Associate Professor, ISEEM
Dr. Bryan Mesmer joined UAH's ISEEM Department in 2014. While pursuing degrees at the State University of New York at Buffalo, he worked as a design engineer for Carleton Technologies (Cobham), lending his expertise in the areas of weapons and actuation systems, thermal management systems, and research and development. After completing his post-doc research on large-scale complex engineered systems at Iowa State University, Dr. Mesmer joined UAH College of Engineering as an assistant professor and has continued building upon the end-user modeling research he began as a doctoral student. He has also conducted researcher on ways to measure the exergy of the Space Launch System as part of a NASA grant. "The work we are performing will provide a unique way of characterizing the system," he says. "This will allow the capacity of the Space Launch System to be explored and expanded in the most effective ways in the future."
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About Bryan Mesmer
Dr. Bryan Mesmer joined UAH's ISEEM Department in 2014. While pursuing degrees at the State University of New York at Buffalo, he worked as a design engineer for Carleton Technologies (Cobham), lending his expertise in the areas of weapons and actuation systems, thermal management systems, and research and development. After completing his post-doc research on large-scale complex engineered systems at Iowa State University, Dr. Mesmer joined UAH College of Engineering as an assistant professor and has continued building upon the end-user modeling research he began as a doctoral student. He has also conducted researcher on ways to measure the exergy of the Space Launch System as part of a NASA grant. "The work we are performing will provide a unique way of characterizing the system," he says. "This will allow the capacity of the Space Launch System to be explored and expanded in the most effective ways in the future."
| December 2021 - Present | Director, Army Human Systems Laboratory, The University of Alabama in Huntsville | |
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| August 2020 - Present | Associate Professor, The University of Alabama in Huntsville ‐ Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Engineering Management | |
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| August 2014 - August 2020 | Assistant Professor, The University of Alabama in Huntsville ‐ Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Engineering Management | |
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| August 2012 - August 2014 | Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Iowa State University ‐ Department of Aerospace Engineering | |
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| January 2010 - August 2012 | Research Assistant, SUNY at Buffalo ‐ Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | |
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| September 2007 - June 2008 | Teaching Assistant, SUNY at Buffalo ‐ Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | |
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Research Interests
Improving the Design Process in Large-Scale Complex Systems, System Design Architecture, Interactions in Systems and Design, Incorporation of End-User Models and Simulations in Design, Integration of New System and Design Processes in Government and Industry Practice, Decision Making in Systems Engineering, The Art of Systems Engineering, Theory of Systems Engineering, Decision Theory in the Design Process, and Value-Based Engineering
Grants
| 2021 - 2023 | "Artificial Intelligence Driven Terrain Detection and Automated Decision Making in Mobile Robot Systems" |
| Leonard Wood Institute – Subcontract through Missouri University of Science and Technology | |
| Role: Co-PI | |
| Colleague(s): Vineetha Menon, Tathagata Mukherjee, Sampson Gholston | |
| $260,057 | |
| 2021 - 2022 | "Formation, Implementation, and Verification of Requirements for Human-Autonomy Teaming" |
| Naval Postgraduate School-CRUSER | |
| Role: Co-PI | |
| Colleague(s): Kristin Weger, Nathan Tenhundfeld, Nicholoas Jones | |
| $140,000 | |
| 2021 - 2022 | "UAH-ALDOT Mentor Protégé Program" |
| Alabama Department of Transportation | |
| Role: Co-PI | |
| Colleague(s): Sampson Gholston | |
| $240,690 | |
| 2021 - 2022 | "WRT-1058: Systems Engineering Modernization Policy, Practice, and Workforce Roadmaps" |
| Office of the Undersecretary of Defense – Subcontract through Systems Engineering Research Center | |
| Role: PI | |
| Colleague(s): Kristin Weger, Amy Guerin | |
| $160,000 | |
| 2020 - 2022 | "Motivating Use of Unmanned Assets in Human-Autonomy Teaming" |
| Naval Postgraduate School - CRUSER | |
| Role: PI | |
| Colleague(s): Kristin Weger, Nathan Tenhundfeld | |
| $90,000 | |
| 2017 - 2022 | "RS-25 Affordability Strategies" |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | |
| Role: Lead Researcher | |
| Colleague(s): Dale Thomas, Kristin Weger | |
| $655,042 | |
| 2017 - 2022 | "RS-25 Affordability Strategies" |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | |
| Role: Lead Researcher | |
| Colleague(s): Dale Thomas, Kristin Weger | |
| $655,042 | |
| 2020 - 2021 | "Spring 2021 - Application of Emerging Model-Based Systems Engineering Approaches" |
| Ford Motor Company | |
| Role: PI | |
| $21,582 | |
| 2020 - 2021 | "WRT-1028: Validation Framework for Assuring Adaptive and Learning- Enabled Systems" |
| Office of the Undersecretary of Defense – Subcontract through Systems Engineering Research Center | |
| Role: PI | |
| Colleague(s): Paul Collopy, Daniel Shapiro, Nicholoas Jones | |
| $238,677 | |
| 2019 - 2021 | "Autonomous Systems Adoption Challenges and Requirements Management Solutions" |
| Naval Postgraduate School - CRUSER | |
| Role: PI | |
| Colleague(s): Kristin Weger | |
| $100,000 | |
| 2019 - 2021 | "Autonomous Systems Adoption Challenges and Requirements Management Solutions" |
| Naval Postgraduate School - CRUSER | |
| Role: PI | |
| Colleague(s): Kristin Weger | |
| $100,000 | |
| 2019 - 2021 | "UAH-ALDOT Mentor Protégé Program" |
| Alabama Department of Transportation | |
| Role: Co-PI | |
| Colleague(s): Sampson Gholston | |
| $481,380 | |
| 2020 | "Application of Emerging Model-Based Systems Engineering Approaches" |
| Ford Motor Company | |
| Role: PI | |
| $19,372 | |
| 2019 - 2020 | "On-The-Job Training Supportive Services (OJT/SS) Program Pre- Apprentice Training Program (PATP)" |
| Alabama Department of Transportation | |
| Role: PI | |
| $113,816 | |
| 2017 - 2020 | "Scintillation Prediction Observations Research Task (SPORT)" |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | |
| Role: PI | |
| $185,086 | |
| 2019 | "Identifying and Analyzing Preferences for the Next Decade of Astrophysics Part II" |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | |
| Role: PI | |
| Colleague(s): Kristin Weger | |
| $11,830 | |
| 2019 | "Improving Engineering and Theatre through Knowledge Exchange" |
| University of Alabama in Huntsville – College of Engineering | |
| Role: PI | |
| Colleague(s): Amy Guerin, Kristin Weger | |
| $1,500 | |
| 2018 - 2019 | "Marsbee - Swarm of Flapping Wing Flyers for Enhanced Mars Exploration" |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | |
| Role: Co-PI | |
| Colleague(s): Chang-Kwan, Fabad Fahimi, Robert Griffin, David Brian Landrum, Guangsheng Zhang, TaeYoung Lee | |
| $129,999 | |
| 2018 | "Degraded Visual Environment Cueing Usability Task" |
| Department of Defense | |
| Role: Researcher | |
| Colleague(s): Gary Maddux | |
| $4,448 | |
| 2018 | "Identifying and Analyzing Preferences for the Next Decade of Astrophysics" |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | |
| Role: Bryan Mesmer | |
| $7,069 |
Professional Service and Affiliations
| 2021 - Present | Systems Engineering Division Chair, American Society for Engineering Education | 2021 - Present | Member, Internation Council on Systems Engineering | 2020 - Present | Systems Engineering Technical Committee Chair, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics | 2018 - Present | Publications Director, American Society for Engineering Management |
Honors and Awards
- 2022 UAH COE Outstanding Senior Faculty Award
- American Society for Engineering Managment Meritorious Service Award, 2021
- UAH 2019 University Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Mentor Award
- Americna Society for Engineering Management (ASEM) Best Dissertation Award, 2020
- College of Engineering Outstanding Faculty Research Award, 2019
- American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM) Meritorious Service Award- Outstanding Non-Board Member, 2018
Courses
- ISE 340: Operations Research
- ISE 428: Systems Analysis and Design I
- ISE 429: Systems Analysis and Design II
- ISE 623: Engineering Economics Analysis
- ISE 626: Introduction to Operations Research
- ISE 639: Special Topics: Hard Surface Modeling in Systems Engineering
- ISE 639: Special Topics: End-User Modeling
- ISE 639: Special Topics: Programming of Optimization Algorithms
- ISE 726: Systems Modeling
- ISE 739: Special Topics: Optimization in Aerospace Systems Design
- ISE 739: Special Topics: Advanced Game Theory
| 2010 - 2012 | Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, SUNY at Buffalo | |
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| 2007 - 2009 | M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, SUNY at Buffalo | |
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| 2003 - 2007 | B.S. Dual in Aerospace/Mechanical Engineering, SUNY at Buffalo | |
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Links
Contact Information
320 Sparkman Drive
Olin B. King Technology Hall
Room N135
Huntsville, AL 35899
bryan.mesmer@uah.edu
256-824-5620