Workshop: Industry Listening Workshop Series on Systems Engineering

系统工程主要是一种行业驱动的活动，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。该项目支持一系列的三个研讨会，致力于确定系统工程的基础研究挑战。虽然最近有许多由NSF支持的与系统工程基础研究相关的研讨会，但学术界一直在努力确定将从根本上改善系统工程过程的研究方向。是什么让这个研讨会的不同和有价值的是，它的重点是直接从行业参与者获得输入。重要的是要注意，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，学术界可以通过这些讲习班等机制了解这一领域的需求和机会，这些机制对于提出假设和增进知识至关重要。知识价值在于潜在的收集从业者社区的角度来看，在设计和管理复杂的系统，需要基础研究来克服的挑战。这个系列研讨会的目的是确定和阐明从业者社区所面临的基本挑战。 我们将于2020年初举办两场“从业者聆听工作坊”，以收集业界持份者的意见。研讨会将根据预先确定的问题进行调查，并由行业参与者进行公开讨论。讲习班组织者将汇总和综合最初讲习班的意见，为优先的基础研究议程提出建议。最后一次“反馈”研讨会将于2020年下半年举行，组织者将介绍并征求有关研究议程的反馈。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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.