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System Performance Laboratory

The Center of Next For... Human-Technology Interactions in Systems Design

Welcome to the System Performance Lab (SPL) 

The mission of the lab is to support ISE academic programs and project sponsors with ongoing research and professional services that advance understanding and knowledge of System Performance and contribute to the enabling technology available for design, test, operation, and management of high-performance complex systems. The goal is to provide a quality of service to sponsors, students, and faculty that result in the contribution of knowledge formation, technology advancement, and economic development throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia, and beyond.

Research activities in the SPL include:

  • Enterprise Performance Measurement (Metrics and Improvement)
  • Data Envelopment Analysis
  • Fuzzy Sets and Logic
  • System Dynamics Modeling
  • Design of Quality Management Systems
  • Engineering Administration
  • Systems Engineering Management and Systems Science
  • Influential Observation Identification
  • Process Definition, Performance Analysis and Re-engineering
  • Infrastructure Systems (Resilience and Sustainability)
  • Evaluation and Assessment of R&D Enterprises

Dr. Konstantinos P. Triantis
Director of SPL

John Lawrence Professor
Industrial & Systems Engineering
triantis@vt.edu