Flashcards: Systems engineers

Kirk Paul Lafler (1956) is an American engineer, programmer, entrepreneur, consultant and founder of Software Intelligence Corporation.

Visakan Kadirkamanathan (born 1962) is a Professor of Signal and Information Processing at the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.

Wassim Michael Haddad (born July 14, 1961) is a Lebanese-Greek-American applied mathematician, scientist, and engineer, with research specialization in the areas of dynamical systems and control.

John Nelson Warfield (November 21, 1925 – November 17, 2009) was an American systems scientist, who was professor and director of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Integrative Sciences (IASIS) at George Mason University, and president of the Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society.

He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, to Pauline and Robert Seamans.

Michael David Grimes (born November 25, 1966 in Los Angeles, California) is a Managing Director and Head of Global Technology Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley.

Okan K. Ersoy is a professor of electrical engineering and Director of Statistical and Computational Intelligence Laboratory at Purdue University, West Lafayette School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

John F. Muratore is an American engineer, former professor of Aviation Systems at the University of Tennessee Space Institute in Tullahoma, TN and current Director of Launch Operations for Launch Complex 39A at SpaceX at Cape Canaveral Fl.

John R. Clymer (born 1941) is an American systems engineer, and professor of electrical engineering and systems engineering at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF).

Paul Thelen is the Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Big Fish Games.

Gunnar Johannsen (born 1940) is a German cyberneticist, and Emeritus Professor of Systems Engineering and Human-Machine Systems at the University of Kassel, known for his contributions in the field of human-machine systems.

Alistair G. Sutcliffe (born 1951) is a British scientist and Emeritus Professor of Systems Engineering at the School of Informatics of the University of Manchester, specialized in requirements engineering, user interface design and safety-critical systems.

Donald H. (Don) Liles (born February 14 1947) is an American engineer, Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington, known for his seminal work on enterprise engineering.

Kurt Kosanke (born ca. 1945) is a German engineer, retired IBM manager, director of the AMICE Consortium and consultant, known for his work in the field of enterprise engineering, Enterprise integration and CIMOSA.

Darnell Wilson (born September 22, 1974 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American boxer.

Judith Arlene Resnik (April 5, 1949 – January 28, 1986) was an American engineer and a NASA astronaut who died when the Space Shuttle Challenger was destroyed during the launch of mission STS-51-L.

Captain Linda Garcia Cubero (born 1958) is a former United States Air Force officer, of Mexican-American-Puerto Rican descent who in 1980 was a member of the first class of women to graduate from the United States Air Force Academy.

Geoff Crammond is a computer game designer and programmer who specialises in motor racing games.

Arthur David Hall III (1925 – March 31, 2006 in Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA) was an American electrical engineer and a pioneer in the field of systems engineering.

Harold (Hall) Chestnut (November 25, 1917 – August 29, 2001) was an American electrical engineer, control engineer and manager at General Electric and author, who helped establish the fields of control theory and systems engineering.

Michael Edward Fossum (born December 19, 1957 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota) is an American astronaut.

Allan Wipper Wells MBE (born 3 May 1952) is a former British track and field sprinter who became the 100 metres Olympic champion at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

Mihajlo D. Mesarovic (Serbian: Mihajlo D. Mesarović, Serbian Cyrillic: Михајло Д. Месаровић; born July 2, 1928) is a Serbian scientist, who is a professor of Systems Engineering and Mathematics at Case Western Reserve University.

Kathryn Patricia "Kay" Hire (born August 26, 1959 in Mobile, Alabama) is a NASA astronaut and Captain in the U.

Andrew Mishkin (born c. 1958 in Los Angeles) is a senior systems engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he coordinated the development of various robotic vehicles and their subsystems for more than 15 years.

Alfredo John Ascani (May 29, 1917 – March 28, 2010) was an American Major General and test pilot of the United States Air Force.

Kevin C. Dittman (born ca. 1960) is an American computer scientist, IT consultant and Professor of Information Technology at the Purdue University, especially known for his textbook Systems analysis and design methods written with Lonnie D.

Erik Guldentops (born ca. 1941) is a Belgian computer scientist and management consultant, who was systems engineer at SWIFT and Executive Professor at Antwerp Management School, known for his work on IT governance.

Harold (Hal) Mooz (born ca. 1932) is an American systems engineer, business consultant and founder and CEO of The Center for Systems Management, Inc.

Jeffrey L. Whitten (born ca 1955) is an American computer scientist, and Professor of Information Technology at Purdue University, known with Kevin C.

William W. Simmons (born 1932) is An American physicist at TRW and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), notable for his development of electro-optical devices.

Kevin John Forsberg (born 1934) is an American engineer, business consultant, and with Harold Mooz co-founder and executive director of The Center for Systems Management, who was awarded the INCOSE Pioneer Award in 2001.

Wolter Joseph Fabrycky (born 1932) is an American systems engineer, Emeritus Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech, and chairman of Academic Applications International.

Andrew Patrick Sage (August 27, 1933- October 31, 2014) was an American systems engineer and Emeritus Professor and Founding Dean Emeritus at the School of Information Technology and Engineering of the George Mason University.

Theodore Joseph Williams (1923 – April 27, 2013) was an American engineer and Professor of Engineering at Purdue University, known for the development of the Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture.

Robert Engel Machol (October 16, 1917 in New York, USA – November 12, 1998 in Maryland, USA) was an American systems engineer and professor of systems at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management of Northwestern University.

Alfonso Farina FREng (born January 25, 1948) is an Italian electronic engineer.

Andrew Johnson (born 1983 or 1984) is an American politician and systems engineer from Minneapolis, currently representing the city's 12th Ward on the Minneapolis City Council.

Peter John Fleming is a Professor of Industrial Systems and Control in the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering and till June 2012, He was the Director of the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre for Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.

Harry H. Goode (June 30, 1909 – October 30, 1960) was an American computer engineer and systems engineer and professor at the University of Michigan.

Milton D. Rubin (1914–1996) was an American systems engineer and inventor, who was president of the Society for General Systems Research in 1968.

Joseph Jean-Pierre Marc Garneau, PC MP CC CD FCASI (born February 23, 1949) is a Canadian politician and the Minister of Transport in the Government of Canada.

Bradford Parkinson (February 16, 1935) is an American engineer and inventor, and United States Air Force colonel best known as the father of the Global Positioning System (along with Roger L. Easton and Ivan A. Getting).

Richard J. Mayer (born 1952) is an American engineer, President of Knowledge Based Systems, Inc.

Gwilym Meirion Jenkins (12 August 1932 – 10 July 1982) was a British statistician and systems engineer, born in Gowerton (Welsh: Tregŵyr), Swansea, Wales.

Simon "Si" Ramo (May 7, 1913 – June 27, 2016) was an American engineer, businessman, and author.

Donald G. Firesmith (born June 14, 1952) is an American software engineer, consultant, and trainer at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI).

Julie Anne Peters (born January 16, 1952) is an American author of young adult fiction.

Lonnie D. Bentley (born 1957) is an American computer scientist, and Professor and former Department Head of Computer and Information Technology at Purdue University, known with Kevin C.

Tom Gilb (born 1940) is an American systems engineer, consultant, and author, known for the development of software metric, software inspection, and evolutionary processes.

Albert Wayne Wymore (February 1, 1927 – February 24, 2011) was an American mathematician, systems engineer, Professor Emeritus of Systems and Industrial Engineering of the University of Arizona, and one of the founding fathers of systems engineering.

Arnold Tustin, (16 July 1899 – 9 January 1994), was a British engineer, and Professor of Engineering at the University of Birmingham and at Imperial College London, who made important contributions to the development of control engineering and its application to electrical machines.

Peter Checkland (born 18 December 1930, in Birmingham, UK) is a British management scientist and emeritus professor of Systems at Lancaster University.

Derek K. Hitchins (born 1935) is a British systems engineer and was professor in engineering management, in command & control and in systems science at Cranfield University at Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England.

Eberhardt Rechtin (January 16, 1926 – April 14, 2006) was an American systems engineer and respected authority in aerospace systems and systems architecture.

Harrison Morton Wadsworth, Jr.