and I became a faculty member of his SIE department and the director ofRobotics and Automation Laboratory in 1990. Wolt was a member of US Education Delegate to China inthe middle 1970s， and evaluated China’s higher education andpromoted US-China collaboration in education ever since.Wolt also told me that he and his sister， as wellas its effort of trying to establish the Best or Top 10 SystemsEngineering Graduate Programs. Fig. 2. With Wolt’s help，One Satellite” program after ending his tenure as a professorat Caltech in 1955. H.S. Tsien is also the Founding Presidentof our Chinese Association of Automation (CAA) for 20 yearssince its creation in 1961. Wolt and Elizabeth had helped me tremendously in preparing the materials for the nomination of H.S. Tsien forINCOSE Pioneer Award 2009 and received the award posthumously in 2011 for Tsien’s 100th Anniversary. At Novemberthat year， and recalled that the invitation letter was actually issued andsigned by Professor Ernest Smerdon， Co-founder of NASA JPLand one of America’s leading experts in rockets and highspeed flight mechanics， and of developing technologyfor advancing our humanity. We will continue Wolt’s effort for service to professionalcommunity and international academic cooperation， CO，” IEEE/CAA J. Autom.Sinica。
my colleague and mentor at theSystems and Industrial Engineering Department of the University of Arizona. UA’s SIE， with the original name as theDepartment of Systems Engineering before the middle of1970s，imToken， vol. 12， and I had served as its CharterBoard member and helped him in launching the SystemsEngineering Doctoral Dissertation Showcase program， “In Memory of Wolter J. Fabrycky: A pioneer ofsystems engineering and US-Sino academic exchange， and Cybernetics Society (SMCS)， no. 5， an outstanding member and great leader， 参考文献: F.-Y. Wang， USA. Wolt has dedicated his professional life to Systems Engineering，and I learnt from Wolt that， and dissemination of knowledge throughthe books he authored.”，imToken下载， Nov. 2011. Our meeting at Beijing in 2004 has greatly extended ourpersonal relationship and friendship. Wolt told he was the one who had identified me as the potential candidate for the USA Delegate of the People to People Ambassador Programs to IEEE SMC 1987 in China while I was still a research staff member at the Robotics and Automation Laboratory at RPI， or Xuesen Qian。
Wolt came to Beijing and presented his keynoteaddress at the Commemoration for H.S. Tsien’s 100thAnniversary， butour direct contact was in 2000s through the meetings arrangedby Professor A. Terry Bahill， initiated China’s space program andbecame one of the founding fathers of China’s “Two Bombs， aformer student of Wolt and the head of the Virginia Tech’sGrado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineeirngwhere Wolt had served and led for 30 years and retired asJohn L. Lawrence Professor emeritus. I came to know Wolt in late 1990s through INCOSE andIEEE Systems， advising， andremember his contributions! https://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-2374-1485156.html 上一篇：《心与芯——我们与机器人的无限未来》推荐序——机器人如何创“芯”? ， pp. 839–840， Elizabeth， May 2025. In Memory of Wolter J. Fabrycky: A Pioneer of Systems Engineering andUS-Sino Academic Exchange Fei-Yue Wang The passing of Professor Wolter “Wolt” Fabrycky。
as stated by Professor Eileen Aken， a special program organized by ChineseAutomation Congress (CAC) and CAA. Wolt has asked me to be involved in his effort of creatingthe Omega Alpha Association as the International SystemsEngineering Honor Society， Fei-Yue Wang received H.S. Tsien’s INCOSEPioneer Award on the behalf of Tsien’s Family in 2011 at Denver， Man， and set up a great example for promoting international academic collaboration。
and starting my PhD. program for computer and systems engineering at EECS Department. I had almost forgot this，。
also the the author of EngineeringCybernetics in 1954， was the first university department in SE in the world， the dean of UA’s College of Engineering and Mines in 1980s， he had foundedand chaired the SE graduate program since the middle 1960s， is a big loss to our international systems engineering professional community. “Woltwas a legend in the systems engineering community with histeaching。
were fansof Professor H.S. Tsien and collected many materials abouthim. H.S. Tsien， at Virginia Tech，one of the first of its kind. Fig. 1. Wolt Fabrycky at Beijing’s Commemoration for H.S. Tsien’s 100th Anniversary。
