Dr. Paul D. Collopy
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Dr. Collopy is a Research Council member and Researcher at SERC. He was appointed Professor and Chair of the Industrial and Systems Engineering and Engineering Management Department at University of Alabama - Huntsville (UAH) in 2013. In addition to his work in academia, his career background includes leadership roles with the National Science Foundation and the Value-Driven Design Institute, and engineering positions with Procter & Gamble, Morton Thiokol, and GE Aircraft Engines.
Dr. Collopy is credited as the original developer of economic-based technology value models, and served as the lead advisor to the DARPA System F6 program for its Value-Centric Design for Adaptability technology pillar. Co-inventor on two patents and author of more than forty papers, Dr. Collopy speaks around the world about the design of large complex systems. He has been licensed as a professional engineer since 1981.
Dr. Collopy served as Technical Program Chair of the 14th Conference on Systems Engineering Research (CSER 2016), which was hosted by the UAH Industrial & Systems Engineering and Engineering Management department in March 2016.
- SERC-2018-TR-109-Enterprise System-of-Systems Model for Digital-Thread Enabled Acquisition
- SERC-2015-TR-106-Strategic Planning for Science and Technology Portfolio
- SERC-2010-TR-010-1-Value of Flexibility – Phase I
- SERC-2012-TR-010-2-Valuing Flexibility – Phase II
- SERC-2018-TR-102-Systems Engineering Research Needs and Workforce Development Assessment
- Enterprise System-of-Systems Model for Digital-thread Enabled Acquisition
- Strategic Planning Science and Technology Portfolio
- Valuing Flexibility For Complex Engineering Systems
- Systems Engineering Assessment & Workforce Development Plan
- Systems Engineering Research Needs and Workforce Development Assessment (Pathfinder)