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The Guide to the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK) has been an immense undertaking involving the collective efforts of so many, including 70 authors, hundreds of reviewers, and the wiki support team. A special thanks goes to our primary sponsor, the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering, who has provided unwavering support over the past three years.

With gratitude,

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BKCASE

The SEBoK was developed by the Body of Knowledge and Curriculum to Advance Systems Engineering Project (BKCASE) (http://www.bkcase.org), which is concurrently producing the Graduate Reference Curriculum for Systems Engineering (GRCSE). Nearly everyone involved in BKCASE has contributed to both products. Hence, the acknowledgements generally do not distinguish between contributions to SEBoK and GRCSE.

This material is based upon work supported, in whole or in part, by the U.S. Department of Defense through the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) under Contract H98230-08-D-0171. SERC is a federally funded University Affiliated Research Center managed by Stevens Institute of Technology. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Department of Defense.

The Department of Defense recognizes the importance of SEBoK to its own workforce development and has provided substantial financial support and partnership to the project. The office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering (DASD/SE) is the primary Department of Defense sponsor for the BKCASE Project. DASD/SE has graciously provided much of the funding for SEBoK development through their Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) (see http://www.sercuarc.org). Those funds have primarily paid for the time spent by the SEBoK leadership, enabled the many volunteer authors to conduct quarterly physical workshops, and provided for the technical and administrative infrastructure to conduct such a complex distributed project. DASD/SE has not determined the content of the SEBoK, but instead allows the author team and the community to determine what the SEBoK should contain. Without this support, this project would not be possible. Special thanks go to Stephen Welby, Kristen Baldwin, Nicholas Torelli, Don Gelosh, and Scott Lucero.

The remaining two thirds of the project cost were donations in-kind by our partners to support the labor and travel of the authors. We gratefully acknowledge their contributions.

Part Team Leads

The SEBoK is divided into seven primary Parts (see SEBoK Table of Contents). For each of the Parts, someone graciously volunteered to lead a team of authors in writing the articles and coordinating article integration. This was an enormous amount of work. We would like to thank each of these individuals for their time, dedication, and leadership. In addition, a member of the core team supported each of the part team leads.

  • Part 1 - Barry Boehm with support from Art Pyster
  • Part 2 - Richard Adcock with support from Nicole Hutchison
  • Part 3 - Garry Roedler with support from James Anthony
  • Part 4 - Harold (Bud) Lawson with support from David Olwell
  • Part 5 - Art Pyster with support from Alice Squires and Deva Henry
  • Part 6 - David Olwell with support from Art Pyster
  • Part 7 - Heidi Davidz with support from Alice Squires and Deva Henry

Authors

As a primarily volunteer effort, BKCASE has depended on dozens of authors from around the world to provide their own time and expenses. Each of the individuals listed below has worked many hours to develop and improve SEBoK and GRCSE. Without each of them, it would have been impossible to succeed. Many of them have been supported by their organizations during this effort, including support for travel and labor, and we also gratefully acknowledge the organizational contribution.

Table 1. BKCASE Authors. (SEBoK Original)
Richard Adcock, Cranfield University and International Council on Systems Engineering in the UK Duane Hyberston, The MITRE Corporation in the US
James F. Anthony, Jr., Decisive Analytics Corporation in the US Scott Jackson, University of Southern California in the US
Erik Aslaksen, Sinclair Knight Merz in Australia, Mo Jamshidi, University of Texas San Antonio in the US
Richard Beasley, Rolls Royce in the UK Cheryl Jones, United States Army
Barry Boehm, University of Southern California in the US Chul Whan Kim, Advisor of KCOSE in Korea
Stuart Booth, Office of the Secretary of Defense in the US Naohiko Kohtake, KEIO University in Japan
John Brackett, Boston University in the US Harold (Bud) Lawson, Lawson Konsult AB in Sweden
Chuck Calvano, Naval Postgraduate School in the US Yeaw lip “Alex” Lee, Defence Science and Technology Agency in Singapore
Aaron Eng Seng Chia, National University of Singapore in Singapore Ray Madachy, Naval Postgraduate School in the US
Kyung-il Choe, HUFS in Korea James Martin, The Aerospace Corporation in the US
Edmund Conrow, Management and Technology Associates in the US Gregory Mayhew, Boeing in the US
Paul Croll, CSC in the US Steven Mitchell, Lockheed Martin in the US
Cihan Dagli, Missouri University of Science and Technology in the US Ken Nidiffer, Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute and Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Systems Council both in the US
Judith Dahmann, MITRE in the US David H. Olwell, Naval Postgraduate School in the US
Heidi Davidz, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne in the US Bo Oppenheim, Loyola Marymount University in the US
Leopoldo Decardenas, Raytheon in the US Andy Pickard, Rolls-Royce in the US
Johann (Hans) Demmel, Raytheon in the US Ricardo Pineda, University Texas at El Paso in the US
Jeremy Dick, Integrate Systems Engineering ltd. in the US Daniel Prun, Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile (ENAC) -French Civil Aviation University in France
Charles Dickerson, Loughborough University in the UK Art Pyster, Stevens Institute of Technology in the US
David Dorgan, Raytheon in the US Garry Roedler, Lockheed Martin in the US
Dov Dori, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US Jean-Claude Roussel, European Aeronautical Defence and Space Company in France
Joseph J. Ekstrom, Brigham Young University in the US Janet Singer, University of California Santa Cruz in the US
Stephanie Enck, Naval Postgraduate School in the US Seiko Shirasaka, KEIO University in Japan
Marcia Enos, Lockheed Martin in the US Hillary Sillitto, Thales Group and the International Council on Systems Engineering in the UK
Dick Fairley, Observer and Author from Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) in the US John Snoderly, Defense Acquisition University in the US
Alain Faisandier, Association Francaise d 'Ingenlerie Systeme in France Alice Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology in the US
Tim Ferris, University of South Australia and the International Council on Systems Engineering in Australia Bill Stiffler, Raytheon in the US
Kevin Forsberg, OGR Systems in the US Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in the US
G. Richard Freeman, Air Force Institute of Technology in the US Guilherme Horta Travassos, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in Brazil
Sanford Friedenthal, SAF Consulting in the US Ricardo Valerdi, University of Arizona in the US
Brian Gallagher, CACI in the US Mary VanLeer, Perceptive Systems, Inc. in the US
Devanandham Henry, Stevens Institute of Technology in the US Qing Wang, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China
Michael Henshaw, Loughborough University in the UK Brian Wells, Raytheon in the US
Thomas Hilburn, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Computer Society both in the US Brian White, CAU<SES in the US
Nicole A.C. Hutchison, Stevens Institute of Technology in the US Ken Zemrowski, TASC, Inc. in the US

Partners

Partner organizations have supported SEBoK by providing personnel, opportunities to discuss the SEBoK in open forums such as conferences and workshops, and providing valued feedback on draft SEBoK materials. Some organizations have also chosen to have an official representative(s) participate in BKCASE, as shown below. A special thanks to our partners.

For more information on potential partner involvement after publication of version 1.0, please see SEBoK Evolution.

Wiki Team

The transition from a traditional document to a wiki-based platform was a long one. We are tremendously grateful to the folks who have helped us install, manage, and update the wiki:

  • Nicole Hutchison (team lead), Stevens Institute of Technology
  • Stephanie Enck (co-lead), Naval Postgraduate School
  • Hans-Peter de Koning, European Space Agency
  • Paola Di Maio, University of Strathclyde
  • Ray Jorgensen, Rockwell Collins
  • Sanford Friedenthal, SAF Consulting
  • Steven Mitchell, Lockheed Martin

Support for the wiki is provided by Peder Halseide of WikiExpert.

Participants

The following individuals have provided support to the BKCASE team over the course of the project.

  • Johann Amsenga
  • John Baras
  • Johan Bendz
  • Stuart Booth
  • Dan Cernoch
  • Richard Frost
  • Edward Ghafari
  • Mike Gourley
  • Richard Gryzbowski
  • Peter Jackson
  • Ken Kepchar
  • Mike Kreuger
  • JoAnn Lane
  • Greg Mayhew
  • Richard Rosenthal
  • Sven-Olaf Schulze
  • Robert (Bob) Shishko
  • Mary Jane Willshire
  • Kenneth Kepchar

Reviewers

Reviewers are critical to the success and growth of the SEBoK. By providing feedback that represents the diversity of views and opinions on systems engineering, reviewers help the author team identify and describe ground truths for SE as well as areas of contention. The reviewers who provided feedback for earlier version 0.25, 0.50, and 0.75 are listed in Table 2, below. Many thanks. The adjudication of all SEBoK review comments can be found at SEBoK Review and Adjudication.

The author team would like to particularly acknowledge the efforts of several INCOSE working groups (WGs); the following groups provided extensive feedback on SEBoK 0.5 and input for SEBoK 0.75:

  • Systems Science WG
  • Architecture WG
  • Requirements WG
  • Decision Analysis WG
  • In Service WG
  • Lean Systems Engineering WG
  • System of Systems WG
  • Process Improvement WG
Table 2. Reviewers of earlier SEBoK versions. (SEBoK Original)
Karl Best, Project Management Institute Dr. Stan Rifkin, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Timothy W. Lohr, Lockheed Martin MS2 Curt Zielinkski, LMC EBS Tech Ops
Donald Robertson, Lockheed Martin MS2 Jack Ring, Educe LLC
Velda G. Musgrove, Lockheed Martin MS2 Johnny Duckworth, Space & Airborne Systems/Systems Development Center
Marcel van de Ven, Movares Nederland b.v. Daniel Mulvihill, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Krister Sutinen, Siemens Industry Software AB Mike Gayle, Boeing
Stephanie White, Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus Hans van Vliet, VU University, Amsterdam
Kal Toth, Portland State University Gerard Auvray, Astrium Satellite
Chia Eng Seng Aaron, National University of Singapore Harold Mooz, HMA
Dawn Sabados, UA Huntsville Prof. Ian Sommerville, School of Computer Science, University of St. Andrews
Odile Mornas, Thales Jay Mandelbaum, Institute for Defense Analyses
Howard Eisner, The George Washington University Mark Ardis, Stevens Institute of Technology
Robert Rathbone, CASSIDIAN Air Systems (EADS) Bruce Elliott, Arbutus Technical Consulting
Daniel J Dechant, Raytheon Dr Jon Holt, Atego
Roland MAZZELLA, Thales Michael C. Dapp, Lockheed Martin MS2
Anne Sigogne, THALES Theodora Saunders, IEEE AES, IEEE Sys Council, AHS
Dr. Karen J Richter, Institute for Defense Analyses Alan Knott, Parsons Brinckerhoff
Mark Maier, The Aerospace Corporation Rolan Mazzella, THALES
Andrew Farncombe, John Boardman Associates Dan Dillery
Edmond TONNELLIER, Thales Dahai Liu, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Frédéric Autran, EADS - Cassidian Systems Vincenzo Arrichiello, SELEX Sistemi Integrati SpA
Jeremy I. Stuart, The Boeing Company Duncan Kemp, Department for Transport
Denis Bertrand, DGMSSC/DMPP 5-2, Ottawa, Canada Marcel van de Ven, Movares Nederland b.v.
John Harauz, Jonic Systems Engineering Bryan E. Herdlick, Applied Physics Laboratory; Johns Hopkins University
Yoshihiro Matsumoto, ASTEM Research Institute Bart Terrery, Lockheed Martin
Dennis Moen, Lockheed Martin Roger C. Pare, Lockheed Martin MS2
Jim Smith, Lockheed Martin Jennifer Milligan, Lockheed Martin MS2
Annette Reilly, Lockheed Martin Curt Zielinski, Lockheed Martin
Ada Hunter, Lockheed Martin Thomas Tudron, Lockheed Martin
Nelson Roberts, Lockheed Martin Paul Martellock, LMT
Vidyut Navelkar, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. Jose Luis Fernandez Sanchez, Madrid Technical University (UPM)
Shirley Tseng Paola Di Maio, University of Strathclyde
Qing Wang, ISCAS William R. Lyders, ASSETT Inc.
Bernadette Gasmi, EADS AIRBUS Gilles Meuriot, AREVA TA
Gauthier Fanmuy, AND Susan Murray, Missouri S&T
Susan Ferreira,University of Texas at Arlington Judith Dahmann, MITRE
Ivan Mactaggart, AWE PLC Michael Wilkinson, Niteworks/Atkins
Lori Zipes, NAVSEA NSWC Panama City Division (US Dept of Navy) Alan D Harding, BAE Systems
Jean-Luc Wippler, LUCA Ingénierie Yvonne Simms, Boeing
Scott Werner, Honeywell Technology Services Incorporated (Colorado Springs) James Jamison, IBM
Adeel Khalid, Southern Polytechnic State University William J. Brocker, Brocker Engineering
Duane Hybertson, MITRE Paul Joannou, IEEE Computer Society
Jeff Lankford, The Aerospace Corporation David Mason , Lockheed Martin USA
David D. Walden, INCOSE & Sysnovation LLC Barry Boehm, USC
Arnold Neville Pears, Uppsala University Chuck Walrad
Laurie Nasta, Booz Allen Hamilton IEEE Computer Society (collective review)
Andrew McGettrick, The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) William Golaz, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
Roxann Marumoto, Raytheon Louisa Guise, Raytheon
Julie DeMeester, Raytheon Francis M. Joyner, Raytheon
David D. Walden, Sysnovation, LLC Lajuane Brooks, Aurora Sciences
James J. Peter, Johns Hopkins University Emile Anderson, Raytheon IDS
Ali Bahraman, Raytheon Mark Ardis, Stevens Institute of Technology
Beth Wilson, Raytheon Alan Knott, Parsons Brinckerhoff
Wayne O’Brien, Raytheon Denis Bertrand and others for a consolidated review, Department of National Defence
Peter Botman, Independent Mike Stemig, Raytheon
Bob Epps and a Lockheed Martin consolidated review, Lockheed Martin John Clark and a consolidated review, Northrop Grumman Corporation
Robert Mottl, NGAS Mike O’Neill, Georgia Tech Research Institute
James Martin, The Aerospace Corporation Scott Jackson, University of Southern California


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