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A. Terry Bahill
Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering
University of Arizona

Bahill has presented hundreds of seminars and short courses world wide.
Here are abstracts of some of them.

First, here are the general Systems Engineering seminars.

  • What is Systems Engineering?
  • A General Systems Engineering Process
  • Comparison of Engineering Design Methods
  • The Unified Systems Engineering Process Based on UML & SysML
  • Relationship between Tradition Requirements and Use Cases
  • Discovering System Requirements
  • Case Studies & Metrics for Evaluating System Designs
  • Designers Cannot Produce Optimal Systems (theory)
  • Case Studies & Metrics for Evaluating System Designs, part 2
  • Risk Analysis of a Pinewood Derby: A Case Study
  • Sensitivity Analysis; A Powerful Validation Tool
  • Decision Making and Tradeoff Studies
  • Reusability and COTS: a theory paper
  • When are Observable States Necessary?
  • Systems Engineering Started in the Middle
  • The Tower Design and Build Workshop
  • CMMI, a Collection of Best Business Practices
  • Decision Analysis and Resolution
  • The Blackboard Architecture
  • Technical Performance Measures
  • Valid Models Require Defined Levels
  • Fundamental Principles of Good System Design
  • A Priortization Process

    Next, these are more specialized Systems Engineering seminars.

  • The Make-reuse-buy Decision
  • Sensitivity Analysis by Design of Experiments
  • Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
  • Sensitivity Analysis of the QFD Process
  • Wymorian Methodology
  • Distinguishing between Product & Process

    Here are the seminars about baseball. Lest I mislead, these seminars are about systems engineering research. But on some occasions I have tailored them for general audiences.

  • Engineering the Baseball Bat
  • The Batter Can't Keep His Eye on the Ball
  • Ideal Bat Weight: Engineering the Sport of Baseball
  • The Perceptual Illusion of the Rising Fastball
  • A Zachman Framework Populated with Baseball Models
  • The Vertical Sweet Spot of the Baseball Bat
  • Describing Baseball Pitch Movement with Right-Hand Rules
  • What the Batter's Eye Tells the Batter's Brain
  • (a longer version of) What the Batter's Eye Tells the Batter's Brain

    And here are the seminars about decision support systems.

  • What Are Expert Systems
  • Testing Decision Support Systems
  • A Tool for Verifying and Validating Decision Support Systems
  • Five Quantitative Ways of Dealing With Uncertainty
  • Back Propagation in Neural Networks

    These are the bioengineering seminars.

  • Four Eye Movement Control Systems
  • An Adaptive Control Model for the Human Eye Movement System
  • Limitations of the Two-point Central Difference Algorithm
  • An Adaptive Smith Predictor for Time-Delay Systems

    Here are two brown bag seminars specific to BAE Systems.

  • Some New Systems Engineering Concepts
  • Tradeoff Study on Tradeoff Study Tools: A COTS-Based Engineering Process Example

    Here are one, very new, experimental seminar.

  • The Commercial off the Shelf Based Engineering Process

    Finally, here is a list of the references.

  • References

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