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Daniel Olivas, systems engineering graduate, designed a remote fire-service support system to reduce loss incurred during emergency incidents.

Intrigued by space exploration from the Mars rover missions to the Hubble Space Telescope, Anthony Vila, flight test engineer at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, designed a system to detect possible life on worlds other than Earth for his final Systems Engineering master’s program project.

Like many people, systems engineering graduate student and Boeing engineer Demi Outman often found herself tossing food that was past its expiration date. So she designed an automated system to help individuals and families keep track of what’s in their cupboards without having to update a list manually.

This is a mantra that Andrew Merkle, D.Eng, systems engineering program chair, lives by. Discover, from his expert viewpoint, where the field of systems engineering is heading and how the Engineering for Professionals program is preparing leaders in this cross-functional field.

Michaela (Mickey) Negus, Graduated August 2021, M.S. in Systems Engineering

While conducting research on the resiliency of cyber physical systems (CPSs), Brian Parsons, cyber systems engineering manager with Northrop Grumman, found himself looking for new answers to old questions for his final Systems Engineering program project.

Like most of us, Frank Kemper often finds himself stuck in traffic jams caused by accidents or other incidents on the road. So for his final Systems Engineering program project, the mechanical engineer for Naval Surface Warfare Center Philadelphia Division (NSWCPD) in the Department of Navy, Department of Defense, developed a system to decrease such accidents’ effect on  traffic flow.

While working at a small telecommunications company and traveling to remote areas, Jennifer Glock, a recent Systems Engineering (SE) graduate, noticed the lack of telecommunications infrastructures and how difficult it…

Eric Villhauer, a Systems Engineering alumni and senior engineering manager in the Flight Controls Systems department with North Carolina-based Collins Aerospace, began to use to use his engineering degree to help people living with diabetes.

Andrew Merkle, the mission area executive for Research and Exploratory Development (RED) at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), has been appointed chair of the Engineering for Professionals’ Systems Engineering Program, effective July 1.

The way Andrew Serio saw it, the recent explosion in the popularity and availability of drones for commercial and hobby use and the advances in lightweight optical and hardware materials created a perfect storm of opportunity that he wanted to take advantage of.

Systems Engineering alumni Amir Bijandi's innovative system is the first-time application of remote-guide air vehicles in piloting operations.