Two-semester Agile Systems Engineering Design Course: Investigation and Exploration of “Immersive” Training Technologies

Cihan Dagli is a professor of engineering management and systems engineering, and Affiliated Professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in industrial engineering from the Middle East Technical University and a Ph.D. in applied operations research in large scale systems design and operation from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, where from 1976 to 1979 he was a British Council Fellow. His research interests are in the areas of systems architecting and engineering, system of systems, smart engineering system design, and computational intelligence: neural networks-fuzzy logic-evolutionary programming. Dagli’s contributions to systems engineering began in 1979 with his Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England, titled ”A Methodology for Solving the Long Term Operational Problems of the Lower Firat Basin in Turkey.” This interdisciplinary topic lead to a mathematical programming model-based approach for the solution of this complex water resources system problem. In the intervening years, he continued work on large scale system based problems. He has expertise in modeling architectures for complex engineering systems such as transportation, infrastructure, water resources, and energy distribution using computational intelligence techniques He is the Founder of the Missouri S&T’s system engineering graduate program. Dagli is the Director of the Smart Engineering Systems Laboratory and a Senior Investigator in the DoD Systems Engineering Research Center-URAC. He is an INCOSE Fellow 2008 and IIE Fellow 2009. He has been the PI, Co-PI, or Director of 46 research projects and grants totaling more than $29 million from federal, state, and industrial funding agencies Dagli is the Area Editor for Intelligent Systems of the International Journal of General Systems, published by Taylor and Francis, and Informa, Inc. He has published more than 350 papers in refereed journals and proceedings, 21 edited books, and has been cited 900 times. He has consulted with various companies and international organizations including the Boeing Company, AT&T, John Deere, Motorola, U.S. Army, UNIDO, and OECD.