Professor of System Dynamics

KBR•Beavercreek Township, OH

10d•Hybrid

About The Position

KBR's National Security Solutions team is seeking a Professor of System Dynamics to join their team at Beavercreek, OH, to support the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) graduate education program. This role involves developing and delivering curriculum, guiding research, and assisting the government in acquiring new solutions within Systems Dynamics domains. The work will have a significant impact on national security by contributing to the design and optimization of defense systems.

Requirements

Detailed-oriented with excellent technical, verbal, and written communication skills.
Experience developing curriculum, course management, Canvas learning management system.
Earned doctoral degree in Systems Dynamics, Systems Engineering, or related fields.
Experience in teaching Systems Dynamics and guiding research in a military graduate education environment.
At least ten (10) years’ related work experience is required.

Responsibilities

Develop, upgrade, and refresh course materials for System Dynamics graduate education.
Develop assignments and testing instruments to teach and assess student knowledge in these domain areas.
Provide feedback to students on their learning and assessments.
Guide research in System Dynamics domains.
Assist the government in acquiring new solutions in the Systems Dynamics domains by writing technical requirements, user stories, interoperability exchanges, acquisition plans and schedules, test plans, and test data needed to fully realize intelligence modernization.
Guide students, perform analysis and experimental work through STELLA modeling to understand and analyze complex, dynamic systems in development and acquisition.
Define the architecture, workflow, feedback loops, causal relationships within a system to understand systems’ behaviors over time.
Investigate existing deployed systems for potential upgrades or more intensive system dynamics review.
Conduct mission, task, and function analyses of military systems at a level of detail suitable for alternative design decisions.
Provide user engagement strategies, collated results from user engagements, and requirements derived from user experiences.
Conduct system analysis using system dynamics models, fault trees, event trees, root-cause analyses, and other appropriate system analysis tools.