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This paper describes a program organized by the INCOSE Academic Council to determine future directions in systems engineering (SE) research. This program, consisting of three collaborative workshops, uses a framework coupling societal needs to systems challenges and then to gaps in the capabilities of SE, which inform the direction of future SE research. The results of the first workshop are presented including a description of the Grand Challenges in five selected areas, namely, societal needs, problem definitions, desired results, obstacles, and related research questions. This paper concludes with a summary and description of the future work for this program.
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The authors wish to thank INCOSE, the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC), and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for their support of this project. Particular thanks go to the keynote speakers: Kristen Baldwin, Dennis Buede, and Rick Adcock who provided inspiration to this first workshop. Finally, thanks to the attendees who provided the content for this report: Food and clean water (Ellie Gianni, John Gill, Susan Plano-Faber, Nazanin Sharifi, and Timothy Sprock), Healthcare (Mimi Hailegiorghis, Ken Harmon, Duane Hybertson, Ronald Luman, and Conrad Tucker), Education (Dennis Buede, Jim Coolahan, Don Gelosh, Mike Pafford, and Shamsmaz Virani), and Security (Darryl Farber, David Flanigan, Scott Lucero, Laura Rogers, Loren Walker, Joseph Williams, and Harry Winsor).
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Wade, J., Adcock, R., McDermot, T., Strawser, L. (2018). Future Systems Engineering Research Directions. In: Madni, A., Boehm, B., Ghanem, R., Erwin, D., Wheaton, M. (eds) Disciplinary Convergence in Systems Engineering Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62217-0_81
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