Boeing engineer Bill Harkness will be aligning his upcoming dissertation with the Systems Engineering Research Center to enhance research collaboration at the Commercial Airplanes Product Development group.

The Systems Engineering Research Center, or SERC, is a doctoral program that works collaboratively with 23 universities and more than 300 researchers across the United States. It enables doctoral systems engineers to develop their abilities, establish working relationships with mentors and conduct research in an environment that is beneficial to government, industry and academia.

The Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC), a University-Affiliated Research Center, was formed in 2008 by the U.S. Department of Defense as a strategic asset. Managed by Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ, the SERC is composed of 23 Collaborator Universities working together to fulfill the SERC’s vision of being the Networked National Resource to further systems research and its impact on issues of national and global significance.

The SERC is pleased to provide the SERC Annual Report for 2012.   This has been and exciting and fruitful year.  Having refined and solidified our vision in 2011, we have enthusiastically embraced it throughout our activities, and are making strides toward becoming the Systems Research and Impact Network.  We have expanded our collaborator community, worked diligently to ensure future impact by broadening our sponsor base and above all, are continually tackling the systems problems brought to us by our sponsors.  The 2012 annual report provides a window into the wide variety of SERC research projects that are already transitioning, work that is underway and concepts just initiated in the pipeline…(More)

SERC Lead Major Effort to Formalize Systems Engineering Knowledge

BKCASE Project Takes 2012 INCOSE Product of the Year Award

From spacecraft design to software integration, many engineering projects today have unprecedented levels of complexity due to increases in size and scope, amount of data, and number of disciplines involved. There is a great need in industry for systems engineers who have a breadth of engineering expertise and can oversee multifaceted, interdisciplinary projects.

The Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) held the SERC Sponsor Research Review on November 13, 2012, at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.  This 4th annual event followed a new format than previous years, consisting of a one-day sponsor review and a technical program in Spring 2013 linked with the Conference on Systems Engineering Research (CSER).

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