What I learnt at Boeing

Speaker: Peter Lindsay

When: 4:00, Friday, 3 September 2004

Venue: 78-420

I've recently returned after spending 2 months on a Welliver Fellowship with Boeing in the USA. The purpose of the trip was to observe how systems engineering is done at Boeing, to improve the relevance to companies like Boeing of the teaching & research done at UQ. There were 10 of us on the Fellowship this year - the other 9 being professors from a range of aerospace-related engineering disciplines at top US universities.

I visited 3 very different Boeing sites: NASA Systems at Huntington Beach CA; Air Traffic Management at McLean VA; and Airborne Early Warning & Control at Kent WA. This gave good opportunity to observe systems engineering practices in programs that are at fundamentally different points in the lifecycle: from concept development (ATM), through development (AEW&C), and in maintenance/upgrade (Shuttle Return to Flight and International Space Station). The other Fellows visited a range of other sites, and we came together for the last week to compare notes.

The talk will be very informal.

Hospitality: Phil Cook

Contact: Phil Cook (SSE seminar co-ordinator) (philc@itee.uq.edu.au)

SSE seminar web page: http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~sse/Seminars.html