Researcher

Dr. Nil H. Ergin is an Associate Professor of Systems Engineering in the Engineering Division at Pennsylvania State University’s Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies in Malvern, PA. Prior to joining Penn State in 2009, Dr. Ergin worked within the Research Institute for Manufacturing and Engineering Systems at the University of Texas at El Paso. She was also a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Missouri-Rolla.  Dr. Ergin earned her Ph.D. in systems engineering and M.S. in engineering management from the University of Missouri-Rolla (currently known as Missouri University of Science & Technology). She also holds a B.S. in environmental engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. 

Dr. Ergin’s teaching involves systems engineering, systems verification, validation and testing, requirements engineering, and systems and software architecture. Her research interests include system of systems engineering, complex adaptive systems, model-based systems engineering, and multi-agent systems. Dr. Ergin is also affiliated with the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC), a DoD funded University Affiliated Research Center where she was the investigator for Penn State University in a multi-phased collaborative research effort among multiple universities that worked on modeling different aspects of system of systems acquisition. She is a member of IEEE and INCOSE.