Faculty Research:

In addition to project supervision, Systems Engineering faculty involve themselves in research projects that span the range of the Department’s research focus.  Titles of typical research projects and the faculty involved are listed below.  More details can be found by following links to faculty web pages (where available).

Dr. Rachel Goshorn

• Net-centric enterprise systems/services
• Detection, identification, prediction and prevention of both instantaneous improvised explosive device (IED) activities and longer term IED activities
• Intelligent sensors and network systems applied to the global war on terror and homeland security

Dr. Robert Harney

• Unconventional Weapons of Mass Destruction
• An Integrated Approach to Combat Systems
• Military Applications of Lidar
• System-Level Defeat of Improvised Explosive Device Threats

Dr. Tom Huynh

• System-of-Systems Engineering Methodology
• Complexity Theory and Complex Systems
• Complex Systems Engineering
• Net-Centric Operations
• System Model Sufficiency

Dr. Ed Kujawski

• Non-expected Utility Models for Improved Decision-Making in a Multi-State World
• Risk-Benefit Analysis

Dr. David Olwell

• Reliability Analysis & Reliability Engineering
• Statistical Process Control
• Army Accessions

Dr. Gene Paulo

• Systems Engineering Applied to Unmanned Systems
• Combat Modeling

Dr. Paul Shebalin

• System Requirements Modeling
• Enterprise Systems Engineering
• Complex Systems Theory
• Embedded Computer System Design & Development

Dr. Ravi Vaidyanathan

• Biologically-Inspired Unmanned Vehicle Control Systems
• Hands-free Human-Machine Interfaces for Remote Vehicle Control

Dr. Cliff Whitcomb

• Sea-Basing Systems Concepts
• Ship System Design for Six Sigma

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