INCOSE Fellow Andy Sage

Andrew P. Sage - received the BSEE degree from the Citadel, the SMEE degree from MIT and the Ph.D. from Purdue, the latter in 1960. He received honorary Doctor of Engineering degrees from the University of Waterloo in 1987 and from Dalhousie University in 1997. He has been a faculty member at the University of Arizona, University of Florida, and Southern Methodist University. During 1974-84, he was Lawrence R. Quarles Professor of Engineering Science and Systems Engineering at the University of Virginia. During portions of this time, he was Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research, Chair of the Chemical Engineering Department, and the first Chair of their Systems Engineering Department. In 1984 he became First American Bank Professor of Information Technology and Engineering at George Mason University and the first Dean of the School of Information Technology and Engineering. In May 1996, he was elected as Founding Dean Emeritus of the School and also was appointed a University Professor.

He is an elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE). He received the Frederick Emmonds Terman Award from the American Society for Engineering Education, and an Outstanding Service Award from the International Federation of Automatic Control. He received the first Norbert Wiener Award as well as the first Joseph G. Wohl Outstanding Career Award from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. In 1994 he received the Donald G. Fink Prize from the IEEE, and a Superior Public Service Award, for his service on the CNA Corporation Board of Trustees from the US Secretary of the Navy.

He was editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics for the 27 year period 1972 through 1998, and was an Editor of the IFAC Journal Automatica for the 16 year period 1981 through 1996. He is currently editor of the John Wiley textbook series on Systems Engineering, the INCOSE Wiley journal Systems Engineering, and the journal Information, Knowledge, and Systems Management. He is also active in other scholarly editorial efforts.

He was President of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society for the two-year period 1984-1985. Centennial medals were awarded by the Case Western Reserve University in 1981, the IEEE in 1984, and the ASEE in 1993. He was elected an Honorary Professor at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1995. He received the Washington Society of Engineers Award and a Distinguished Service Award from the National Capital Area Council of the IEEE in 1996. He was Chair of Section M (engineering) of the AAAS for calendar year 1990 and has participated in a large number of other professional service efforts.

His initial research concerned optimization, estimation, system modeling and identification, and communications and control system design. His current interests include systems engineering and management efforts in a variety of application areas including systems integration and reengineering, software systems engineering, total quality management, cost and effectiveness assessment, and industrial ecology and sustainable development. He is the author or co-author of a number of papers in these areas as well as a number of texts that have resulted from his principal effort, which is teaching in systems engineering and management.

In 2000 he was awarded the prestigious IEEE Simon Ramo Medal "For outstanding contributions to the field of systems engineering."

In 2002 he received an Eta Kappa Nu eminent member award.

In 2002 he was awarded INCOSE's Pioneer Award. This is his citation. "Professor Sage has made continued and substantial contributions to the field of Systems Engineering for more than 35 years. He served on the seminal committee that created the Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society within IEEE and edited the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics for 27 years. He chaired the department of Systems Engineering at the University of Virginia and created a unique School of Information Technology and Engineering at George Mason University. He has written or edited 13 books and has been the Series Editor of a textbook series on Systems Engineering and Management for John Wiley & Sons. He played the instrumental role in establishing the INCOSE Journal of Systems Engineering as published by John Wiley & Sons and provides its editorial leadership."

He was elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 "For contributions to the theory and practice of systems engineering and systems management."

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