PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2015
It’s in the system.
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A pioneer of systems engineering in Israel, Bernard Marshall Gordon became an honorable member of the Israeli Society for Systems Engineers, in March 2011. The honor was conferred at the opening Session of the Bi-Annual conference on systems engineering “Look before you leap.” The certificate was conferred in the company of of hundreds of engineers and Gordon’s long-term friend former Technion President Amos Horev. Gordon was made an honorary doctor of science by Technion in 2005. You can read more about him on Wikipedia.
With vision and a passion for the trade, Bernard Gordon established The Gordon Center for Systems Engineering at Technion in 2002. The internationally acclaimed center is Israel’s first stop for research and engineering into systems research.
You might not naturally think that engineers could multi-task, but the ability to hold many parameters in mind at once in order to produce an effective, targeted system is the main key to success. Excellence in engineering will always involve systems. Systems engineering focuses on defining customer needs and required functionality early in the development cycle, documenting requirements, then proceeding with design synthesis and system validation while all the time holding the template of the complete problem.
The Gordon Center’s mission is to advance the practice, methods and theories of systems engineering applied to complex systems through collaborative research, training, post-graduate education and knowledge sharing.
Established in 2002 within the Technion, the center’s acclaimed post-graduate program (Master of Engineering in Systems Engineering) is the leading academic organization in systems engineering training, education, and knowledge sharing in Israel.
The Gordon Center is affiliated with the faculties of Aerospace Engineering; Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering and Management, although collaborations are active across Technion City.
Bernard Marshall Gordon, (known as Bernie), was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1927.At an early age he developed an interest in electronics. Upon graduation from Springfield’s TechnicalHigh School, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and later became a commissioned officer. He earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology via the U.S. Navy’s V-12 program and the GI Bill. In 2002, Bernard and his wife Sophia turned their attention to engineering in Israel, and began supporting the new center at the Technion.
