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, 2010 ENSE 622: Systems Engineering Requirements, Design, and Trade-Off Analysis PREVIOUS SEMESTERS ENCE 201: Engineering Information Processing II (M,W,F, 2-2.50 pm). ENCE 200: Engineering Information Processing I (M,W,F, 9-9.50 am). ENCE 489C: Engineering Software Development ENSE 621: Systems Engineering Modeling and Analysis . ENSE 623: Systems Engineering Validation and Verification (Tu, 7-9.40 pm).

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. 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., Systems Modeling and Traceability Applications of the Higraph Formalism , Systems Engineering: The Journal of the International Council on Systems Engineering, Published Online, August 5, 2008. Austin M.A. and Raley C., Design Platform Methodology for Augmented Cognition, Chapter 8 of Augmented Cognition: A Practitioner's Guide , pp. 196-221, Edited by Dylan D. Schmorrow and Kay M. Stanney, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, P.O. Box 1369, Santa Monica, CA 90406-1369, September 2008, p. 280. Sebastianelli R. and Austin M.A., Symbolic Analysis of Sub-Optimal Bang-Bang Control Mechanisms in Base Isolated Structures, Journal of Shock and Vibration, , March 2008. (In Press). Selberg S. and Austin M.A., Toward an Evolutionary System of Systems Architecture, Eighteenth Annual International Symposium of The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), Utrecht, The Netherlands, June 15-19, 2008 ( pdf ). Johnson J. and Austin M.A., A Process Modeling Framework for Formal Validation of Panama Canal System Operations, Eighteenth Annual International Symposium of The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), Utrecht, The Netherlands, June 15-19, 2008 ( pdf ). Selberg S. and Austin M.A., Backbone Infrastructures for Sustainable System-of-Systems Management, Sixth Annual Conference on Systems Engineering Research , Los Angeles, April 4-6, 2008. Click here for older publications. RECENT PRESENTATIONS Austin M. and Johnson J., "A Process Modeling Framework for Formal Validation of Panama Canal System Operations" ( pdf , 4,466 KB), Presented to the INCOSE 2008 Symposium, Utrecht, The Netherlands, June 19, 2008. Selberg S. and Austin M., "Toward An Evolutionary SoS Architecture" ( pdf , 1,603 KB), Presented to the INCOSE 2008 Symposium, Utrecht, The Netherlands, June 19, 2008. Click here for older presentations.