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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.

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Courses
  • STSM
    Special Topics in Sports Management

  • CE
    Cost Estimation

  • SA
    Sports Analytics

  • ISIEMPS
    Introduction to SIE Methods: Probability and Statistics

  • TSEP
    The Systems Engineering Process

  • MBSE
    Model-Based Systems Engineering

  • ISIEMSP
    Introduction to SIE Methods: Stochastic Processes

  • MBSE
    Model Based Systems Engineering

  • ISIEMLP
    Introduction to SIE Methods: Linear Programming

Grants
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    Fixed Price Project Services Agreement for Student Organization Sponsorship

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2022

    $1.0K
    Active
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    Engineering Student Organization Support - Project Agreement

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2021

    $15.0K
    Active
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    Service Agreement for ENGR Student Organizational Support

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2021

    $1.5K
    Active
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    STEM, Growth Mindset, and Sports: Investigating STEM Program Design Features that Impact Youth Engagement

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2020

    $1.9M
    Active
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    Systems Engineering and Program Management Cost Support

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2020

    $40.0K
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    Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories A3C IRAD Program

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2020

    $20.0K
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    Systems Engineering and Program Management Cost Support

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2020

    $4.0K
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    Cost Estimating & Analysis Support

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2019

    $45.0K
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    A Distributed Intelligence Framework for Cyber and Electromagnetic Technologies to Support Expeditionary Cyber as a Socio-technical Challenge

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2018

    $148.0K
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    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

      • Navigating the Metrics Landscape: An Introductory Literature Guide to Metric Selection, Implementation, Decision Making

        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

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