SECESA 2018
The European Space Agency (Technical and Quality Management Directorate and Concurrent Design Facility), in collaboration with the University of Strathclyde, is organising the 8th International Systems & Concurrent Engineering for Space Applications Conference at the Technology & Innovation Centre (TIC), in Glasgow, on 26-28 September 2018.
Held on a biannual basis, the Conference aims to foster networking and exchange of ideas, experiences, lessons learned and future trends in the area of Systems and Concurrent Engineering (SE&CE), for agencies, companies, organizations, universities and institutes involved in space and related activities.
The first two editions of the Concurrent Engineering Workshops (CEW) were held at ESTEC in 2004 and 2006, focussing on the novelties of the early Concurrent Engineering design centres, methodology and applications.
In 2008 the Workshop objectives were expanded to the vast field of Systems Engineering (SE), and the event was named SECESA: “Systems Engineering and Concurrent Engineering for Space Applications”.
Since then, SECESA has been hosted at different European University premises, and co-organised by academia chosen via a formal selection process.
This approach enables the Universities to showcase specific areas or projects where students are excelling at utilising SE and CE approaches as well as accomplishing the Agency educational objective of inspiring young generations of engineers with new methodology and approaches for Systems Engineering by facilitating their participation to the technical sessions.
La Sapienza University of Rome welcomed SECESA 2008 for the first time outside ESTEC; SECESA 2010 was hosted by the EPFL in Lausanne (Switzerland); SECESA 2012 was held in Lisbon (Portugal), at the Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST), with the innovative element of including in the programme the contents of the NASA-ESA Workshop on Product Data Exchange, via a dedicated session. The Institute of Space Systems (IRS) of the University of Stuttgart hosted SECESA 2014, the first edition where the event was officially designated with the appellative of “Conference”, acknowledgment of a well-established forum of excellence. SECESA 2016, the latest edition, was held at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Aeronáutica y del Espacio (ETSIAE) of Madrid where the large attendance confirmed the role of the Conference as reference for the Systems and Concurrent Engineering community, in Europe and abroad.
2018 will be the year of Glasgow: Strathclyde University has attended SECESA 2016 and was proclaimed host of our next edition in the course of the Conference Dinner, at the Restaurant Cien Llaves. The Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering has a Concurrent Design Facility, named the Concurrent and Collaborative Design Studio (CCDS), located in the same building where the conference will be held. The students study space system during part of their course of studies and recently participated to the first ESA Academy's Concurrent Engineering Challenge (http://www.esa.int/Education/ESA_Academy/Concurrent_Engineering_Challenge_Call_for_student_applications).
Held on a biannual basis, the Conference aims to foster networking and exchange of ideas, experiences, lessons learned and future trends in the area of Systems and Concurrent Engineering (SE&CE), for agencies, companies, organizations, universities and institutes involved in space and related activities.
The first two editions of the Concurrent Engineering Workshops (CEW) were held at ESTEC in 2004 and 2006, focussing on the novelties of the early Concurrent Engineering design centres, methodology and applications.
In 2008 the Workshop objectives were expanded to the vast field of Systems Engineering (SE), and the event was named SECESA: “Systems Engineering and Concurrent Engineering for Space Applications”.
Since then, SECESA has been hosted at different European University premises, and co-organised by academia chosen via a formal selection process.
This approach enables the Universities to showcase specific areas or projects where students are excelling at utilising SE and CE approaches as well as accomplishing the Agency educational objective of inspiring young generations of engineers with new methodology and approaches for Systems Engineering by facilitating their participation to the technical sessions.
La Sapienza University of Rome welcomed SECESA 2008 for the first time outside ESTEC; SECESA 2010 was hosted by the EPFL in Lausanne (Switzerland); SECESA 2012 was held in Lisbon (Portugal), at the Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST), with the innovative element of including in the programme the contents of the NASA-ESA Workshop on Product Data Exchange, via a dedicated session. The Institute of Space Systems (IRS) of the University of Stuttgart hosted SECESA 2014, the first edition where the event was officially designated with the appellative of “Conference”, acknowledgment of a well-established forum of excellence. SECESA 2016, the latest edition, was held at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Aeronáutica y del Espacio (ETSIAE) of Madrid where the large attendance confirmed the role of the Conference as reference for the Systems and Concurrent Engineering community, in Europe and abroad.
2018 will be the year of Glasgow: Strathclyde University has attended SECESA 2016 and was proclaimed host of our next edition in the course of the Conference Dinner, at the Restaurant Cien Llaves. The Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering has a Concurrent Design Facility, named the Concurrent and Collaborative Design Studio (CCDS), located in the same building where the conference will be held. The students study space system during part of their course of studies and recently participated to the first ESA Academy's Concurrent Engineering Challenge (http://www.esa.int/Education/ESA_Academy/Concurrent_Engineering_Challenge_Call_for_student_applications).
