INCOSE Fellow Bill McCumber

Professor William H. McCumber, Jr. (deceased) was a systems engineer and educator. He was President of EagleRidge Technologies, Inc., a software and systems consulting firm. He was also a professor at the University of Maryland (University College), where he taught graduate courses in systems engineering.

Until February, 1999, he served as Senior Systems Engineer at Lockheed Martin Software and Systems Resource Center, Gaithersburg, Maryland. He worked as lead consultant for systems engineering, architecture, course development, and training. Past projects include systems engineering for the Saturn lunar landing launch vehicle, for military applications of the space shuttle, for national benefit solar energy heating, cooling, and hot water systems, plus many others.

He was Technical Chairman for the 1993 Third International Symposium of the National Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), and was Chairman of the INCOSE Principles Working Group.

Professor McCumber holds a BSEE from the University of Oklahoma, MSE from the University of Alabama (Huntsville) and Ph.D. from the University of Houston. He was a registered professional engineer in the states of Texas and Alabama.

Bill lived and worked from a cabin in the woods of east Tennessee.

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