A. Wayne Wymore was an American mathematician

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 and systems engineer. He gained both his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the Iowa State University

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, and his PhD in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Wymore was founder and first Chairman of Systems and Industrial Engineering (SIE) Department at the University of Arizona

University of Arizona

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. He was also one of the first Fellows of the International Council on Systems Engineering

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 (INCOSE).

In 2003 he received an INCOSE's Pioneer Award, whereby they wrote:

• A. Wayne Wymore founded the first academic department of Systems Engineering in the world at the University of Arizona in 1960. He pioneered Mathematical-based Systems Engineering and later led Model-based Systems Engineering. He was an early and ardent supporter of the fomenting of INCOSE. He has led self-evaluation of Systems Engineering education, and continues to be one of the most prominent theoreticians of the Systems Engineering community. In addition to his teaching, writing, and consulting, he has participated in pro bono projects to bring a Systems Engineering approach to social service organizations.

Selected publications

• Systems Engineering Methodology for Interdisciplinary Teams, Wiley, New York, 1976.
• A Mathematical Theory of Systems Engineering: The Elements, Krieger, Huntington, NY, 1967.
• Engineering Modeling and Design, (with Bill Chapman and A. Terry Bahill), CRC Press Inc., 1992.
• Model-Based Systems Engineering, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1993.
• Subsystem Optimization Implies System Suboptimization: Not!, World Wide Web, www.sie.arizona, 1997.
• A System Theoretical Fable, World Wide Web, www.sie.arizona, 1998.
• A Policy-Driven Method for IT Infrastructure Selection in Power Distribution Automation System, International Review of Electrical Engineering, Vol.5, No. 2, pp. 671–682, 2010.

External links

• A Wayne Wymore's page from the SIE Department, University of Arizona.
• Webpage by A. Terry Bahill about Wymore.
• A Wayne Wymore's Autobiography
• Review from George Klir
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   on his book Model-Based Systems Engineering.