Drs. Gralla & Szajnfarber awarded three-year $239K NSF grant

Dr. Erica Gralla and Dr. Zoe Szajnfarber have been awarded a three-year, $239,214 National Science Foundation grant for their project, “Hidden costs of decomposition: the need for ‘fit’ between technical and organizational architectures.”  Their project involves studying concurrent design teams at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to understand how the “fit” between the technical system architecture of a spacecraft and the organizational structure of the design team impacts the success of the design process.  Prof. Gralla is the PI on the project, and Prof. Szajnfarber is the co-PI.