Mark A. Austin, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Institute for Systems Research , University of Maryland at College Park.
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SPRING SEMESTER, 2008 ENCE 200: Engineering Information Processing I (M,W,F, 9-9.50 am). ENCE 201: Engineering Information Processing II (M,W,F, 2-2.50 pm). PREVIOUS SEMESTERS ENCE 489C: Engineering Software Development ENSE 621: Systems Engineering Modeling and Analysis . ENSE 622: Systems Engineering Requirements, Design, and Trade-Off Analysis ENSE 623: Systems Engineering Validation and Verification

GENERAL RESEARCH INTERESTS Systems Engineering and Integration How do we build systems engineering tools that can take advantage of Semantic Web technologies? Human-Computer Interfaces for System-Level Engineering Design Formal Models for Validation/Verification of Networked Engineering Systems. Computer-Aided Design of Bridge and Building Systems. Structural Engineering and Dynamics. RECENT RESEARCH PROJECTS PaladinRM Software for Visualization and Management of System Requirements ( pdf ). Also see PaladinRM Tutorial ( pdf ), June 2005. Aladdin : A Computational Toolkit for Engineering Matrix and Finite Element Analysis. Java-Enabled Diagram Technology . We worked on this project during the 2001-2003 timeframe, then it died, and now it's coming back to life again. GRADUATE STUDENTS AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATES Scott Selberg. Backbone Infrastructures for System-of-Systems Modeling of Instrument Networks Nick Oben. Systems Engineering, Visualization, Ontologies. John Johnson. Behavior Modeling of Engineering Systems with LTSA. Clara Popescu. Models for Integration of Business Processes and IT Services. Natasha Shmunis . Java Tools Development for AIXM 5 Visualization Ji Zhai. Ph.D. research is in Large-Deformation Fluid-Structure Interaction. Click here for a list of recent graduates.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS Fogarty K., and Austin M.A., "System Modeling and Traceability Applications of the Higraph Formalism" ( pdf , 318 KB), ISR Technical Report 2007-21, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, September 2007, 48 p. Mayank V., Kositsyna N., and Austin M.A., "Requirements Engineering and the Semantic Web: Part II. Representation, Management and Validation of Requirements and System-Level Architectures" ( pdf , 1,598 KB), ISR Technical Report 2004-14, University of Maryland, College Park, MD., March 2004, (p. 72). Selberg S.A. and Austin M.A., "Requirements Engineering and the Semantic Web" ( pdf , 15,332 KB), ISR Technical Report 2003-20, University of Maryland, College Park, MD., May 2003, (p. 62). Austin M.A. and Chancogne D., Introduction to Engineering Programming : in C, MATLAB, and JAVA , John Wiley and Sons, New York, December 1998, (p. 656). RECENT PRESENTATIONS Shmunis N. (with help from Austin M. and Davis B.), "Benefits of Open Access Approaches to Geospatial Visualization" ( pdf , 6,656 KB), Seminar on Geospatial Best Practices, Department of Transportation/Federal Aviation Administration, Washington DC, April 11, 2007. Austin M.A. (with Shmunis N.), "Visualization of Aeronautical Information for the Masses" ( pdf , 716 KB), 2007 AIXM User Conference, Sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration, Crystal City, VA, February 27, 2007. Shmunis N. (with Austin M.A.), "AIXM Viewer Implementation" ( pdf , 68 KB), 2007 AIXM User Conference, Sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration, Crystal City, VA, March 1, 2007. Austin M.A., System Engineering Challenges for Multi-Disciplinary Work Environments , Presentation to Engineering Faculty at Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile, August 17, 2005. Austin M.A., "Toward Platform Architectures for Modular Cognitive Cockpits" ( pdf , 144KB), Presented at 1st International Conference on Augmented Cognition, Las Vegas, July 26, 2005. Austin M.A., Requirements Engineering and the Semantic Web , Systems Colloquium Presentation, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley, April 10, 2003.