REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR ATTENDANCE

ARMED FORCES SYSTEMS OF SYSTEMS ENGINEERING  EDUCATION NETWORK WORKSHOP

August 16-17, 2010

Venue:
The US Air Force Center for Systems Engineering
Building 646 at the Air Force Institute of Technology
2950 Hobson Way, WPAFB, OH 45433

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS AND PARTICIPATION

Co-Chair: Lt Col. J. Robert Wirthlin, Ph.D., AFIT, Ohio
Co-Chair: Mo Jamshidi, Ph.D., UT San Antonio, Texas
moj@wacong.org

Objective: This workshop will lay the foundation to form a network of system of systems engineering  education for the US Military and its future workforce via an exchange of ideas and brainstorming among scientists, engineers, professors, military personnel from all branches of the US Armed Forces as well as industry and other institutions.

The workshop is a result of a tele-conference which took place on February 26, 2010 in which scientists, officers and leaders from US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), Air Force Academy (AFA), Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), US Army (West Point), US Air Force for Systems Engineering, Colorado Tech (Colorado Springs), and the University of Texas, San Antonio (UTSA) determined a need and opportunity existed for the coordinated efforts among interested parties to increase the level of excellence in system of systems engineering  education.

Participants are needed to discuss the systems engineering programs of all branches of Armed Forces at the workshop and nominations and candidates are needed to give keynote speeches and take part in panel sessions.

Anticipated sessions are: 

• Current SE Programs of military graduate schools, such as AFIT, NPS, etc.
• Current SE Programs at USAFA, USNA, and West Point.
• Current SE Programs at select Civilian Universitites

Panel sessions will include:

• Industry’s view point of the future of System of Systems Engineering
• Proposed Armed Forces SoSEE Network (US-AF_Net)
• Relations with ABET, INCOSE and IEEE (accreditation and certifications)
• Others