SERC Sponsor Research Review 2009

Thursday, October 15-16, 2009
Safeguard Scientifics Building
Penn State Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies
30 E. Swedesford Road Malvern, Pennsylvania 19355

The Highlights of the 2009 ASRR were:

• The SERC just celebrated its first birthday as the DoD University Affiliated Research Center devoted to systems engineering research.
• Steady growth in research, sense of community, infrastructure, and visibility. FY10 will be the tipping point where SERC really takes off.
• The SERC is a collaboration that brings together creative people working together to solve the systems engineering research challenges of DoD.  This is the first opportunity for the team of collaborators and sponsors to get together.
• The ASRR is our first large-scale gathering of SERC researchers and our government customers.
• Tremendous opportunity for us to get together, learn from each other and learn about each other.
• Enable collaborators to highlight and learn from each others’ strengths in core competencies.
• Build a greater sense of community between the collaborators and between collaborators and government
• Stimulate new ideas for research projects
• Serve as a prototype for more outreach-oriented future ASRRs
• Establish a baseline understanding of the overall SERC and its collaborators’ state of the art in systems engineering research.