Rate My Professor Alejandro Salado

Alejandro Salado is an associate professor of systems engineering in the Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering at The University of Arizona, where he serves as Director of Systems Engineering and is a member of the Graduate Faculty. He earned a PhD in systems engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, an MEng in space systems engineering from the Technical University of Delft, MS degrees in electronics engineering and project management from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, and BS and MS degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Prior to his academic career, Salado spent over 10 years in the space industry, holding positions as systems engineer, chief architect, and chief systems engineer on manned and unmanned space systems with development costs up to $1B at organizations including Airbus Defense and Space, OHB System AG, NTE-SENER S.A., Delta-Utec SRC, and the European Space Agency. His academic appointments include assistant professor in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech from 2015 to 2021 and professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway from 2013 to 2015.

Salado conducts research in problem formulation, design of verification and validation strategies, model-based systems engineering, and engineering education, with a focus on the theory of systems engineering, formalization of practices, and methods improving problem formulation, verification and validation, and system architecture. He has published over 100 technical papers, including 'An experimentation framework for validating architectural properties as proxies for the ilities' (Systems Engineering, 2022), 'A Mathematical Approach to Design Verification Strategies that Incorporate Corrective Activities as Dedicated Decisions' (IEEE Open Journal of Systems Engineering, 2022), 'Towards Developing Metrics to Evaluate Digital Engineering' (Systems Engineering, 2022), 'Modeling correction activities in the context of verification strategies' (Systems Engineering, 2021), and 'Coordination of verification activities with incentives: a two-firm model' (Research in Engineering Design, 2021). His research has received funding from the National Science Foundation, Naval Surface Warfare Command, Naval Air System Command, and Office of Naval Research. Salado is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2019), International Fulbright Science and Technology Award (2010), Omega Alpha Association’s Exemplary Dissertation Award (2017), multiple best paper awards from INCOSE and ASEE, and Reviewer of the Year for INCOSE Systems Engineering Journal (2020). He is a member of INCOSE and senior member of IEEE and AIAA.