Teaching and Advising in Systems Science and System Dynamics—Personal Experience, Lessons, and Reflections

BARLAS Y.

System Dynamics Review, cilt.41, sa.2, 2025 (SSCI, Scopus) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 41 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2025
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1002/sdr.70003
  • Dergi Adı: System Dynamics Review
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, ABI/INFORM, Aerospace Database, Business Source Elite, Business Source Premier, Communication Abstracts, Geobase, Index Islamicus, INSPEC, Metadex, Civil Engineering Abstracts
  • Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

I was honored to have been selected to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022. I thank the System Dynamic Society and the Award Committee for finding me worthy of this award. This paper is based on the talk that I delivered in Frankfurt in the award ceremony at ISDC 2022. I first provide a brief history of my acquaintance with system sciences and system dynamics, followed by a summary of our teaching and research activities, particularly in the past 30 years. By underlining the strong two-way interaction between teaching and research, I emphasize the significant role students played in our research activities. In applied research, I highlight our recent focus on bio-medical and health modeling. In methodological research, I focus on our structure-oriented model credibility testing efforts. Finally, I offer some lessons learned and reflections on the current state of the system dynamics field, recent developments in related fields, and implications for education, research, and practice of system dynamics.