 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 provides a collaborative environment for system architecting, design and integration used as an integral part of course project work. This includes:
- Use of state of the art requirements management and systems engineering tool
- 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
The lab includes computers equipped with industry standard software tools for Requirements Management, Systems and Enterprise Modeling, and Multi-purpose Modeling and Simulation Tools.
The facility contains two state of the art video conferencing facilities.
Research
The lab supports research initiatives in several ways. It provides 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 offers value to commercial and government organizations in several ways. Including:
- 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, 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.
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For more information about SEAL, contact:
Eirik Hole
Director, SEAL
Babbio 535
ehole@stevens.edu |
