The Systems Engineering Advancement Research Initiative (SEAri) performs collaborative research to address advanced systems engineering challenges. SEAri is structured with four interacting “clusters” that mirror the scientific method as applied to the study of advanced systems engineering. The clusters are Value-driven Socio-Technical Architecting of Systems (V-STARS), Resource-effective Socio-Technical Architecting of Systems (R-STARS), Systems Engineering Field Research (SE-Field), and Systems Engineering Synthesis Research (SE-Synthesis). These clusters undertake related research in a portfolio of topics, whose span will provide a foundation for advancing systems engineering research and practice.

The research group has a strong foundation in the space system design and architecture domain, with more recent work branching into the transportation and infrastructure systems domain. While these domains represent past work and ongoing areas for case study analysis, the methods and practices developed by SEAri aim for truly cross-domain applicability.