Dr. Wiley Larson delivers lunch and learn presentations to corporate sponsors

HOBOKEN, N.J. – At the request of the Boeing Company and Lockheed Martin Mission Systems in Houston, Tex., and Orbital Sciences Corporation in Dulles, Va., Dr. Wiley Larson, Distinguished Service Professor and Director, Space Systems Engineering, at the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology, recently delivered on-site presentations to corporate employees and engineers, recognizing the value of systems engineers to the space systems enterprise.

In his trademark style, Larson treated company representatives to a spirited talk, “Systems Engineers....what good are they?”. Known for his easy-going personality and extensive knowledge and expertise in the space domain, Larson engaged corporate employees in a dialog focused on the key characteristics of “good” systems engineers and the critical role they play across the space systems enterprise.

Larson is a noted author of the textbooks, Space Launch and Transportation Systems: Design and Operations (Larson, Kirkpatrick, Ryan and Weyers, 2005, Military Distribution C); Cost-Effective Space Mission Operations (2 nd Edition, Squibb, Boden and Larson, co-authors and editors, McGraw Hill, 1996, 2006); Human Spaceflight: Mission Analysis and Design (Larson and Pranke, co-authors and editors, McGraw Hill, Feb 1999). Larson’s new book, Applied Space Systems Engineering, is due in early 2009, and is co-authored by Kirkpatrick, Sellers, Thomas and Verma, and will be published by McGraw Hill.

Larson served in the Air Force as a GPS spacecraft engineer, spacecraft launch controller, flight test engineer, spacecraft program manager and Associate Professor of Astronautics. He is currently contributing to US space efforts by creating an integrated set of more than 18 published books detailing how to design, develop, launch and operate space systems.

In addition to directing the space system engineering program at Stevens, Larson is co-author, managing editor and program director of the joint NASA and DOD Space Technology Series at the United States Air Force Academy, Colo., Department of Astronautics, a position he’s held for two decades. He leads efforts of 362 international authors and editors to develop a series of books and tools for space mission analysis and design, as well as space system engineering—payloads, spacecraft, launch systems, operations and infrastructure.

Between 1994 and 2005, Larson co-founded and served as president of Teaching Science and Technology, Inc. (TSTI), a corporation devoted to education and training in astronautics, space systems, operations and technology.

To learn more about Larson and the Space Systems Engineering program at Stevens, visit www.Stevens.edu/SPACE.

About the School of Systems and Enterprises

The School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology, is the largest provider of systems engineering and systems related education to industry and government sponsors worldwide. Utilizing an Open Academic Model the School of Systems and Enterprises (SSE) leverages its global partnerships in industry, government and academia to deliver Graduate Certificate, Master's and Doctoral programs that are highly relevant to the education and skill competency needs of today's working professionals.

SSE courses are offered in convenient, flexible delivery formats including traditional semesters and intensive one-week modules, held on-site at corporate and government sponsor locations, online via Stevens award-winning WebCampus, and at the university’s campus in Hoboken, N.J.

SSE's corporate and government sponsors worldwide include: NASA, FAA, IBM, DoD, Sandia National Laboratories, Lockheed Martin, and L3 Communications, to name a few.

To learn more about the School of Systems and Enterprises, please visit www.stevens.edu/SSE.

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.

Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,040 undergraduate and 3,085 graduate students, and a worldwide online enrollment of 2,250, with a full-time tenured/tenure-track faculty of 140 and more than 200 full-time special faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.  

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