UAH will serve as a designated research collaborator in the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC), the first University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) funded by the Department of Defense (DoD) to focus on challenging systems engineering issues facing the DoD and related defense industries.
Researchers from the Rotorcraft Systems Engineering and Simulation Center (RSESC) and the department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Engineering Management (ISEEM) will participate as part of a prestigious consortium of 18-leading collaborator universities and research centers throughout the United States, led by Stevens Institute of Technology, with the University of Southern California serving as its principal collaborator.
SERC will be responsible for systems engineering research that supports the development, integration, testing and sustainability of complex defense systems, enterprises and services. SERC will serve as the systems engineering research engine for the DoD and Intelligence Community (IC). It will also offer systems engineering programs and workshops for DoD and IC employees and contractors.
"This is a major recognition of Stevens Institute of Technology's leadership, consolidated during the last decade, in the field of Complex Systems Engineering," said Dr. Dinesh Verma, Dean of Stevens' School of Systems & Enterprises, and the Executive Director of the Systems Engineering Research Center. "It is also a great measure of Stevens' standing within the systems engineering community that we have been joined in this successful initiative by an impressive consortium of academic collaborators."
For more information on current or future initiatives please contact us at serc@set.uah.edu.
About the Systems Engineering Research Center
SERC is a collaborative research center comprised of 18-leading collaborator universities and research organizations led by Stevens Institute of Technology. Collectively, the SERC collaboration is unparalleled in its depth and breath, leadership and citizenship in Systems Engineering research. SERC collaborators include: Stevens Institute of Technology, University of Southern California, Air Force Institute of Technology, Auburn University, Carnegie Mellon University, Fraunhofer Center at the University of Maryland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Pennsylvania State University, Southern Methodist University, Texas A&M University, Texas Tech University, University of Alabama at Huntsville, University of California at San Diego, University of Maryland, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, University of Virginia, and Wayne State University.
Additional information regarding the SERC and the Department of Defense is available on their respective web sites, www.sercuarc.org and www.defenselink.mil.
