INCOSE Annual Conference on Systems Engineering Research 2027

The CSER 2027 theme, Architecting sociotechnical systems for a connected and contested world, treats the people who shape and are affected by a system as part of that system. The conference will look at modern complex systems and their user, societal, organizational, physical, and process elements, with special attention to aerospace, defense, and space systems and the ecosystems that engineer them. It also welcomes work that advances systems and digital engineering in areas such as energy, healthcare, and infrastructure.

CSER is an international forum where researchers, practitioners, and educators from academia, industry, and government share innovations, challenges, and solutions in systems engineering. The conference was founded in 2003 by the Systems Engineering Research Center. Research topics include:

• Architecting in Complex Environments
• Engraining Security in Cyber-Physical Systems
• Sociotechnical Systems Engineering
• New Topics in Systems Engineering Education
• Humans in Engineering Systems
• International Innovation and Enterprise Systems
• Methodological Advances in Systems Engineering and Science
• Human-AI Teaming
• Transdisciplinary Systems Engineering
• Model-Based Systems Engineering
• Adaptive Cyber-Physical Human Systems
• Digital Transformation and Workforce Development
• Digital Engineering and Digital Twins
• Systems Thinking and Complexity Management
• Mission Engineering

Key Submission Dates

Call for Submissions

• November 15, 2026 – Submission deadline for full papers and panel, tutorial, workshop, discussion, and interactive session proposals