[Announcement] Marvin Young from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa will give a virtual talk titled: “Role of Systems Engineering in Aerospace” on Thursday, October 29, 15:00-16:00 HST.
Zoom: https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/99861316992
Abstract – Aerospace systems are often very complex and dicult to successfully develop and field. Although there have been major technological advancements in aerospace, there have been numerous failures that have been attributed to a lack of, or inadequate systems engineering. The seminar provides a brief overview of the system engineering process and provides examples of several aerospace system engineering failures. These examples point out that utilizing basic system engineering principles could have prevented these failures and more importantly, using these basic rules can have major impacts, either success or failure.
About the Speaker – Dr. Young is an Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. He graduated from Purdue University, Stanford, and the University of California. Dr. Young worked as an assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine. He taught undergraduate and graduate classes in thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, energy systems, and turbulent heat transfer. He received NSF, DOE, and McDonnell Douglas Corporation Research Grants to support his research on mixed convention heat and mass transfer, alternative energy systems and rocket propulsion.
He has over 30 years of experience with advanced engineering products for aerospace applications and has been involved with Aerojet Rocketdyne in a management capacity. When he joined the company, he was named Manager of Thermal Systems Engineering. He later became Program Director of Space Systems, where he created strategic business plans and was responsible for cost management and interfacing with customers to ensure that their scheduling requirements for projects were being met. In 1995, he became Director of Mechanical Engineering where he supervised over 300 engineers and was directly responsible for the performance of the Mechanical Engineering Center of Excellence. He was later promoted to Vice President of Engineering overseeing an organization of over 1500 mechanical, electrical, systems, and software engineers. The team developed rocket propulsion systems, used for defense and aerospace applications. He served as the company’s chief technical spokesperson and was responsible for certification of all design layouts and analyses.
In 2015, Dr. Young was appointed to the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) where he served until 2019. The U.S. Air Force SAB plays an important role in looking into the future to help identify and enable affordable technological pre-eminence for the U.S. Air Force and the nation. Members of the SAB are appointed by the Secretary of Defense and
are selected from the nation’s top technical and engineering leaders.
In 2017, Dr. Young was awarded the Robert H. Goddard Space Propulsion Pioneer Award for his many technical contributions to the field of space propulsion.
very nice