CAREER: Accidental Knowledge: Using Accidents and other Systems Engineering Failures to Inform Research and Education in Systems Engineering

职业：意外知识：利用事故和其他系统工程故障为系统工程的研究和教育提供信息

• 批准号: 1350589
• 负责人: Karen Marais
• 金额: $ 40.8万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1350589&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Accidental; Knowledge; Using; Accidents

The objective of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program research project is to explore the causes of systems engineering failures in large projects in a three-step process: (1) Detailed analysis of past system engineering failures to identify deficiencies in systems engineering; (2) Investigations of systems engineering in practice at industry and government organizations to challenge or validate these findings; and (3) Use of these findings to improve systems engineering curricula and delivery methods. Despite best efforts, projects fail in ways that systems engineering is intended to prevent. The rate of failures shows no sign of decreasing. Therefore, current approaches based on methods, tools and processes are not working. We need to do more than propose better processes -- we need a foundational basis that is informative and can be adapted to a broad range of circumstances and industries, such as mining, oil and gas, chemical, and aerospace, to guide design and operational choices that prevent or mitigate failures.If successful, this research will contribute to reducing failures of engineering projects and form the basis for sound, data-informed improvments to the fundamentals of systems engineering. The educational component of this work combines research-based course improvements with rigorous assessments of actual student learning (as opposed to self-reported data) across a longitudinal set of courses. The findings will be used to improve the systems engineering curricula and delivery methods.

这个教师早期职业发展（CAREER）计划研究项目的目标是探索系统工程失败的原因在大型项目中的三个步骤的过程：（1）过去的系统工程失败的详细分析，以确定系统工程的缺陷;（2）在工业和政府组织的系统工程实践的调查，以挑战或验证这些发现;（3）利用这些发现改进系统工程课程和教学方法。 尽管尽了最大的努力，项目失败的方式，系统工程是为了防止。 失败率没有下降的迹象。因此，目前基于方法、工具和进程的办法不起作用。我们需要做的不仅仅是提出更好的流程-我们需要一个信息丰富的基础，可以适应广泛的环境和行业，如采矿，石油和天然气，化学和航空航天，以指导设计和操作选择，防止或减轻失败。如果成功，这项研究将有助于减少工程项目的失败，并形成健全的基础，对系统工程基础的数据化改进。这项工作的教育部分结合了基于研究的课程改进与严格的评估实际学生的学习（而不是自我报告的数据）在纵向设置的课程。调查结果将用于改进系统工程课程和交付方法。