Presentations Theme 1 – Context and Systems Needs

  1. From stand-alone products to ecosystems of digital propositions – Henk van Houten, Chair of the Board of the Netherlands National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the Netherlands
  2. Effective Regulation of complex, technologically intensive Systems: Lessons from the U.S. Commercial Nuclear Power Industry – Admiral James O. Ellis, Annenberg, Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institution at Stanford University, Board Member US National Academy of Engineering, former Board Member Lockheed Martin Corporation, USA
  3. The Grand and the Grind: Engaging with Wicked Challenges – Guru Madhavan, Norman R. Augustine Senior Scholar and Senior Director of Programs, National Academy of Engineering, USA

Presentations Theme 2 – System Workforce Needs & Sustainment

  1. System Competencies, Key to our Business Success – Jan van Vlerken, Senior Vice President System Engineering, ASML, the Netherlands
  2. System Competencies and Technology Development for advanced Machine Products – Heiko Schröder, Head of R&D Agile Management, TRUMPF Machinery SE, Germany
  3. Airbus Learning and Sustainment Path for Systems Architecting and Engineering Competencies –  Gianluca Marsiglia, Systems Engineering Faculty Lead, Airbus Defence and Space, Europe
  4. Value of Systems Competencies and how to nurture this Capability in View of global Competition – Kerry Lunney, Head of Discipline Systems Architecture & Engineering, Director Safety Assurance & Product HSE, Chief Engineer, Thales Australia
  5. How to develop and sustain System Competencies in a Health Technology Company – Ozgur Butun, Systems Engineering Capabilities Leader, Philips, the Netherlands
  6. Systems and Software – a most needed Synergy – Paul Nielsen, Director and CEO of Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, USA
  7. SAAB Approach to hiring, training and retaining the Company’s System Competencies – Annika Meijer, Head of Design Organization & Deputy Head of Business Unit Gripen, Sweden
  8. System Competencies, a continuous learning Trajectory – Joseph Duncan, Vice President Engineering, OHB Systems, Germany
  9. The essential Needs and Contributions of System Competences in the Telecom Industry – Jean-Pierre Choffray, Vice-President Systems Engineering, Société Européenne des Satellites, SES, Luxembourg

Presentations Theme 3 – System Engineers, a life-long Trajectory

  1. An example of how to stimulate Systems Thinking in Schools, the TUD VSV Schoolsat example – Jasmijn Tromp, Master student, VSV Leonardo da Vinci Association, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
  2. MIT Systems Engineering Education – Bryan Moser, Academic Director System Design and Management program (MIT); Visiting Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology; President, International Society of Transdisciplinary Engineering (ISTE), USA
  3. Education of multi-disciplinary System Engineers in the University of New South Wales – Emma Sparks, Rector and Dean, University of New South Wales, Australia
  4. Uncertainty and Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Risk Analysis and Risk Management Education – Marie-Elisabeth Paté-Cornell, Burt and Deedee McMurtry Professor, Stanford School of Engineering, USA
  5. Systems Education at TU Twente – Maarten Bonnema, Full Professor in Systems Engineering & Multidisciplinary Design, the Netherlands
  6. Present Systems Status and future Plans at Eindhoven University of Technology – Paul Koenraad, Dean of the Graduate School and Director of the Stan Ackermans Institute, the Netherlands
  7. An Interfaculty Systems Engineering Platform – Eberhard Gill, Chair Space Systems Engineering, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
  8. MIT System Design and Management postgraduate Program – Bryan Moser, Academic Director System Design and Management program (MIT), Visiting Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, President, International Society of Transdisciplinary Engineering (ISTE), USA
  9. System Education and Sustainment Approach in Japan – Seiko Shirasaka, Dean, Keio University, Japan
  10. Designing Capstones for teaching Systems Engineering in a Hands on Way – Alessandro Golkar, TU Munich, Germany

Presentations Theme 4 – System Workforce Needs, Roles & Contributions

  1. System Engineers: Don’t leave Home (or Earth) without them – Larry D. James, Lt Gen USAF (Ret), former Deputy Director and COO NASA JPL/Caltech, USA; currently Strategic Advisor to the SmartSat Cooperative Research Center, Australia’s Space Research Organization; Professor of Space Innovation at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
  2. Developments in Systems Engineering in the European Space Agency – Dietmar Pilz, Director of Technology, Engineering and Quality, Head of the European Space Research and Technology Centre, ESTEC, ESA, Europe
  3. Dutch Initiative for Advancing Systems Engineering, the DASE Program as part of the Dutch NEXTGEN Hightech Program – Joris van den Aker, Competence Development Manager, TNO-ESI, the Netherlands

Presentations Theme 5 – System Needs and Opportunities

  1. Introduction AIAA – Daniel Hastings, President, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, AIAA, Interim Vice Chancellor, MIT, USA
  2. Introduction INCOSE – Ralf Hartmann, President, International Council on Systems Engineering, INCOSE, USA
  3. Introduction PMI – Lysan Drabon, Regional Managing Director Europe, Project Management Institute, USA

Special session ‘How can Artificial Intelligence enhance Systems Engineering?’

Background information

Artificial Intelligence is expected to have a significant impact on how engineering of complex products will be done in the future. This impact will affect all types of stakeholders, show-up across all domains of engineering, all phases of the life cycle, involving a wide range of technologies. Thus, potential areas within Systems Engineering need to be identified where Artificial Intelligence can have significant impact on how Systems Engineering is done or will be done in the future, its opportunities, threats and possible paradigm changes.

On 9th October 2024, the Special Session “How can Artificial Intelligence enhance Systems Engineering?” was held at Delft University of Technology associated to the International Summit on “Building the Systems Workforce of the Future”. It was organized by the chairs Paul Nielsen (Carnegie Mellon University) and Eberhard Gill (Delft University of Technology) and had contributions from 13 international speakers, representatives of a broad range of companies, universities, agencies and professional organisations.

The session introduced fundamental questions (e.g. considering formalisms as chemical reactions as programming languages), as well as technology advances (e.g. in the use of Large Language Models), and use cases (e.g. to increase sovereign capabilities in maritime logistics) in the digital transformation of Systems Engineering using Artificial Intelligence. It became obvious that Artificial Intelligence is not only highly relevant in front-end Systems Engineering, but will be crucial in verification and validation activities and operations. Not only can Artificial Intelligence enhance Systems Engineering, but Systems Engineering can also enhance Artificial Intelligence, for example to support the understanding and design of Systems-of-Systems. Beyond the realm of Artificial Intelligence and Systems Engineering, the session widened its scope to embrace technology for “Extended Reality” to enable truly unseen opportunities in future system design, development and operations.

Presentations

  1. Model-Based Synchronised Design of CPS and Digital Twin Based on System Requirements –  Bernhard Rumpe, RTWH Aachen
  2. AI-Enabled Systems Engineering for Systems of Systems and Missions: Tools to Tame Complexity – Judith Dahmann, MITRE
  3. AI4SE prospects at the European Space Agency – Alberto Gonzalez Fernandez, ESA
  4. AI-based cyber risk management and warnings of cyberattacks in the design and operation of engineered systems – Elisabeth Pate-Cornell, Stanford University
  5. Living in a Generative World – Barclay Brown, Incose
  6. AI Systems Engineering Approach and Implications on the Workforce – Dave Martinez, MIT
  7. AI and SE Engineering- beyond LLMs for coding – William Scherlis, Carnegie Mellon University
  8. Onboard AI and Systems Engineering – Nathan Vercruyssen, Cosine Netherlands
  9. Engineer-aligned Artificial Intelligence – Sebastijan Dumanjic, Delft University of Technology
  10. The Updated SERC AI4SE Roadmap – Tom McDermott, Systems Engineering Research Center
  11. XR for SE, exploring benefits – Daniel Twigt, ATG Europe
  12. Leveraging AI in Systems Engineering for Enhanced Sovereign Capabilities and Carbon Efficiency in Australia – Ripon Kumar Chakrabortty, University of New South Wales
  13. Enhancing Systems Engineering Productivity – Research on AI4SE – Jacco Wesselius, TNO/ESI