Workshop: Industry Listening Workshop Series on Systems Engineering

系统工程主要是由行业驱动的活动，并且行业认识到改进设计和管理大型、复杂系统开发活动的方法的价值。该项目支持一系列三个研讨会，致力于确定系统工程中的基础研究挑战。虽然最近有许多由NSF支持的与系统工程基础研究有关的研讨会，但学术界一直在努力确定将从根本上改进系统工程过程的研究方向。这次研讨会的不同之处和宝贵之处在于，它专注于直接从行业参与者那里获得意见。值得注意的是，系统工程不是学者可以在实验室环境中观察到的自然现象。因此，像这些研讨会这样的机制，学术界可以通过这些机制了解该领域的需求和机会，对于假设的产生和知识的发展至关重要。知识的价值在于有可能收集从业者社区对设计和管理复杂系统的挑战的看法，这些挑战需要基础研究来克服。本系列研讨会旨在识别和阐明从业者社区面临的根本挑战。两个“从业者听力工作坊”将于2020年初举行，以征求业界利益攸关方的意见。研讨会将包括基于预先确定的问题的询问和由行业参与者领导的公开讨论。研讨会组织者将汇总和综合最初研讨会的观察结果，以提出优先基础研究议程的建议。最后的“反馈”研讨会将于2020年下半年举行，在此期间，组织者将介绍并征求对研究议程的反馈。最初研讨会的参与者将被邀请参加反馈研讨会。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Systems Engineering is primarily an industry-driven activity, and industry recognizes the value of improving the methods for designing and managing large, complex systems development activities. This project supports a series of three workshops devoted to identifying fundamental research challenges in systems engineering. While there have been numerous recent workshops supported by NSF related to fundamental research in systems engineering, the academic community has struggled to identify research directions that will fundamentally improve systems engineering processes. What makes this workshop different and valuable is that it is focused on obtaining input directly from industry participants. It is important to note that systems engineering is not a natural phenomenon that academics can observe in a laboratory setting. Therefore, mechanisms such as these workshops, through which academia can learn about the needs and opportunities in the area, are crucially important to hypothesis generation and the advancement of knowledge. Intellectual merit lies in the potential to collect practitioner community perspective regarding the challenges in designing and managing complex systems that require fundamental research to overcome.This workshop series is designed to identify and articulate fundamental challenges faced by the practitioner community. Two "practitioner listening workshops" will be held in early 2020 to elicit input from industry stakeholders. The workshops will feature a mix of inquiry based on predetermined questions and open discussions led by industry participants. Workshop organizers will aggregate and synthesize observations from the initial workshops to produce a recommendation for a prioritized fundamental research agenda. A final "feedback" workshop will be held in the second half of 2020 during which organizers will present and solicit feedback about the research agenda. Participants of the original workshops will be invited to participate in the feedback workshop.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.