Kevin John Forsberg (born 1934) is an American engineer, business consultant, and with

Harold Mooz Harold (Hal) Mooz (born ca. 1932) is an American systems engineer, business consultant and founder and CEO of The Center for Systems Management, Inc., awarded the INCOSE Pioneer Award in 2001. Biography Mooz received his ME in Mechanical Engineer ...

co-founder and executive director of The Center for Systems Management,Kevin Forsberg biography
at incose.org. Accessed October 1, 2013 who was awarded the

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Biography

Forsberg received his BS in

Civil Engineering Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewage ...

from

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

in 1956, and proceeded to study at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

, where he received his MA and in 1961 his PhD in Engineering Mechanics for the thesis "Concentrated load on a shallow elliptic paraboloid." Forsberg started his career working for

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Lockheed Martin Space is one of the four major business divisions of Lockheed Martin. It has its headquarters in Littleton, Colorado, with additional sites in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania; Sunnyvale, California; Santa Cruz, California; Huntsville ...

at the Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, Palo Alto, California. In the mid-1950s he participated in the

Corona program The CORONA program was a series of American strategic reconnaissance satellites produced and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Directorate of Science & Technology with substantial assistance from the U.S. Air Force. The COR ...

. After graduation Forsberg started working for

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at the Center for Systems Management.''NASA SP.'' Scientific and Technical Information Office, National Aeronautics and Space Administration [available from National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Va. 1962. p. xii Late 1960s he returned to Lockheed, where he worked over a decade at the Research Laboratories of the Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, Palo Alto, California. Late 1970s he started as independent business consultant, and co-founded the management training and consulting company The Center for Systems Management, Inc. He is a member of the Project Management Institute and of INCOSE. Forsberg was elected Life-time Fellow by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in 1976; and elected Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) by INCOSE in 2004. He was awarded in 1981 the

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for "his outstanding technical and managerial contributions to the

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Program." With

he is awarded both the

Agency Seal Medal The Agency Seal Medal (formerly Medallion) is awarded by the Central Intelligence Agency to non-Agency personnel, including U.S. Government employees and private citizens, who have made significant contributions to the Agency's intelligence effort ...

and in 2001 the

acknowledging "Working as a team with Kevin Forsberg, he has pioneered and tirelessly promoted the concept of the integration of system engineering and project management into a single seamless process. In addition to his own work on complex development projects, he has taught thousands of professionals around the globe, both through tutorials and presentations and through his book, written with Dr.Forsberg, “''Visualizing Project Management''”."

Selected publications

Forsberg has authored and co-authored several books on systems engineering and project management. A selection: * Forsberg, Kevin, ''The Social Side of Technical Engineering: a Case Study''. 1956. * Forsberg, Kevin, ''Concentrated load on a shallow elliptic paraboloid''. Thesis Division of Engineering Mechanics, Stanford University. 1961. * Forsberg, Kevin,

Hal Mooz Harold (Hal) Mooz (born ca. 1932) is an American systems engineer, business consultant and founder and CEO of The Center for Systems Management, Inc., awarded the INCOSE Pioneer Award in 2001. Biography Mooz received his ME in Mechanical Engineer ...

, and Howard Cotterman. ''Visualizing project management: a model for business and technical success''. John Wiley and Sons, 2000. * C Haskins, K Forsberg. ''Systems Engineering Handbook: A Guide for System Life Cycle Processes and Activities''; INCOSE, 2011 Articles, a selection: * Forsberg, Kevin. "Influence of boundary conditions on the modal characteristics of thin cylindrical shells." ''AIAA journal'' 2.12 (1964): . * Forsberg, Kevin, and

. "The relationship of system engineering to the project cycle." ''Proceedings of the First Annual Symposium of National Council on System Engineering''. October 1991: 57–65. * Forsberg, Kevin, and

. "System engineering for faster, cheaper, better." ''1999 Ninth annual international symposium (INCOSE), Brighton, England. 1999''. *

Mooz, Harold Harold (Hal) Mooz (born ca. 1932) is an American systems engineer, business consultant and founder and CEO of The Center for Systems Management, Inc., awarded the INCOSE Pioneer Award in 2001. Biography Mooz received his ME in Mechanical Enginee ...

, and Kevin Forsberg. "The dual vee—illuminating the management of complexity." ''Proc 16th Annu Int Symp INCOSE, Orlando, FL. 2006''.

References

External links

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