 John Boardman
john.boardman@boardmansauser.com
John Boardman graduated with 1st Class Honors in Electrical Engineering in
1967 from the University of Liverpool, from where he also obtained his PhD in 1970. His industrial experience has been gained primarily with GEC, having worked for them as an apprentice electrical engineer, then power plant designer, and finally in information processing, initially as a computer programmer and then as a systems analyst. He also worked for MANWEB, a UK regional electrical utility, on CAD systems for electricity distribution networks.
He is currently engaged as Distinguished Service Professor in the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology. He teaches graduate level courses in 'Systems Thinking' and 'Architecting the Extended Enterprise' and leads the School's research program in Enterprise Architecting. Prior to this role he served as Professor of Systems Engineering at De Montfort University, Leicester where over a period of 7 years he gained external research funding, from industry and government in excess of $5 million.
Dr. Boardman's previous academic appointments have taken him from the University of Liverpool, through Brighton Polytechnic and Georgia Institute of Technology to the University of Portsmouth, which he joined in 1990 as GEC Marconi Professor of Systems Engineering and founding Director of the School of Systems Engineering. In 1994 he became founding Dean of the College of Technology at the University of Portsmouth.
He has over 60 refereed publications to his credit and a textbook published by Prentice Hall: 'Introduction to Systems Engineering'. His seminal work on a soft systems methodology and, in particular, on systemigrams, a graphical notation for capturing strategic intent in extended enterprises, has been recognized internationally. He founded a thriving systems and management consultancy - John Boardman Associates Ltd. in the UK - through which he has consulted to Schlumberger, GEC Marconi, the Commission of European Communities, Rolls-Royce, and the BBC.
Dr. Boardman is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution
of Engineering and Technology.
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 Brian Sauser
brian.sauser@boardmansauser.com
Brian Sauser holds a B.S. from Texas A&M University in Agricultural Development with an emphasis in Horticulture Technology, a M.S. from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in Bioresource Engineering, and a Ph.D. from Stevens Institute of Technology in Project Management. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology.
Before joining Stevens in 2005, he spent more than 12 years working in government, industry, and academia both as a researcher/engineer and director of programs. He has managed an applied research and development laboratory in life sciences and engineering at NASA Johnson Space Center, was Program Director of the New Jersey - NASA Specialized Center of Research and Training, where he managed a multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary science and engineering research center working to generate new knowledge and technology for life support systems, and was a Project Specialist with ASRC Aerospace responsible for managing technology utilization and assessment, and commercial partnership development at NASA Kennedy Space Center. In his current position at Stevens in the School of Systems and Enterprises he is the Director of the Systems Engineering Management Program.
His research interests are in theories, tools, and methods for bridging the gap between systems engineering and project management for managing complex systems. This includes the advancement of systems theory in the pursuit of a biology of systems, system and enterprise maturity assessment for system and enterprise management, and systems engineering capability assessment.
His work in systems theory with Dr. John Boardman has resulted in an insightful new book, Systems Thinking: Coping with 21st Century Problems.
His work on system maturity assessment has been nationally recognized and adopted as a decision support tool by organizations within NASA, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, Northrop Grumman, and Lockheed Martin. His work in systems engineering capability assessment resulted in Dr. Sauser being awarded a NASA Faculty Fellowship from which NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) has adopted his methods to define systems engineering career development and training for their systems engineering workforce.
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