Academic Focus Areas
- System Integration
- Modeling and analysis
- Probability and statistics
- System theory
- Decision analysis
- Simulation
Research Areas
Industrial and Manufacturing Operations – engineering management, cost estimation and optimization, computer integrated manufacturing, supply chain management human factors engineering and mining logistics
Computer technology and data systems – Automation, embedded computer systems and software, data management and filtering
Biomedical Systems – healthcare delivery networks cell regulatory networks, computational and systems biology
Infrastructures and Energy – solar power systems, water/energy/agriculture/transportation infrastructures, communications networking, energy network distribution
Security – emergency preparedness traffic control and evacuation, crowd control, border security
UA systems engineering researchers are handling ground systems engineering for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, set to launch in 2016. The researchers are studying an asteroid that will be scooped up and returned to them for analysis – providing students with outstanding and ongoing research opportunities for years to come.