Irem Y. Tumer, Ph.D.
E-mail:
irem.tumer@oregonstate.edu
Phone: (541) 737-6627
Fax: (541) 737-2600
Office: Rogers 408
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
The details of ongoing research projects can be found in projects.
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.)
- Internal Award (OSU/MIME Internal Seed Funding Call): Understanding and Modeling Design Uncertainty in Real-World Organizations. (Awarded 2008.)
- 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.)
- NSF CMMI-0928076 (NSF Engineering Design and Innovation Program): Quantifying Creativity in Automated Design Through a Multiagent Coordination Framework. (Awarded 2009.)
- NSF CMMI-1030060 (NSF Engineering Design and Innovation Program): A Methodology for Utility-Based Decision Making in Large Design Organizations Using Empirically-Derived Risk Indicators. (Awarded 2010.)
- NASA JPL Award: Integration of Risk as a Tradeable Parameter in Team-X Using ModelCenter. (Awarded 2010.)
- NASA Award: Design-Stage Safety Consideration for Critical Systems Through ISHM and Formal Verification and Validation. (Awarded 2010.)
- DARPA/PARC Award: Formal Co-Verification of Correctness of Large Scale Cyber Physical Systems During Design. (Awarded 2010.)
- DARPA/Vanderbilt University Award: Probabilistic Requirements Verification Through Uncertainty Propagation. (Awarded 2012.)
- NASA Marshall/Univ. of Alabama Award: Reliability and Functional Failure Analysis of Complex Cyber-Physical Systems. (Awarded 2012.)
- DARPA/PARC Award: A Fault Augmented Model Extension Framework for Supporting Verification under the Presence of Faults. (Awarded 2012.)
GRADUATE STUDENTS:
- David Jensen, ME, OSU (MS, Graduated, Spring 2009)
- Jonathan Mueller, ME, OSU (MS, Graduated, Spring 2009 )
- Scott Kramer, ME, OSU (MS, Graduated, Spring 2009)
- Farzaneh Farhangmehr, ME, OSU (MS, Graduated, Spring 2009)
- Blake Giles, ME, OSU (MS, Graduated, Spring 2010)
- Mike Koch, ME, OSU (MS, Graduated, Spring 2010)
- Rudy Hooven, ME, OSU (MS, Graduated, Spring 2010)
- Masahiro Kitagawa, ME, OSU (MS, Graduated, Spring 2010)
- Sarah Oman, ME, OSU (PhD, Start date: Fall 2008)
- Douglas VanBossuyt, ME, OSU (PhD, Start date: Winter 2009)
- David Jensen, ME, OSU (PhD, Start date: Fall 2009)
- David Jensen, ME, OSU (PhD, Start date: Fall 2009)
- Kerry Poppa, ME, OSU (PhD, Start date: Fall 2010)
- Mike Koopmans, ME, OSU (MS, Start date: Fall 2009)
- Kerry Poppa, ME, OSU (PhD, Start date: Fall 2010)
- Joe Piacenza, ME, OSU (PhD, Start date: Fall 2010)
- Bryan OHalloran, ME, OSU (PhD, Start date: Fall 2010)
- Brady Gilchrist, ME, OSU (MS, Start date: Fall 2011)
- Hoda Mehrpouyan, ME, OSU (PhD, Start date: Fall 2011)
- Brandon Haley, ME, OSU (MS, Start date: Fall 2012)
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:
Undegraduate courses taught:
- Introduction to Design (see syllabus), focusing on the engineering process and methods;
- 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.
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 past 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. She is Program Chair for the ASME International Design Theory and Methodology Conference (2011) and future Conference Chair for the same conference in 2012.
Complex Engineered Systems Design (CESD) Laboratory