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Dr. Ricardo Valerdi is a Professor in the Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering. His research focuses on systems engineering, cost estimation, and sports analytics. He was the Founder and co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Enterprise Transformation and was the current Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cost Analysis and Parametrics. He is a Fellow of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), a foreign member of the Mexican Academy of Engineering, and a visiting fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering. He was a visiting professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point and a Fulbright Scholar at Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (Spain). Valerdi is also UA’s Faculty Athletics Representative for the PAC-12 and NCAA.Show Less
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Courses
- STSMSpecial Topics in Sports Management
- CECost Estimation
- SASports Analytics
- ISIEMPSIntroduction to SIE Methods: Probability and Statistics
- TSEPThe Systems Engineering Process
- MBSEModel-Based Systems Engineering
- ISIEMSPIntroduction to SIE Methods: Stochastic Processes
- MBSEModel Based Systems Engineering
- ISIEMLPIntroduction to SIE Methods: Linear Programming
Grants
- Fixed Price Project Services Agreement for Student Organization Sponsorship
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$1.0K
Active - Engineering Student Organization Support - Project Agreement
Co-Investigator (COI)
2021
$15.0K
Active - Service Agreement for ENGR Student Organizational Support
Co-Investigator (COI)
2021
$1.5K
Active - STEM, Growth Mindset, and Sports: Investigating STEM Program Design Features that Impact Youth Engagement
Principal Investigator (PI)
2020
$1.9M
Active - Systems Engineering and Program Management Cost Support
Principal Investigator (PI)
2020
$40.0K
- Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories A3C IRAD Program
Principal Investigator (PI)
2020
$20.0K
- Systems Engineering and Program Management Cost Support
Principal Investigator (PI)
2020
$4.0K
- Cost Estimating & Analysis Support
Principal Investigator (PI)
2019
$45.0K
- A Distributed Intelligence Framework for Cyber and Electromagnetic Technologies to Support Expeditionary Cyber as a Socio-technical Challenge
Principal Investigator (PI)
2018
$148.0K
- West Point Sabbatical
Principal Investigator (PI)
2017
$148.0K
Technologies / Patents
News
- ABOR Confirms Five New UArizona Regents Professors
2020
- UA Engineer Appointed as Faculty Athletics Representative
2017
- From West Point to UA: Engineering Grad Earns Fellowship
2016
- UA-Built Concussion App in NCAA Competition
2016
- App Makes Athletes Think About Concussions
2015
- UA Employees, Programs Honored Locally, Nationally
2014
- College of Engineering Program for Middle Schoolers Drives Home STEM
2013
- Baseball Science Program Brings Kids Closer to Math, Physics
2012
Publications (193)
Recent
- Lessons From the Father of Software Engineering
2023
- Students’ Systems Thinking Competencies Level Identification through Concept Maps Assessment
2023
- Integrating Model-Based Systems and Digital Engineering for Crewed Mars Mission Planning
2022
- Field Test of PSA Message Framing on Mask Wearing
2021
- SIE 464-564 Cost Estimation
2016
- Characterizing the impact of requirements volatility on systems engineering effort
2015
- Pioneers of Parametrics: Origins and Evolution of Software Cost Estimation
2015
- Costing for an Autonomous Future: A Discussion on Estimation for Unmanned Autonomous Systems
2015
- 25 Heathrow Terminal 5
2015
- Reliability Improvement of Major Defense Acquisition Program Cost Estimates—Mapping DoDAF to COSYSMO
2015
- Exploiting architectural communities in early life cycle cost estimation
2014
- A cost--benefit framework for assessing advanced manufacturing technology development: A case study
2014
- Guest editorial special section on IoT
2014
- A systems approach to healthcare efficiency improvement
2014
- Improving cyber resiliency of cloud application services by applying Software Behavior Encryption (SBE)
2014
- On the Shoulders of Giants: A Tribute to Prof. Barry W. Boehm
2014
- 3.3. 1 A Generalized Systems Engineering Reuse Framework and Its Cost Estimating Relationship
2014
- Farewell and Acknowledgement to Nicolene Hengen--JET's Inaugural Managing Editor
2014
- Report on the 2013 Workshop of INCOSE's Systems Engineering and Architecting Doctoral Student Network
2013
- Successful adoption of software process improvement models: A cultural-methodological proposal
2013
- 6.3. 1 COSYSMO Calibration Steps and Results
2013
- Quantifying systems engineering reuse - A generalized reuse framework in COSYSMO
2013
- Challenges and opportunities for enterprise transformation research
2013
- Network science enabled cost estimation in support of MBSE
2013
- Systems thinking: A comparison between Chinese and Western approaches
2013
- COSYSMO calibration steps and results
2013
- 9.2. 2 Quantifying Systems Engineering Reuse--a Generalized Reuse Framework in COSYSMO
2013
- Analyzing and handling local bias for calibrating parametric cost estimation models
2013
- Measures of Effectiveness for STEM Program: The Arizona Science of Baseball
2013
- Quantifying Uncertainty in Early f C f Lifecycle Cost Estimation for DOD MDAPs
2012
- Guest editorial special section on enterprise systems
2012
- Seven Years and Counting: The 2012 Workshop of INCOSE's Systems Engineering and Architecting Doctoral Student Network
2012
- Guest editorial integrated healthcare information systems
2012
- optimism in Cost estimation
2012
- The Top 12 Signs You Are a Systems Engineer
2012
- Special issue on through life cost estimating
2012
- Teaching Them How to Fish: Industry-Focused Student Projects in Systems Engineering
2012
- Harmonising software engineering and systems engineering cost estimation
2012
- Teaching them how to fish
2012
- How Engineers Really Think About Risk: A Study of JPL Engineers
2011
- 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
2011
- Convergence of expert opinion via the wideband delphi method
2011
- How Weapon Systems are Like Jelly Beans: Prediction Markets as an Information Aggregation Tool for Effective Project Management in Defense Acquisition Projects
2011
- Impact of software resource estimation research on practice: A preliminary report on achievements, synergies, and challenges
2011
- Feature performance metrics for software as a service offering
2011
- Cost Estimating Methodology for Very Small Satellites
2011
- Local bias and its impacts on the performance of parametric estimation models
2011
- System Interoperability Influence on System of Systems Engineering Effort
2011
- An Introduction to the Journal of Enterprise Transformation
2011
- Convergence of expert opinion via the wideband delphi method: An application in cost estimation models
2011
- Enterprise Transformation: Why are we interested, What is it, and What are the challenges?
2011
- Message from the program chairs
2011
- 10.4. 2 Convergence of Expert Opinion via the Wideband Delphi Method: An Application in Cost Estimation Models
2011
- Underestimation in the when it gets worse before it gets better phenomenon in process improvement
2011
- A study of the effects of professional society development on the advancement of the profession: The systems engineering example
2010
- Use of the Air Force HSI Requirements Pocket Guide to Improve Writing and Interpretation of Human-Centered Requirements
2010
- Parametric Cost Estimation for Human Systems Integration
2010
- Report from the 2010 Workshop of INCOSE's Systems Engineering and Architecting Doctoral Student Network (SEANET)
2010
- Insights from enterprise assessment: How to analyze LESAT results for enterprise transformation
2010
- The role of complexities in systems engineering cost estimating processes
2010
- Highlights from the 2009 Conference on Systems Engineering Research and Systems Engineering and Architecting Doctoral Network
2010
- Development, Validation and Implementation Considerations of a Decision Support System for Unmanned Autonomous System of Systems Test Evaluation
2010
- Normative and descriptive models for test evaluation of unmanned and autonomous systems of systems
2010
- Cost and risk considerations for Test and Evaluation of Unmanned and Autonomous systems of systems
2010
- Unmanned and Autonomous Systems of Systems Test and Evaluation: Challenges and Opportunities
2010
- The F119 Engine: A Success Story of Human Systems Integration in Acquisition
2010
- 4.4. 3 A Study of the Effects of Professional Society Development on the Advancement of the Profession: The Systems Engineering Example
2010
- Portfolio Risk Index: Characterizing Risk at the Portfolio Level
2010
- Better Requirements Decomposition Guidelines Can Improve Cost Estimation of Systems Engineering and Human Systems Integration
2010
- 5.2. 2 Normative and Descriptive Models for Test Evaluation of Unmanned and Autonomous Systems of Systems
2010
- Lessons learned about mixed methods research strategies in systems engineering: Evidence from PhD dissertations
2010
- COSYSMO COSYSMO-R Parameter Estimation Biases
2010
- Leveraging measurement systems to drive enterprise transformation: Two case studies from the US aerospace industry
2010
- Brazil: INCOSE's New Frontier
2010
- Adaptive Test Strategies Using PATFrame
2010
- Organizational Assessment: An Essential Tool for Enterprise Transformation
2010
- 6.3. 2 Organizational Assessment Models for Enterprise Transformation
2010
- Systems Engineering Leading Indicators Guide, Version 2.0
2010
- Test and evaluation of a SoS using a prescriptive and adaptive testing framework
2010
- When More is Better: Design Principles for Prediction Markets in Defense Acquisition Cost Forecasting
2010
- Wuhan, China 19-20 December 2010
2010
- Automating Systems Engineering Risk Assessment
2010
- Identification and Prioritization of High-Value Test Scenarios for Autonomous Systems Via Architectural Analysis
2010
- Towards a framework of research methodology choices in Systems Engineering
2010
- A Systematic Approach to Estimate the Life Cycle Cost and Effort of Project Management for Technology Centric Systems Development Projects
2010
- An organizational assessment process in support of enterprise transformation
2010
- Extending systems engineering leading indicators for human systems integration effectiveness
2010
- Practical Software and Systems Measurement: A Foundation for Objective Project Management
2010
- Application of Prediction Markets for Cost and Risk Assessment in Defense Acquisition Programs
2010
- Better requirements decomposition guidelines can improve cost estimation of systems engineering and human systems integration 8th Annual Conference on Systems Engineering Research
2010
- A Prescriptive and Adaptive Framework for UAS SoS Testing in LVC Environment
2010
- Organizational assessment models for enterprise transformation
2010
- Metrics for Enterprise Transformation
2009
- 2.2. 2 Harmonizing Systems and Software Cost Estimation
2009
- Using Cost Models to Capture Project Risk: A Knowledge-Based Approach
2009
- 5.2. 2 The Culture of Innovation Styles: Are our Corporate Cultures Tuned for Innovation?
2009
- Approaches to Calculating Systems Engineering Schedule in Parametric Cost Models
2009
- 2.2. 1 Towards a Holistic, Total Engineering Cost Model
2009
- The human element of decision making in systems engineers: A focus on optimism
2009
- Towards a holistic, total engineering cost model
2009
- Predictors of Adoption of Measurement Tools
2009
- Curriculum guidelines for graduate degree programs in software engineering
2009
- Re-conceptualizing the Work of Systems Engineers
2009
- Definition and initial validation of a systems engineering reuse model
2009
- The culture of innovation styles
2009
- 10.1. 1 An Exploration of Matching Teaching to the Learning Preferences of Systems Engineering Graduate Students
2009
- INCOSE's Operations and Finances: Looking Back at 2008 and Forward to 2009
2009
- A Draft Reference Curriculum for Software Engineering Master's Programs
2009
- Cost model extensions to support systems engineering cost estimation for complex systems and systems of systems
2009
- Economics of human systems integration: The Pratt Whitney F119 engine
2009
- Enterprise Assessment Diagnostics: Lessons Learned from LAI Members
2009
- The culture of innovation styles: Are our corporate cultures tuned for innovation?
2009
- Optimizing Optimism in Systems Engineers
2009
- Practical Implementation of an Enterprise Measurement System: From Inception to Transformation
2009
- An Exploration of matching teaching to the learning preferences of systems engineering graduate students
2009
- 6.3. 1 The Human Element of Decision Making in Systems Engineers: A Focus on Optimism
2009
- Estimating systems engineering reuse
2009
- Measuring systems engineering success
2008
- Cultural Barriers to the Adoption of Systems Engineering Research
2008
- Estimating the Cost of Systems Engineering for Space Systems
2008
- 2.3. 1 Proposed Modification to COSYSMO Estimating Relationship
2008
- 7.5. 0 Global SE: The Reality and the Challenges
2008
- Report from the 2008 Workshop of INCOSE-s Systems Engineering Architecting Doctoral Student Network (SEANET)
2008
- The Constructive Systems Engineering Cost Model (COSYSMO): Quantifying the Costs of Systems Engineering Effort
2008
- 1.3. 1 Measuring Systems Engineering Success: Insights from Baseball
2008
- Zen in the Art of Cost Estimation
2008
- Systems Engineering Reuse: A Report on the State of the Practice
2008
- Measuring systems engineering success: Insights from baseball
2008
- Design and development of a virtual Emergency Operations Center for disaster management research, training, and discovery
2008
- 2.3. 2 COSYSMO Reuse Extension
2008
- Considerations for successful reuse in systems engineering
2008
- Could You Say That Again, Please?
2008
- Enterprises as systems: Context, boundaries, and practical implications
2008
- Proposed modification to COSYSMO estimating relationship
2008
- 3.4. 2 The ROI of Systems Engineering: Some Quantitative Results
2007
- Using a boundary object framework to analyze interorganizational collaboration
2007
- Systems engineering cost estimation for space systems
2007
- Lessons learned from industrial validation of COSYSMO
2007
- Myth Buster: Do Engineers Trust Parametric Models Over Their Own Intuition?
2007
- From research to reality: Making COSYSMO a trusted estimation tool in your organization
2007
- Systems Engineering Leading Indicators Guide, Version 1.0
2007
- Pioneers of parametrics
2007
- COSYSMO Reuse Extension
2007
- First Latin America and Caribbean Initiative Dinner
2007
- Boundary Objects: Improving Inter-organizational Communication
2007
- Reducing Risk and Uncertainty in COSYSMO Size and Cost Drivers: Some Techniques for Enhancing Accuracy
2007
- 9.4. 1 Lessons Learned From Industrial Validation of COSYSMO
2007
- Challenges in the development of systems engineering as a profession
2007
- A framework for evolving system of systems engineering
2007
- 1.4. 3 Challenges in the Development of Systems Engineering as a Profession
2007
- From Good To Lean: The Bottom Line Impact of Enterprise Lean Transformation
2007
- A research agenda for systems of systems architecting
2007
- From research to reality
2007
- Enabling Research Synergies through a Doctoral Research Network for System Engineering
2007
- Coupling Lean Thinking and Systems Thinking at the Enterprise Level
2006
- On the use of architectural products for cost estimation
2006
- 2.3. 2 Towards a Work Breakdown Structure for Net Centric System of Systems Engineering and Management
2006
- Impact contributions of MBASE on software engineering graduate courses
2006
- A theory of objective sizing
2006
- Achievements and challenges in software resource estimation
2006
- Role of software readability on software development cost
2006
- Wanted: A Systems View on Certification
2006
- Advancing an ontology for systems engineering to allow consistent measurement
2006
- Extensions of COSYSMO to represent reuse
2006
- Towards a work breakdown structure for net centric system of systems engineering and management
2006
- Systems Engineering Cost Estimation Across BAE Systems: Trans-Atlantic Collaboration and Identification of Future Opportunities
2006
- IIE Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA
2005
- ANSI/EIA 632 as a standardized WBS for COSYSMO
2005
- EIA/ANSI 632 as a Standardized WBS for COSYSMO
2005
- Cost Estimation
2005
- COCOMO suite methodology and evolution
2005
- On counting requirements
2005
- 7.1. 2 Sea Level Requirements as Systems Engineering Size Metrics
2005
- Cost Metrics for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
2005
- Synthesizing SoS concepts for use in cost estimation
2005
- Sea level requirements as systems engineering size metrics
2005
- Effect of Schedule Compression on Project Effort
2005
- Synthesizing systems-of-systems concepts for use in cost estimation
2005
- Systems Engineering Leading Indicators Guide-Beta Release
2005
- Systems engineering cost estimation by consensus
2004
- COSYSMO Working Group Report
2004
- Lessons Learned From Collecting Systems Engineering Data
2004
- An empirical study of eServices product UML sizing metrics
2004
- STEPS TOWARD MODEL UNIFICATION FOR SOFTWARE, SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, AND SYSTEMS OF SYSTEMS
2004
- PSM
2004
- 2.6. 2 Systems Engineering Sizing in the Age of Acquisition Reform
2004
- System Level Metrics for Software Development Estimation
2004
- An approach to technology risk management
2004
- 3.1. 1 COSYSMO: A Constructive Systems Engineering Cost Model Coming of Age
2003
- Individual players in a team sport: Stakeholder change in commitment in ISD projects
2003
- COSYSMO: a systems engineering cost Model
2003
- ISE590 Independent Research
2002