Systems Engineering Seminar

Monday, February 3, 2025 - 1pm (ET)

Developing complex products often suffers high overrun costs and significant delays, especially in the aerospace industry, which calls for more adaptable designs. In addition, many products are not developed from scratch, instead are from modifying prior products, and may require modifications throughout the lifecycle. Breakthrough in dealing with these issues happened in early 2010s, and since then have been developed into a systematic discipline, Model-Based Adaptable/Adaptive Systems Engineering (ASE), with wide impacts including industrial adoptions. This lecture talks about the basic concepts, methods, tools, and processes in ASE during the past 15 years. Examples on aircraft, aircraft engine and HVAC system designs will be presented along with recent developments.

Biography:

Haifeng Zhu, Ph.D.,is the MBSE (Model-Based Systems Engineering) discipline leader in Boeing, electricals. He has 20 years of experience in multiple sectors mainly aerospace, with recognitions from industry, scientific communities, and government agencies. Dr. Zhu is a renowned expert in SE (Systems Engineering). His work has been collected in review papers and textbooks, including the INCOSE/IEEE jointly governed Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK), standard guideline to systems engineers. His work has been used in Pratt & Whitney’s F-35 engines, GTF engines, Boeing 777-8F aircraft, etc. and he is joining Artimes programs. The methods he developed have been used in real projects/programs, including as Boeing’s standard work guidelines to all divisions (both commercial and military), Raytheon mission systems, California precipitation systems, etc. He was invited by NASA to serve as distinguished panelist in RAMS 2020, and by Office of Undersecretary of Defense for closed-door meetings. He served as chair or co-chair on a number of major conferences in SE, such as IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering, Complex Adaptive Systems conference joined by INCOSE (to be held in MIT on March 2025), etc. He is also appointed as Associate Editor for prestigious SE journals, including the INCOSE Systems Engineering Journal and IEEE Systems Journal (2015-2024). He recently was awarded IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. The talk he will give will cover some of the major contents mentioned above.