is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Southern California in the Systems Architecting and Engineering Program where he teaches the principles and practice of systems engineering and the architecting of resilient systems.
He is author of the book Systems Engineering for Commercial Aircraft, published by Ashgate Publishing Limited in 1997. He has also authored many papers on systems engineering for INCOSE, AIAA and IEEE. He is also the author of the book Architecting Resilient Systems: Accident Avoidance and the Survival and Recovery from Disruptions, published by Wiley in 2009.p>
Scott is constantly in demand to provide lectures and tutorials on systems engineering. Organizations include, but are not limited to: INCOSE, the ASME, the Chinese Society of Engineers, and the NASA Glenn Research Center.p>
Scott has a master’s degree in fluid mechanics from the University of California in Los Angeles, a bachelor’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Texas (Austin), and a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Liberal Arts from the California State University in Long Beach.p>
Within INCOSE Scott is the chair of the Resilient Systems Working Group.