Dinesh Verma elected as Fellow of the International Council on Systems Engineering; honored by IBM

A Stevens Institute of Technology professor, Dr. Dinesh Verma, has been honored by his colleagues with his election as a Fellow of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE).
Separately, Verma has been selected by the IBM Corporation to receive a special faculty award in recognition of his academic work in the area of systems engineering. The award consists of a cash component of $40,000 given annually for up to three years to facilitate research in systems engineering and integration.

INCOSE is a not-for-profit technical society founded in 1990. It is an international authoritative body promoting the application of an interdisciplinary approach to the realization of effective complex systems. The INCOSE Fellows Board recommends candidates to the Society's Executive Board, which then elects the new Fellows. The vote took place in March.

Verma has distinguished himself as an architect of several highly successful systems engineering programs. He currently serves as a Professor in the Systems Engineering and Engineering Management (SEEM) department at Stevens. He is also Director of an executive graduate program in Systems Design and Operational Effectiveness (SDOE), which recently celebrated its first academic year. Verma serves, too, as Associate Dean for Outreach of the Schaefer School of Engineering at Stevens.

"Dinesh has been elected a Fellow of INCOSE at the ripe old age of 37 - a pretty remarkable achievement, and a reflection of his stellar career performance," said John Farr, SEEM Department Director.

Under Verma's direction, the SDOE program has grown in one year to include 40 executive master's candidates and several Ph.D. candidates. The program has also introduced a series of international modules that Verma oversees personally in India, Sweden, Norway and Finland. Stevens' programs have also been selected by IBM Global Service to provide its employees with all systems engineering-related education. A similar collaboration exists with Lockheed-Martin Naval Electronics and Surveillance Systems. Verma is also working with IBM to develop systems engineering templates for use within the information technology industry.

"The SDOE program as developed by Dinesh and our collaborators is growing rapidly into an internationally renowned, revolutionary teaching model for this new engineering field dealing with 'systems of systems,'" said Bernard Gallois, Dean of the Schaefer School of Engineering at Stevens.

Verma's areas of research interest include product development, conceptual system design, system architecture, life cycle costing, and system supportability.

He holds a doctorate (1994) in industrial and systems engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and a Master of Science degree (1991) also from Virginia Polytech. He is the author of numerous professional journal articles and conference publications. Verma is also a party to several patent applications and has contributed to or written a number of textbooks and monographs. He also has been an invited presenter in numerous venues nationally and internationally.

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