INCOSE academic research forum — Future systems engineering research directions

This paper describes a program organized by the INCOSE Academic Council to determine future directions in systems engineering (SE) research. This program uses a framework coupling societal need to systems challenges, then to gaps in the capabilities of SE, which inform the direction of future SE research. The results of the first workshop are presented including a description of the grand challenges in the four selected areas of societal needs, problem definitions, desired results, obstacles and related research questions. The paper concludes with a summary and description of the future work for this program.