Systems engineering rigor has been used successfully in the aerospace and defense industries where the development cycles tend to be rather long. However, the practice of using a traditional waterfall, spiral or V-model systems engineering life cycle framework, in other industries brings into...
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority (WMATA) is a transportation enterprise servicing Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia and Southern Maryland. Commuting challenges and overall population growth has increased the overcrowding on the Metrorail, especially in the downtown...
Engineering managers involved in product development and manufacturing are responsible for proposing and developing ideas and concepts that will benefit new or existing products and processes. Improved methods are required to identify, prioritize, and integrate the opinions, ideas, and concepts...
The adoption of new technologies increases the pace of innovation and at the same time presents new challenges to forecasting demand for new products with an evolving set of decision variables. Engineering managers often face this problem early-on in the new product development process. The...
Maturing new technologies through the systems engineering lifecycle has been a perpetual issue for the U.S. systems engineering community. Although there are many reasons why technologies fail to mature, this study examines the perceptions of why technologies succeed. To examine these...
There is a current need to study and understand the behaviors and characteristics of systems of systems. Studying a single system is relatively straightforward when compared to studying a system of systems. A system of systems has unique characteristics that distinguish it from a single system....
Abstract of PraxisUsing Design of Experiment Methods and Multiple Linear Regression to Develop a System-Wide Traffic Fatality and Severe-Injury Prediction ModelMillions of crashes involving a severe injury or fatality occur in traffic systems each year. Despite this staggering number, there are...
Despite being a mandated requirement, the U.S. Government Accountability Office found a lack of guidance across the Department of Defense for conducting analysis of alternatives which contributed to significant cost, schedule, and performance problems for Defense acquisition programs. In 2008...