International Council on Systems Engineering

Our guest today is Brian Watson, assistant professor of systems engineering in the electrical engineering and computer science department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and the founder of the biologically inspired Design for Resilience Lab, also known as the BID4R Lab.

brian's career began at the united states naval academy where he earned a bachelor's degree in systems engineering in two thousand and nine from there he spent eight years in the nuclear navy serving as a submarine officer aboard the u s s louisville and later at the naval prototype training unit He's also deeply involved in the broader systems engineering community through his leadership with the INCOSE technical program committee.

And perhaps one of the most interesting things about Brian's story is that throughout all these different chapters, military service, engineering, research, teaching, and professional leadership, the common thread seems to be resilience.

Brian, welcome to the podcast.

I mean, OpenMBE has been around, the community has been around for, for quite a while.

We are going to have our 11th workshop at the INCOSE IW in, in, in January.

Wow.

Uh, the activities have started long, long, long, long before that.

Um, and I think we're hoping that they will converge.

Um, but those are just the runtime elements.

There's also, uh, a wiki where we're working with, um, Sandy Friedenthal to con- kind of consolidate a broader set of, uh, community assets, right? Like, um, how-tos and FAQs and links and explanation to, you know, how the standards body fits in, how the INCOSE community fits in, how to make libraries.

So if you look at, you know, Doug Rosenberg's recent release of his structured use cases library, that's a part of OpenSysML too.