INCOSE Washington Metro Area (WMA): September Chapter Meeting
INCOSE Washington Metro Area (WMA): September Chapter Meeting
Date: Wednesday, 10 September 2025
Time: 6:00 - 7:00 PM EST
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This month, in addition to our normal chapter business, we'll be hearing from members of the BoD that attended the INCOSE International Symposium in Ottawa Canada this July. We will also have a special guest, Dr. Alejandro Salado from the University of Arizona.
Agenda:
- 6:30 pm - 7:15 pm Chapter Business Meeting and IS2025 Debrief
- 7:15 pm - 8:00 pm Dr. Alejandro Salado "A digital engineering factory for systems engineering education, research, and practice."
Abstract: The Digital Engineering Factory (DEF) at the University of Arizona is a collaborative environment designed to support systems engineering students, researchers, and practitioners by providing end-to-end visibility into the engineering lifecycle. By integrating data from a diverse set of engineering authoring environments, the DEF creates a holistic, semantically structured digital ecosystem. This presentation will describe how the DEF advances educational goals such as collaborative learning, peer evaluation, and comprehension of the downstream impact of design decisions, and how it serves as a research and practice platform for exploring and adopting digital engineering workflows, ontology-driven integration, and automation. Built on the modular University of Arizona Ontology Stack (UAOS) and leveraging semantic web technologies, the DEF enables cross-domain data unification, validation, and reasoning to support the next generation of digital systems engineering.
Bio: Dr. Alejandro Salado is an associate professor of systems engineering with the Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering at the University of Arizona and the director of the systems engineering program. In addition, he provides part-time consulting in areas related to enterprise transformation, cultural change of technical teams, systems engineering, and engineering strategy. Alejandro conducts research to develop theory and methods in various areas of systems engineering, including problem formulation, design of verification and validation strategies, model-based systems engineering, and engineering education. Before joining academia, he held positions as systems engineer, chief architect, and chief systems engineer in manned and unmanned space systems of up to $1B in development cost. He has published over 150 technical papers, and his research has received federal funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Naval Surface Warfare Command (NSWC), the Naval Air System Command (NAVAIR), and the Office of Naval Research (ONR), among others. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and the International Fulbright Science and Technology Award. Dr. Salado holds a BS/MS in electrical and computer engineering from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, a MS in project management and a MS in electronics engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, the SpaceTech MEng in space systems engineering from the Technical University of Delft, and a PhD in systems engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology. He is an associate fellow of AIAA and a senior member of IEEE. He currently serves as Director of Academic Matters at INCOSE.
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