Welcome to SyDL

The System Design and Analytics Laboratory (SyDL) is housed in the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Arkansas.  Our vision is to help research sponsors define and achieve their strategic objectives. Our research develops innovative systems engineering, decision & risk analysis, and trade-off analytics methods to identify promising opportunities and create high value solutions with acceptable risk.  Our researchers have made significant contributions to the agile development of integrated performance, cost, and schedule modeling and quantitative Set-Based Design.