Researcher

Dr. Paul Grogan is an Assistant Professor of Systems & Software in the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology. Previously, he was a postdoctoral research associate in the engineering systems division at MIT. He earned his Ph.D. in engineering systems from MIT and holds a S.M. degree in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT. He was awarded an NDSEG fellowship in 2010 and in 2014. 

Dr. Grogan directs the Collective Design (CoDe) Lab which studies how engineers design systems with distributed authority, resulting in collective decision-making problems that cannot be solved with traditional systems engineering methods. The research builds on theory and tools in design science, economics, and information science to understand and improve engineering design processes. Research methods develop and use models, simulations, and games to understand how individuals and teams interact with design problems. Domains of interest include Earth-observing and communications space systems and (terrestrial) critical infrastructure systems including power, water, communications and transportation.

His research develops and studies the use of information-based tools for engineering design in domains with distributed system architectures such as aerospace, defense, and critical infrastructure. Research interests include: Systems Engineering, Collaborative Engineering, Serious Gaming, Space Systems, Infrastructure Systems, Software Engineering, Modeling and Simulation, and Engineering Education.

*Note: Paul Grogran’s work on Interactive Model-Centric Systems Engineering  (IMCSE) took place while he was at MIT.