Logo INCOSE Fellow Dinesh Verma

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Dinesh Verma received the Ph.D. and the M.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech. He is currently serving as the Associate Dean for Outreach and Professor in Systems Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology.

Prior to joining Stevens Institute, Verma served as a Technical Director with a focus on Systems and Supportability Strategy at Lockheed Martin Undersea Systems, in Manassas, Virginia, where his duties included development of adapted systems and supportability engineering processes, methods and tools for complex system development and integration. Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, Verma worked as a Research Scientist at Virginia Tech and managed the University's Systems Engineering Design Laboratory. While at Virginia Tech and afterwards, Verma has served in a consulting capacity with numerous companies to include Eastman Kodak, United Defense, PSI, VOLVO Car Corporation (Sweden), NOKIA (Finland), RAMSE (Finland), Johnson Controls, Ericsson-SAAB Avionics (Sweden), and Motorola. His professional and research activities emphasize systems engineering and design with a focus on conceptual design evaluation, preliminary system design and system architecture, design decision-making, life cycle costing, and supportability engineering. In addition to his publications, Verma has patents pending in the areas of system life-cycle costing and fuzzy logic techniques for evaluating conceptual system designs.

Verma has authored over 75 technical papers, book reviews, technical monographs, and co-authored two textbooks: Maintainability: A Key to Effective Serviceability and Maintenance Management (Wiley, 1995), and Economic Decision Analysis (Prentice Hall, 1998). He was awarded the Author of the Year Award by Lockheed Martin Undersea Systems in 1999, the Outstanding Paper Presentation Award at the INCOSE Symposium (Boston) in 1996, the President's Award of Merit by the Society of Logistics Engineers in 1993 and 1999, and received the Young Logistician of the Year Award in 1992.

Dr. Verma serves on the Board of Directors for the RAMS Symposia and on the Board of Governors of the Logistics Education Foundation. He is a Fellow of the International Council on Systems Engineering, a senior member of SOLE, and was elected to Sigma Xi, the honorary research society of America.

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