EAGER/Collaborative Research: Lectures for Foundations in Systems Engineering

EAGER/协作研究：系统工程基础讲座

• 批准号: 1644991
• 负责人: Ali Abbas
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: University of Southern California
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-01 至 2021-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1644991&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Collaborative; Research; Lectures; Foundations

The objective of this EArly-concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) collaborative project is to create a series of educational videos on foundational areas from which systems engineering theory will be able to draw. The field of systems engineering has developed largely as a process driven discipline, with much of the process lacking rigorous foundations. Across government agencies, industry, and academia, methods that are process-driven, heuristic in nature, and even inherently flawed, are used and taught routinely, without an understanding of their limitations, thereby contributing to significant cost and time overruns, delays, and cancellations of major engineering projects. One estimate is that the loss to the Federal Government resulting from current systems engineering processes exceeds $200 million per day. This educational outreach effort is aimed at introducing rigorous foundations of systems engineering to engineering students in order to influence practice as well as training of the future systems engineering workforce, and provide rigorous foundations for decision making in systems engineering. This project will promote the use of rigorous foundations in the development of a theory of systems engineering in ways that are accessible to a broad group of educators, researchers and practitioners. If the practice of systems engineering is to change, advances must take place to lay rigorous foundations for the methods, processes and tools for practitioners. These advances must then be taught in a way that is both rigorous and accessible to the community. Three overall areas are targeted in this EAGER: 1) Utility Theory; 2) Probability Theory; and 3) Flawed Methods. Two to three videos will be produced in each of these areas. All of these will be developed in the context of systems engineering needs and opportunities. As an introduction to these topics, one overview video will be produced to provide the context for why the videos are important to systems engineering education and practice. The adoption of rigorous mathematical theory in systems engineering will have significant ramifications for government agencies as well as the industries engaged in design and development of complex engineered systems. Promoting the implementation of well-vetted theories, methods and tools from other disciplines into the discipline of systems engineering through these videos has the potential for a significant impact. These videos will be developed so as to be useful in the classroom and for practitioners in order to increase the range of their impact.

这个早期概念探索性研究资助（EAGER）合作项目的目标是创建一系列关于基础领域的教育视频，系统工程理论将能够从中借鉴。系统工程领域的发展主要是作为一个过程驱动的学科，与许多过程缺乏严格的基础。在政府机构、工业界和学术界，程序驱动的、启发式的、甚至有内在缺陷的方法被常规地使用和教授，而不了解它们的局限性，从而导致重大工程项目的成本和时间超支、延误和取消。一项估计是，目前的系统工程过程给联邦政府造成的损失每天超过2亿美元。 这项教育推广工作的目的是介绍系统工程的严格基础，以工程专业的学生，以影响实践以及未来的系统工程队伍的培训，并提供系统工程决策的严格基础。该项目将促进在系统工程理论的发展中使用严格的基础，使广大的教育工作者、研究人员和从业人员都能使用。如果系统工程的实践要改变，必须取得进展，为从业者的方法，过程和工具奠定严格的基础。这些进步必须以一种既严格又便于社区使用的方式教授。EAGER针对三个整体领域：1）效用理论; 2）概率论; 3）有缺陷的方法。将在每个领域制作两至三个录像。所有这些都将在系统工程需求和机会的背景下开发。作为对这些主题的介绍，将制作一个概述视频，以说明为什么视频对系统工程教育和实践很重要。在系统工程中采用严格的数学理论将对政府机构以及从事复杂工程系统设计和开发的行业产生重大影响。 通过这些视频，促进其他学科经过严格审查的理论、方法和工具在系统工程学科中的实施，有可能产生重大影响。将制作这些录像，使其在课堂上和从业人员中有用，以扩大其影响范围。

项目成果

On the Use of Utility Theory in Engineering Design

论效用理论在工程设计中的运用

• DOI: 10.1109/jsyst.2016.2602562
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: IEEE Systems Journal
• 影响因子: 4.4
• 作者: Abbas, Ali E.;Cadenbach, Andrea H.
• 通讯作者: Cadenbach, Andrea H.