List of systems engineers

This is a list of notable systems engineers, people who were trained in or practice Systems Engineering, and made notable contributions to this field in theory or practice.

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• Genrich Altshuller (1926–1998) was a Russian engineer and scientist. Inventor of the TRIZ (in English: "TIPS" ;Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) and ARIZ methodologies.

• Arnaldo Maria Angelini (-2002) was an Italian professor, and also worked at National Electric Power Systems of Italy. He was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei and Emeritus Professor at the University of Rome. In 1986 he received the Simon Ramo Medal for technical and managerial leadership in the integration of the Italian electric power system and for contributions to education in Systems Science and Engineering.

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• David G. Beshore: (1949- ) past president from 1998 to 2000 of the Los Angeles, CA Chapter of INCOSE. Senior Project Engineer for major aerospace companies in the fields of systems, software, Distributed control systems, LASERs, Energy Conversion, and the Atlas V Launch vehicle. Co-author of the CMMI. Author of several papers in Object-Oriented Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Synchro-X Product Life Cycle Management Model, knowledge engineering, solar power, alternative fuels, and Chemical lasers. Five(5) U.S. patents.

• Benjamin Blanchard; Virginia Polytechnic Institute, SE educator, author of texts on Systems Engineering and related disciplines.

• James Brill: past president in 1995 of INCOSE.

• Wernher von Braun, chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle.

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• Boris Chertok; Rocket Space Corporation "Energy", Moscow, Russia. 2004 Simon Ramo Medal winner for significant contributions to systems engineering and technical leadership of control systems design for the orbiting space station Mir.

• Harold Chestnut (1918–2001) was an American electrical engineer and systems engineer, and the first president of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC).

• John R. Clymer (1942–Present) is a researcher, practitioner, and teacher in the field of systems engineering who was named INCOSE Fellow this year at IS 2008. He is a well-known expert in conceiving, engineering, and demonstrating computeraided design tools for context-sensitive, self-adaptive systems. He has been a member of INCOSE since the organizations origination.

• Donald A. Coggan (1945(?)) is an American engineer and consultant in the field of value engineering. He developed the Intelligent Building Database in 1985, which identified the services that an intelligent building could offer, as well as the technology that would be required for these services. The database also identified which national and international markets were best suited for these services.

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• Kitaw Ejigu (1948–2006) was an Ethiopian-American NASA's chief Spacecraft and satellite Systems engineer and research scientist for Rockwell International and Boeing Company, a leading American aircraft and aerospace manufacturer. He collabrated with other scientists to create space shuttle and rockets that assisted in planetary science research and exploration. Among his greatest achievements while in NASA and Boeing are his innovative creations of the Global Positioning System or GPS and a revolutionary and dynamic flight simulator for Boeing Company.

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• Wolt Fabrycky; Virginia Polytechnic Institute, SE Educator, author of texts on Systems Engineering and related disciplines.

• Kevin Forsberg.

• Jacque Fresco Project director at The Venus Project

• George Friedman (Systems engineer) Past president in 1994 of INCOSE

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• Tom Gilb (1940) is an American systems engineer and inventor of Planguage and Evolutionary Project Management.

• Harry H. Goode (1909–1960) was an American computer engineer and systems engineer and was professor at University of Michigan. Until his death he was president of the National Joint Computer Committee (NJCC). With Robert Engel Machol he wrote the famous System Engineering Handbook.

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• Arthur David Hall III (1925–2006) was an American electrical engineer. He worked for years at Bell Labs. He was one of the founders of the IEEE and was among the first general systems theorists. He wrote A methodology of Systems Engineering from 1962.

• David Heebner; Consultant, McLean, VA. 2003 Simon Ramo Medal for leadership in introducing towed line array sonar systems for long range detection of submarines.

• Derek Hitchins. (1935) is a British systems engineer and was professor in engineering management, in command & control and in systems science at the Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, England.

• Eric Honour Past president in 1997 of INCOSE.

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• Gwilym Jenkins (1933–1982) was a British statistician and systems engineer. He was professor of Systems Engineering, Lancaster University, and best known for the Box-Jenkins methodology for fitting time series models.

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• Philip John (SE) PhD; Professor of Systems Engineering, Cranfield University. Formerly Head of Systems Engineering for major international company; President of INCOSE UK 2003-04.

• Clarence "Kelly" Johnson (1910–1990) was an American aircraft engineer and aeronautical innovator, who worked for Lockheed for more than four decades, playing a leading role in the design of over forty aircraft, and acquiring a reputation as one of the most talented and prolific aircraft design engineers of the 20th century.

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• Rudolf Emil Kalman (1930) is an American-Hungarian mathematical system theorist, who is an electrical engineer by training.

• George Klir (1932) is a Czech-American computer scientist and professor of systems sciences at the Center for Intelligent Systems at the Binghamton University in New York. Author of several texts on systems, including Architecture of Systems Problem Solving.

• Sergei Pavlovich Korolev was the Russian rocket and space systems designer beating the Americans during the Cold War times "space race" by Sputnik and putting the first man in space (Gagarin). His rocket and capsule designs are in principle still in use for supplying the International Space Station (Proton, Soyuz).

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• Jerome Lake; First president in 1992 of INCOSE.

• Robert J. Lano, systems engineer at TRW corporation, and originator of the N² chart.

• Virginia Lentz; Past president in 1996 of INCOSE.

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• Robert Engel Machol (1917–1998) was an American systems engineer and expert in the fields of operations research and systems engineering.

• Brian Mar; Professor emeritus of Civil and Systems Engineering at the University of Washington, and past president in 1993 of INCOSE.

• Richard J. Mayer (1939) is an American engineer, lead engineer and principal investigator on the projects of developing part of the IDEF family of modeling languages

• William H. McCumber; Fellow of INCOSE, President of EagleRidge Technologies, Professor of Practice at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC) Graduate School of Management and Engineering, retired from IBM Federal Systems and Loral/Lockheed; deceased 2003.

• Harold Mooz; INCOSE Systems Engineering Pioneer (2001). Author of Visualizing Project Management (1996), Communicating Project Management (2003) and contributing author to The Wiley Guide to Managing Projects (2004). Recipient of the CIA Seal Medallion.

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• Hermann Oberth (1894–1989); Romanian/German space pioneer, derived basic rocket equations and described in principle all features of rockets and space stations still valid today (June 1923 he published his book "Die Rakete zu den Planetenraeumen", in 1929 "Wege zur Raumschiffahrt"). He was also mentor of Wernher von Braun.

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• Bradford Parkinson is an American professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Stanford University. Simon Ramo Medal for leading the concept development and the reduction to practice the satellite-based, worldwide navigation system known as the global positioning system (GPS).

• Philip M'Pherson; First head of 'systems engineering' at MIT in 1955.

• Ken Ptack; Jet pilot and systems engineer, and past president in 1999 of INCOSE.

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Eberhardt Rechtin

Seamans, Von Braun and Kennedy at Cape Canaveral.

Joseph Francis Shea

• Simon Ramo (1913) is an American physicist, engineer, and business leader. He led development of microwave and missile technology and is sometimes known as the father of the Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

• Eberhardt Rechtin (1926–2006) was an American systems engineer and respected authority in aerospace systems and systems architecture .

• Donna H. Rhodes; Researcher and senior lecturer in the Engineering Systems Division at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and past president in 2000 of INCOSE.

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• Andrew Sage; School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University. 2000 Simon Ramo Medal for outstanding contributions to the field of systems engineering. Series Editor of a textbook series on Systems Engineering and Management for John Wiley & Son.

• William Schoening (December 31, 1942-November 5, 2011) was a systems engineer and Technical Fellow at Boeing, and past president (1998) and Fellow of INCOSE.

• Robert Seamans was a NASA Deputy Administrator and MIT professor.

• Wade H. Shaw; Professor of Engineering of Systems at the Florida Institute of Technology and Editor of the Engineering Management Review. Fellow of the IEEE.

• Joseph Francis Shea, systems engineer on the Titan I ballistic missile, and head of the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office.

• Nikolai Sheremetevsky; Advisor to Director, All Russia Institute for Electromechanics. 2004 Simon Ramo Medal for significant contributions to systems engineering and technical leadership of control systems design for the orbiting space station Mir.

• Neil Siegel; Vice-President and Chief Engineer of the Northrop Grumman Corporation, and lead systems engineer for many US Army systems. Member of the US National Academy of Engineering. Fellow of the IEEE. Winner of the Simon Ramo Medal in 2011 for his work on the US Army's digital battlefield system.

• John Snoderly; Past president of INCOSE from 2002-2004.

• Heinz Stoewer; Professor Systems Engineering and past president of INCOSE from 2004 to 2005.

• Edward Sussengeth; System engineering at IBM Corporation. In 1989 he received the Simon Ramo Medal for system engineering of a major computer communication network.

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• A. Tahsiri is an academician and Systems Engineer, He is founder and chairman of a numbers of Systems related educational and research programs at the KNT University of Technology, He has also developed a various novel theories and approaches within the context of systems engineering to analysis and design systems with complexities under global behavior of economics and businesses. He is currently working at the Systems and Control Engineering Dept, KNT University of Technology.

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• A. Wayne Wymore (1927) is an American mathematician and systems engineer. He is founder and first Chairman of Systems and Industrial Engineering (SIE) Department at the University of Arizona. He was also one of the first Fellows of International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE).

• John N. Warfield (1926) is an American electrical engineering and systems scientist, and member of the Academic Committee of the International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics

• Kevin Warwick (1954) is Professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading. He is best known for his implant research linking humans and technology as a system.

See also

• Engineering
• List of engineers - for lists of engineers from other disciplines.
• List of systems scientists
• People in systems and control
• List of systems engineering at universities