Dr. Art Pyster
Associate Dean for Research and Professor, Systems Engineering and Operations Research, College of Engineering and Computing
George Mason University
Throughout his career, Art Pyster has played a leading role with systems and technologies in telecommunications, aerospace, defense, air traffic control, and computing.
Dr. Pyster’s proudest professional accomplishments are (1) standing up and operating the Systems Engineering Research Center, which is the largest and most impactful academic research program in systems engineering in the nation, (2) leading the development of the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK), which has been accessed well over 1 million times and is the most widely read source on systems engineering, (3) applying novel engineering processes at Digital Sound Corporation to develop extremely low-defect commercial telecommunications systems; and (4) as the FAA’s Deputy Chief Information Officer, leading the Federal Aviation Administration’s information security efforts, software research program, and IT policy development, and serving on the FAA’s investment review board which oversaw more than $3 billion annually.
At Mason, Pyster is a professor of systems engineering, but his primary role is associate dean for research in the College of Engineering and Computing (CEC). In that capacity, Pyster oversees the CEC research portfolio which has rapidly grown to an anticipated value of over $400M with annual expenditures approaching $70M. Pyster continues to oversee the SEBoK which is sponsored by the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), the IEEE Systems Council, and Stevens Institute of Technology. He is an INCOSE Fellow, Founders Award recipient, and Pioneer Award recipient. Pyster has authored more than 70 papers and two books.
Education:
PhD, Computer and Information Sciences, The Ohio State University
MS, Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University
BS, Mathematics, University of Illinois
- SERC-2013-TR-038-1-The Helix Project
- SERC-2013-TR-038-2-Helix – Phases 1 and 2
- SERC-2014-TR-038-3-Helix – Phase 3
- SERC-2014-TR-038-4-Atlas: The Theory of Effective Systems Engineers, Version 0.25
- SERC-2014-TR-038-3-Helix – Phase 3
- SERC-2015-TR-108-Atlas: The Theory of Effective Systems Engineers, Version 0.5
- SERC-2016-TR-106-Atlas 0.6: Expanding on the Theory of Effective Systems Engineers
- SERC-2016-TR-119-The Development of Atlas: The Theory of Effective Systems Engineers
- SERC-2015-TR-110-Extending Atlas to Non-Defense Systems Engineers and to Classic Engineers
Lead Author
- Conference Paper - Analysis of the References From the Guide to the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK)
- Conference Paper - Experiences From Creating the Guide to the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK) V. 1.0
- Conference Paper - Whatʼs in a Wiki?
- Conference Paper - Program Accreditation and the Graduate Reference Curriculum in Systems Engineering (GRCSE™)
- Conference Paper - Developing Systems Engineering Graduate Programs Aligned to the Body of Knowledge and Curriculum to Advance Systems Engineering (BKCASE) Guidelines
- Conference Paper - Applying systems thinking via systemigrams for defining the Body of Knowledge and Curriculum to Advance Systems Engineering (BKCASE) project
- Conference Paper - The systems engineering body of knowledge and graduate reference curriculum
- Journal Article - Managing the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge
- Journal Article - Global Workforce Development Projects in Software Engineering
- Journal Article - Announcing BKCASE: Body of Knowledge and Curriculum to Advance Systems Engineering
- Poster - The Helix Project
- Poster - SSRR 2015: RT-130 & 135: The Helix Project
- Poster - Body of Knowledge and Graduate Reference Curriculum
- Poster - Investigating the DNA of the System Engineering Workforce
- Poster - RT 1: Body of Knowledge and Graduate Reference Curriculum
- Poster - The Helix Project
- Presentation - Helix – Understanding How to develop Effective Systems Engineers
- Presentation - Rapid Dissemination of SERC Research Results into Practice and Education
- Presentation - The Body of knowledge and Curriculum to Advance Systems Engineering
- Presentation - Systems Engineering Research Center Progress and Directions
- Presentation - The Evolving Body of Knowledge
- Workshop Report - Report on the First Helix Workshop: Exploring the Theory of Systems Engineers’ Effectiveness
- Workshop Report - Relationship Between Systems Engineering and Software Engineering