Dr. Steven M. Corns is an Associate Professor of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Iowa State University in 2008. Dr. Corns has been the university research lead for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Virtual Forward Operating Base project, contributing to the development of the model-based solution approaches and the introduction of heuristic solvers. He is also currently leading the biomedical challenge team and serves as a member of the INCOSE Model-Based Systems Engineering leadership team. In this capacity, he has worked with a team of INCOSE professionals in the development of a general framework for the design, approval, and fielding of medical devices in an effort to streamline the time to market these products. Dr. Corns research interest includes evolutionary computation applications, the mechanics of information transfer in evolutionary algorithms, and model-based approaches for complex systems design and analysis.