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: 1645065
• 负责人: Eliot Winer
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Iowa State University
• 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 2020-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1645065&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.

这个探索性研究早期概念基金（EAGER）合作项目的目标是创建一系列关于系统工程理论能够借鉴的基础领域的教育视频。系统工程领域在很大程度上已经发展成为一个过程驱动的学科，许多过程缺乏严格的基础。在政府机构、工业和学术界，那些过程驱动的、启发式的，甚至本质上有缺陷的方法，在没有理解其局限性的情况下，被常规地使用和教授，从而导致重大工程项目的重大成本和时间超支、延迟和取消。据估计，目前的系统工程过程每天给联邦政府造成的损失超过2亿美元。这种教育拓展的努力旨在向工程专业的学生介绍系统工程的严格基础，以便影响实践以及对未来系统工程劳动力的培训，并为系统工程中的决策制定提供严格的基础。这个项目将促进在系统工程理论的发展中使用严格的基础，这种方法对广泛的教育工作者、研究人员和实践者群体都是可访问的。如果系统工程的实践要改变，那么必须为实践者的方法、过程和工具奠定严格的基础。然后，这些进步必须以一种既严格又能为社区所接受的方式进行教授。在这个热切的三个整体领域的目标：1)效用理论；2)概率论；3)有缺陷的方法。每个地区将制作两至三个录象带。所有这些都将在系统工程需求和机会的背景下发展。作为对这些主题的介绍，我们将制作一个概述视频，以提供为什么这些视频对系统工程教育和实践很重要的背景。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，促进其他学科中经过充分审查的理论、方法和工具在系统工程学科中的应用，可能会产生重大影响。将制作这些录象带，以便在课堂上和对从业人员有用，以扩大其影响的范围。