Benjamin Seaver Blanchard, Jr. (July 20, 1929 - July 11, 2019) was an American systems engineer and Emeritus Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at

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, who was awarded the

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jointly with Wolt Fabrycky as "practitioner, teacher, and advocate of Systems Engineering."INCOSE Fellow Ben Blanchard
at ''sie.arizona.edu''. Accessed October 1, 2013.

Biography

Blanchard received his BS in

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from the

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in 1951, and did some graduate coursework in Electrical Engineering. In 1969, he received his MBA from the

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as part of an Executive Development Program. In the early 1950s, Blanchard started working at

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, where he became electronics maintenance officer. In 1953, he moved to industry working as engineer in the fields of design, field service, staff and management with Boeing Commercial Airplanes,

Sanders Associates Sanders Associates was a defense contractor in Nashua, New Hampshire, United States, from 1951 until it was sold in 1986. It is now part of BAE Systems Electronics & Integrated Solutions, a subsidiary of BAE Systems. It concentrated on developin ...

, Bendix Corporation, and General Dynamics. In 1970, he was appointed Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at

, where he served until his retirement in 1997.Benjamin S. Blanchard
at ''ise.vt.edu''. Accessed October 1, 2013. At Virginia Tech Blanchard has been Assistant Dean of the College of Engineering, and he has been Visiting Professor at the

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. Blanchard has been president of the

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, and in 2000 was awarded the

for his contributions as "practitioner, teacher, and advocate of Systems Engineering. His service, as a team member with Dr. Wolt Fabrycky, allowed them to articulate the principles and objectives of Systems Engineering in a manner that conveys the tremendous potential and value added by this discipline.". Ben passed after a brief illness on July 11. 2019, at his residence in Charlottesville, Virginia, surrounded by his family.

Publications

Blanchard has authored and co-authored several textbooks and numerous articles. A selection: * Blanchard, Benjamin S., and Wolter J. Fabrycky. ''Systems engineering and analysis. 5th Ed''. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2010. * Blanchard, Benjamin S. ''Design and manage to life cycle cost''. Oregon: M/A Press, 1978. * Fabrycky, Wolter J., and Benjamin S. Blanchard. Life-cycle cost and economic analysis. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1991. * Blanchard, Benjamin S. ''Maintainability: A key to effective serviceability and maintenance management''. Vol. 13. John Wiley & Sons, 1995. * Blanchard, Benjamin S. ''System engineering management''. Vol. 4. Wiley, 2003.

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Benjamin S. Blanchard
at Virginia Tech {{DEFAULTSORT:Blanchard, Benjamin S 1929 births 2019 deaths 21st-century American engineers University of Maine alumni University of Rochester alumni Virginia Tech faculty Bendix Corporation people