Research

The Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering and its faculty are active in a large number of research projects. While these research projects may at first appear to be widely diverse, EMSE approaches all research with the unifying goals of:

• Increasing the body of knowledge of project management
• Developing new engineering management tools and methodologies
• Improving the operations of government, business and industry through applied research
• Developing graduate students into skilled and proficient researchers and engineering management professionals
• Enhancing classroom instructions with applications from industrial research

The Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering conducts research and scholarly activities in a variety of topical areas within the discipline of Engineering Management, including:

• Project Management Systems
• Cost Engineering and Analysis
• Engineering Analytics
• Human Factors Design
• Quality and Reliability Management Systems Design
• Logistics and Supply Chain Management
• Modeling and Simulation
• Operational Systems and Design
• Risk Analysis and Management
• Systems Engineering
• Systems of Systems Engineering

Recent sponsored research programs include:

• Human vigilance monitoring models using EEG data
• Battle outcome prediction models
• Transportation and resource optimization models for health organizations
• Systems failure predication models
• Quality Function Deployment (QFD) for large complex systems; high technology operations re-design
• Organizational systems engineering and change analysis
• Re-design of organizational knowledge systems
• Performance measurement systems development
• Problem definition, learning, and knowledge systems design
• Systems analysis of cruise missile re-certification
• The NASA sponsored effort to develop and apply multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) techniques applicable to launch vehicle conceptual design
• Research on NASA Intelligent Synthesis Environments - Engineering team effectiveness in distributed collaborative environments
• NASA sponsored investigation of Error Patterns in Geographical Databases
• Process Analysis and Improvement of Old Dominion University Research Foundation
• WR Systems, LTD and Navy SPAWAR: Integrated 2D/3D Navigation Display Prototype
• Joint C4ISR Battle Center (JBC) Collaborative Tools Concept of Operations with JTASC
• Landmark Communications: Virginian Pilot Distribution Project
• Design and integration of ISO-9000-based Quality Management Systems