Research

Systems and Enterprise Architecting Laboratory

The Systems and Enterprises Architecting Laboratory (SEAL) at Stevens Institute of Technology provides a platform for innovative teaching methods, research and industry collaboration. The lab offers physical, on-site presence as well as virtual presence for remote access and collaboration. The physical presence of the lab includes a combined team room/computer lab as well as the adjacent classroom. This allows the lab to accommodate large- and small scale co-located groups. The virtual presence provides an infrastructure for on-line, interactive team collaboration, as well as -


• Teaching
  The lab will provide a collaborative environment for system architecting, design and integration to be used as an integral part of course project work. This will include:
  - Use of state of the art requirements management and systems engineering tools
  - A “war-room” style ambience for intensive, collaborative team work
  - An on-line collaboration environment for off-site students to work “virtually” on their student projects
  - On-site as well as on-line project reviews
  
  Some of the software available in the facility for students include:
  - CORE
  - DOORS
  - Rational Rose Suite
  - UGS Teamcenter Requirements/System Architect
  - METIS
  - Telelogic System Architect
  - Telelogic Tau
  - Matlab
  - AnyLogic
  - Stella/iThink
  
  The facility contains two state of the art video conferencing facilities.
  
  
• Research
  The lab will support research initiatives in several ways. First of all it will provide a collaborative, computational and application infrastructure that would not be feasible/affordable to make available on individual desktops. Secondly it will provide an environment for explicit research on (tool supported) systems engineering methods and processes. Especially interesting in the context of this laboratory is “e-Systems Engineering” and virtual collaboration. This could be dedicated research projects as well as well as “piggy back” research using student projects and industry collaborations.
  
  
• Industry Collaboration
  The SEAL can offer value to commercial and government organizations in several ways. Some possibilities are:
  - An off-site retreat for system architecting and design teams for intensive collaboration on system definition efforts as well as milestone reviews;
  - Methodology, process and tool trainings for either corporate/government users, possibly in cooperation with tool vendors; and
  - Development and evaluation of tool supported methods and processes in cooperation with tool vendors and/or corporate/government users.