Researcher

Dr. Nicole Hutchison is a senior research scientist at the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC). She personally helped collect most of the data and conducted substantial analyses into skills, career paths, and personal enabling characteristics of systems engineers which comprised the Helix project. The work focused around career paths formed the basis of her dissertation. She has over 15 years of analytic and systems engineering experience. At the SERC, she has developed competency models in system, mission, and digital engineering and is currently working on a competency model in artificial intelligence. Nicole is currently the Editor in Chief of the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK). Prior to the SERC, she supported many branches of the federal government, including the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services through her prior role at analytic services (ANSER) in Virginia. She is a Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) through INCOSE and has over three dozen publications on systems engineering. Nicole is proudly married to a US Army officer and they have two boys who keep them on their toes.