INCOSE Fellow John Velman

John Velman retired from Boeing Satellite Systems (formerly Hughes Space and Communications) in late 2001. His current interests are in applications of ontological analysis, knowledge representation, logic, and logic programming to systems engineering. His areas of responsibility at Hughes and Boeing included management of participation in international and national standardization activities, management of the Hughes Space and Communications patent portfolio, and membership in the Hughes Corporate Fellowship Selection Committee. He has been Manager of the Dynamics and Controls Department and Manager of the Systems Design Laboratory of Hughes Space and Communications. He was one of the presenters for the Hughes Systems Engineering Seminars given to GM Europe. His work on spacecraft attitude dynamics and control has been widely referenced, and his work in statistical communications is discussed in a recent graduate text.

Dr. Velman has been a member of the Standards Executive Council of the AIAA, a member of the US Technical Advisory Group for ISO TC20 SC14, Space Systems and Operations, and US lead for the Program Management Working Group of this ISO subcommittee. He was a member of the ANSI/EIA-632 Technical Committee that formulated this American National Standard for Engineering of Systems. He has been co-chair of the INCOSE Standards Technical Committee, Chair of the INCOSE Education and Training Technical Committee, a member of the INCOSE Technical Board, and Chair of the INCOSE Corporate Advisory Board. He is a member of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society.

Velman has a M.S. and Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Southern California, a B.S. in Meteorology and Climatology from the University of Washington, and a B.S. in Science from the California Institute of Technology.

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