell, University College, Dublin   Session VIII – Infrastructures (Fred Moavenzadeh, chair)     Greening Electricity Infrastructures: increasing system complexity, reliability and sustainability Peter Jansson, Rowan Univ. and Richard Michelfelder, Rutgers Univ Modeling Treatment Decisions, Costs, and Risk Implications of Regulations for the US Water Supply Industry Patrick Gurian, U Texas El Paso, Mitchell Small, CMU, John Lockwood, RAND, and Mark Schervich, CMU Future Electricity Supplies: Redefining Efficiency from a Systems Perspective Stephen Connors, Katherine Martin, Michael Adams and Edward Kern, MIT Toward a Multi-Layered Architecture of Large-Scale Complex Systems: The Problem of Reliable and Efficient Man-Made Infrastructures Marija Ilic, CMU A Model of the Rise and Fall of Transportation Networks David Levinson and Lei Zhang, U Minnesota   Session IX – Theory/Philosophy (Daniel Whitney, chair)     The Design of Innovating Machines: A Fundamental Discipline for a Postmodern Systems Engineering David Goldberg, U Illinois Dynamic Flows on Competitive Service Networks Terry Friesz, Reetabrata Mookhejee, Srinivas Peeta, and Pengcheng Zhang, Purdue An Agent Based Approach to Modeling the Behavior of Civil Infrastructure Systems Kristen Bernhardt, Lafayette College and Sue McNeil, U Illinois at Chicago Managing engineering complexity – a historical perspective Ulrich Wengenroth, MIT Three Design Methodologies, their Associated Organizational Structures and their Relationship to Various Fields Joel Moses, MIT 2:30 – 3:00 pm Break 3:00 – 4:30 pm   Session X– Systems Engineering (Heinz Stoewer, chair)     The Case for Evolving Systems Engineering as a Field within Engineering Systems Donna Rhodes and Daniel Hastings, MIT To Reduce or to Extend a Complex Engineering System Design Lifetime? What is at Stake and How to Resolve the Dilemma Joseph Saleh, Juan Torres-Padilla, Daniel Hastings and Dava Newman, MIT An Innovative Approach to Risk Management on Large Scale Defense Programs as Demonstrated by the Development of the Test X-Band Radar (TXBR) IMU/GPS Testbed Cheryl Ryan, Saowalek Saeteng, and Kerry Wagner, Raytheon   Session XI – Design/Education (Chris Magee, chair)     Evaluating Robust Design Methods Using a Model of Interactions in Complex Systems Daniel Frey and Xiang Li, MIT Major Challenges to Engineering Education for Sustainable Development: What has to change to make it creative, effective, and acceptable to the established disciplines Nicholas Ashford, MIT Findings from a Web-Based Survey of Degree Programs in Engineering Systems Christine Ng, MIT 4:30 – 5:00 pm   Session XII - Summary Comments (Daniel Roos, chair)