Irem Y. Tumer, Ph.D.

Complex Engineered Systems Design (CESD) Laboratory
School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering
Oregon State University
204 Rogers Hall
Corvallis, OR 97331-6001

E-mail: irem.tumer@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-6627
Fax: (541) 737-2600
Office: Rogers 408

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RESEARCH:

The mission of the Complex Engineered Systems Design Laboratory is to develop mathematical frameworks to understand, analyze, model, and design complex and integrated engineered systems that include hardware and software. A common theme in the ongoing CESD Lab research is the concept of failures and the system-level risks and uncertainty associated with failures, a desire to enable the designers of such complex hardware-software systems to meet the stringent robustness, reliability, and safety requirements by developing processes and tools for Systems Engineering, Model-Based Design, and Risk-Informed Design.

Ongoing research interests include (see projects):

• Risk and Failure informed design for software-hardware systems
• System-level analysis of complex engineered systems
• Design of Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) Systems
• Systems requirements development for software-hardware system design and reuse
• Uncertainty analysis and modeling in large organizations
• Function based design and modeling

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FUNDING:

Current funding for Dr. Tumer's research group includes (see projects for details) :

• NSF Award CCF-0741584 (NSF Science Of Design Program): A theory of design decisions. (Awarded 2007.)
• NSF Award CBET-0742677 (NSF Engineering Virtual Environments Program): VOICED--A virtual organization for innovative conceptual engineering design. (Awarded 2007.)
• AFOSR Award FA9550-08-1-0158 (BAA 2007/Mathematics, Information, and Life Sciences/Software and Systems Program): A Framework for Designing Reliable Software Intensive Systems. (Awarded 2008.)
• Internal Award (OSU/MIME Internal Seed Funding Call): Understanding and Modeling Design Uncertainty in Real-World Organizations. (Awarded 2008.)

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GRADUATE STUDENTS:

• Farzaneh Farhangmehr, ME, OSU (PhD, Start date: Fall 2007)
• Jonathan Mueller, ME, OSU (MS, Start date: Fall 2007)
• Scott Kramer, ME, OSU (MS, Start date: Fall 2007)
• Blake Giles, ME, OSU (MS, Start date: Winter 2008)
• David Jensen, ME, OSU (MS, Start date: Spring 2008)

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COURSES:

To create an internationally recognized graduate program in complex engineered systems, Dr. Tumer has created two graduate-level courses that address the fundamentals of designing complex, reliable, and safe engineered systems:

• Complex System Design (see syllabus) focusing on Systems Engineering and Model Based design;
• Risk Based Design (see syllabus) focusing on risk and reliability analysis during system design.

Undegraduate courses taught:

• Mechanical Component Design (see syllabus), focusing on the fundamentals of engineering failure analysis;
• Intermediate Dynamics (see syllabus), focusing on planar and 3D rigid body motion.

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SHORT BIO:

Dr. Irem Tumer joined the Design/Mechanics group in 2006 as Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Oregon State University. Her research focuses on the overall problem of designing highly complex and integrated systems with reduced risk of failures, developing formal methodologies and mathematical frameworks to help understand and enhance complex system design. Her expertise touches on systems engineering, model-based design, risk-based design, system analysis and optimization, function-based design, integrated systems health management, vibration monitoring, which has resulted in numerous journal and refereed conference publications (see Publications.) Prior to accepting a faculty position at OSU, Dr. Tumer led the Complex Systems Design and Engineering group in the Intelligent Systems Division at NASA Ames Research Center, where she worked from 1998 through 2006 as Research Scientist and Group Lead, and was involved in Project/Program management in various NASA Programs including Intelligent Systems, Engineering for Complex Systems, Aviation Safety, and the Constellation Programs. She received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 1998. She is currently Technical Program Chair of IEEE Reliability Society's First Annual Prognostics and Health Management Conference (2008), and Symposium Chair for Integrated Systems Engineering at the ASME Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (2008). She is past Technical Program Chair (2001) and Conference Chair (2002) for ASME's Design for Manufacturing and the Lifecycle Conference.