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

Yaman Barlas

System Dynamics Review, 2025, vol. 41, issue 2

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2025
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