Farrokh’s passion is to have fun in providing an opportunity for highly motivated and talented people to learn how to define and achieve their dreams. Since his arrival in August 2009 at the University of Oklahoma, after seventeen years at Georgia Tech, Farrokh holds the L. A. Comp Chair in the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. Farrokh received his B. Tech (Hons) degree in Naval Architecture in 1967 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and his Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974. He has co-authored two textbooks, four monographs, and more than 450 technical papers dealing with the co-design of materials, products, and associated manufacturing processes, the design of mechanical, thermal, and structural systems; ships and aircraft; engineered networks. He has co-mentored 34 doctoral students and 65 master’s students; 18 of his mentees are pursuing highly successful careers in academia. In addition, he has mentored two students, one master’s and one doctoral, who founded several for-profit colleges in Odisha, India. Farrokh is a Fellow of ASME, an Associate Fellow of AIAA, a Life Member of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, and a Member of ASEE, RINA, and SNAME. He was named the ASME Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Engineering Design Educator in 2011. In September 2012 he was recognized as a Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. In December 2012, he received the Life Time Achievement Award from the International Society for Agile Manufacturing, Lafayette, Louisiana. Farrokh co-directs the Systems Realization Laboratory @ OU with his wife Professor Janet K. Allen who holds the John and Mary Moore Chair in Industrial and Systems Engineering. They hypothesize that • ALL grand challenges can be modeled as Cyber-Physical-Social (CPS) systems. • Public policy is foundational for addressing any grand challenge. Hence, their interest in evolving CPS to support policymaking. They seek to model evolving CPS systems as multi-echelon networks of services thereby ensuring the computational platform to be used to design and manage an evolving CPS is agnostic to domains of application. Their quest for answers to the key challenges associated with evolving CPS systems are anchored in the following research thrusts: Platformization: Knowledge-Based Platform for Decision Support in the Design of Engineered Systems • Predictive Analytics: Simulation of Future Outcomes using Limited Data • Knowledge-Based Management of Computational Complexity and Risk • Knowledge-Based Exploration of the Solution Space Disruptive Innovation in the Cyber-Physical-Social Space • Rural Development Policy: Evolving Food-Energy-Water Nexus for Sustainable Development • Healthcare Policy: Evolving Fail-Safe Healthcare Networks • Energy Policy: Dynamic Management of Connected Communities to Maximize Comfort and Minimize Cost • Education: Contextual Assessment of Student Learning through Reflection on Doing The Allen-Mistree education focus is on creating and implementing courses aimed at educating strategic engineers—those who have developed the competencies to create value in digitally transforming enterprises through the realization of complex engineered systems. Email <farrokh.mistree@ou.edu> URL http://www.ou.edu/content/coe/ame/people/amefaculty/mistree.html LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/pub/farrokh-mistree/9/838/8ba