Kevin John Forsberg (born 1934) is an American engineer, business consultant, and with Harold Mooz co-founder and executive director of The Center for Systems Management,[1] who was awarded the INCOSE Pioneer Award in 2001.
[2] Forsberg received his BS in Civil Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1956, and proceeded to study at Stanford University, where he received his MA and in 1961 his PhD in Engineering Mechanics[1] for the thesis "Concentrated load on a shallow elliptic paraboloid."
He was awarded in 1981 the NASA Public Service Medal for "his outstanding technical and managerial contributions to the Space Shuttle Program."
With Harold Mooz he is awarded both the Agency Seal Medal and in 2001 the INCOSE Pioneer Award acknowledging "Working as a team with Kevin Forsberg, he has pioneered and tirelessly promoted the concept of the integration of system engineering and project management into a single seamless process.
"[2] Forsberg has authored and co-authored several books on systems engineering and project management.