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	Mark A. Austin, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Institute for Systems Research , University of Maryland at College Park.
Introduction
I am Technical Director of the Master of Science in Systems Engineering (MSSE) Program . Contact Information Résumé Personal Web Corner
Teaching
SPRING SEMESTER, 2013 ENCE 688R Civil Information Systems (T 5.00-6.15 pm) ENSE 622 Systems Engineering Requirements, Design, and Trade-Off Analysis (M 7-9.40 pm). PREVIOUS SEMESTERS ENCE 201 Engineering Information Processing II ENCE 353 Introduction to Structural Analysis ENES 489P Hands-On Systems Engineering Projects ENSE 621 Systems Engineering Modeling and Analysis ENSE 623 Systems Engineering Design Projects, Validation and Verification .
Research
GENERAL RESEARCH INTERESTS Model-Based Systems Engineering and Integration 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 Parastoo Delgoshaei. Computational Modeling for Energy-Efficient Buildings Leonard Petnga (co-advised with John Baras). Model-Based Systems Integration for Cyber-Physical Systems Matt Mosteller (co-advised with Reza Ghodssi). Design Platforms for Engineering Experimental Biomedical Systems Chris Huber. Systems Engineering Urban Environments for Resilience Eddie Tseng. Formal Modeling and Analysis of Building Architectures Scott Selberg. Backbone Infrastructures for System-of-Systems Modeling of Instrument Networks Click here for a list of recent graduates.
Publications & Presentations
RECENT PUBLICATIONS Petnga L. and Austin M.A., Ontologies of Time and Time-based Reasoning for MBSE of Cyber-Physical Systems ( pdf ), 11th Annual Conference on Systems Engineering Research (CSER 2013), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, March 19-22, 2013. Best Conference Paper Award. Nassar N. and Austin M.A., Model-Based Systems Engineering Design and Trade-Off Analysis with RDF Graphs ( pdf ), 11th Annual Conference on Systems Engineering Research (CSER 2013), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, March 19-22, 2013. Mosteller M., Austin M.A., Yang S., and Ghodssi R., Platforms for Engineering Experimental Biomedical Systems ( pdf ), INSIGHT Magazine, Vol. 15, Issue 4, December 2012, pp. 9-16. Delgoshaei P. and Austin M.A., Software Patterns for Traceability of Requirements to Finite-State Machine Behavior: Application to Rail Transit Systems Design and Management, 14th Annual International Symposium of The International Council on Systems Engineering, Rome, Italy, July 9-12, 2012. Mosteller M., Austin M.A., Yang S., and Ghodssi R., Platforms for Engineering Experimental Biomedical Systems, 14th Annual International Symposium of The International Council on Systems Engineering, Rome, Italy, July 9-12, 2012. Best Paper Award. Click here for older publications. RECENT PRESENTATIONS Delgoshaei P., and Austin M.A., Software Design Patterns for Ontology-Enabled Traceability ( pdf ), Presented at CSER 2011 (Conference on Systems Engineering Research), Redondo Beach, CA, April 15, 2011. Austin M.A., Tabatabaee V. and Baras J., Systems Engineering Challenges for Design and Real-Time Management of Component-Enabled Wireless Ad-hoc Networks ( pdf ), Presented at CSER 2010 (Conference on Systems Engineering Research), Hoboken, New Jersey, March 17, 2010. Selberg S. and Austin M., Toward An Evolutionary SoS Architecture ( pdf ), Presented to the INCOSE 2008 Symposium, Utrecht, The Netherlands, June 19, 2008. Click here for older presentations. Last Modified: December 26, 2012.