The Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering and its faculty are active in a听large number of research projects.听While these research projects may at first appear to be widely diverse, EMSE approaches all research with the unifying goals of:
- Increasing the body of knowledge of project management
- 顿别惫别濒辞辫颈苍驳听new engineering management tools听and methodologies
- Improving the operations of government, business and industry through applied research
- Developing graduate students听into skilled and proficient researchers and engineering management professionals
- Enhancing classroom instructions with applications from industrial research
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Our Research Activities
The Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering听conducts听research and scholarly activities听in a variety of topical areas within the discipline of Engineering Management, including:
- Project Management Systems
- Cost Engineering and Analysis
- Engineering Analytics
- Human Factors Design
- Quality and Reliability Management Systems Design
- Logistics and Supply Chain Management
- Modeling and Simulation
- Operational Systems and Design
- Risk Analysis and Management
- Systems Engineering
- Systems of Systems Engineering
Recent sponsored research programs include:
- Human vigilance monitoring models using EEG data
- Battle outcome prediction models
- Transportation and resource optimization models for health organizations
- Systems failure predication models
- Quality Function Deployment (QFD) for large complex systems; high technology operations re-design
- Organizational systems engineering and change analysis
- Re-design of organizational knowledge systems
- Performance measurement systems development
- Problem definition, learning, and knowledge systems design
- Systems analysis of cruise missile re-certification
- The NASA sponsored effort to develop and apply multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) techniques applicable to launch vehicle conceptual design
- Research on NASA Intelligent Synthesis Environments - Engineering team effectiveness in distributed collaborative environments
- NASA sponsored investigation of Error Patterns in Geographical Databases
- Process Analysis and Improvement of 51情报站 Research Foundation
- WR Systems, LTD and Navy SPAWAR: Integrated 2D/3D Navigation Display Prototype
- Joint C4ISR Battle Center (JBC) Collaborative Tools Concept of Operations with JTASC
- Landmark Communications: Virginian Pilot Distribution Project
- Design and integration of ISO-9000-based Quality Management Systems
