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The paper of Skoltech PhD student is one of the Top 10 at the SECESA 2016 conference of the European Space Agency

The paper of Skoltech Space Center PhD student Dominik Knoll and his supervisor Professor Alessandro Golkar has been chosen as one of the Top 10 papers at the Systems Engineering and Concurrent Engineering for Space Applications (SECESA) 2016 conference of the European Space Agency and has been selected to be submitted to the Special Issue of the SAGE Concurrent Engineering Journal.

Dominik Knoll and Alessandro Golkar presented a method and a tool for conducting concurrent design studies in an efficient way. Concurrent design has become a widely adopted engineering methodology. Space agencies and companies apply concurrent design to evaluate mission concepts in an effective manner. This work was ranked among the Top 10 of all research projects presented on the conference.

Dominik Knoll: “My work is focused on the methodology of concurrent design. This methodology is a very effective way to elaborate the design system of complex systems. For example when you build a spacecraft you first do feasibility studies, before you decide to spend billions of dollars, to make sure that it is a feasible concept. Concurrent engineering helps to get all disciplines together and discuss in a clever way is it feasible or not. In my work I am describing a certain way how to organize this work more in detail. No one studied it in such detail so far. And I also presented a software developed by me for facilitating concurrent design. Now we use it only internally, but it has a potential to become a commercial product.”

SECESA conference was organized for the first time in 2008. The Conference is designed to foster exchange of ideas, experiences, lessons learned and future trends in the area of Systems and Concurrent Engineering (SE&CE), for agencies, companies, universities and institutes involved in space and related activities. It is held on a biannual basis, organized by the European Space Agency and hosted in different European Universities. This year it took place at the Polytechnic University of Madrid on 5-7 October 2016.

Now the results of the study are being prepared for publishing in SAGE Concurrent Engineering Journal.

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