Dr. Haifeng Zhu

This talk will be in two parts.  The first part will give a high-level overview of electrical subsystem design work in Boeing Commercial Airplanes.  The second part will be a technical talk on tackling complex system design with advanced systems technologies.  Aerospace products are the most complex human-made systems.  Many of them are safety-critical, which poses significant challenges to design and certification.  This talk will discuss some of these challenges and trends in addressing them, especially developing appropriate architectural design techniques in tackling constant changes and increasing complexities.

Biography:

Dr. Haifeng Zhu is currently with Boeing.  He has extensive experience in multiple sectors in the manufacturing industry and has led or contributed to many projects.  Haifeng is interested in advancing system knowledge and technologies for humanity.  It is important to promote awareness of technologies' different effects and use technologies wisely to help human lives and society. He is also an advocator of engineer education, including promoting the awareness of the importance of education and course training to entry-level engineers and the correlations between quality education and the quality outcomes from work.  He is also a warm-hearted volunteer for certain charity events and organizations, sometimes helping those using technologies. He devoted some of his time in helping cross-organizational public domain knowledge sharing and stimulating possible collaborations to better serve the local community.