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Center for Aerospace Systems Engineering,
Modeling and Simulation |
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 Director: Prof. Alan Wilhite, Georgia Tech
This Center supports NASA, the Department of Defense and industry, providing advanced systems engineering techniques, models, simulation, and environments to improve cost, development time, and system quality. The Center promotes excellence in the nation's systems-development efforts through research, education, creativity and innovation in
- Modeling and simulation of systems and systems of systems
- Robust design and engineering practices
- Advanced engineering environments
- Systems engineering and engineering integration
Included in the systems engineering center are methods for robust design. Stochastic processes are being developed to support optimization and sensitivity analyses. These methods are being used to model risk, system design margins, and uncertainty in engineering analyses for cost, safety, reliability and performance. Very quick, discrete event-model capability has been developed for operations simulation that includes reliability, time to repair, element crew size, and availability to pin-point system sensitivities to operations as well as design and production.
This Center also supports an advanced engineering environment to integrate geographically dispersed engineers and students into a single computational and knowledge environment. Advanced product life-cycle management tools will be incorporated to virtually model the system and integration processes for design, manufacturing, production, and operations.
Within the Center, a systems engineering modeling and simulation lab is being developed to integrate systems engineering practices across the complete system of life-cycle to develop system requirements, access design and technology alternatives, and operate the system virtually to determine the best design based on cost, safety, performance and risk.
Methodologies will be developed to create a seamless level of modeling and simulation from conceptual to detailed engineering to support of all phases of system development. An integration environment is also being developed to support industry's and NASA's state-of-the-art multidisciplinary engineering computational tools to model systems and associated technologies.
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