Institute for Systems Research

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Systems Engineering
Founded in 1985

Originally the Systems Research Center, ISR is one of the National Science Foundation's original six engineering research centers.

Interdisciplinary by nature

More than 60 ISR faculty, from 13 departments and five University of Maryland colleges, develop basic solution methodologies and tools for a wide range of systems problems.

Graduate systems education

ISR offers M.S., M.Eng. and certificate options in systems engineering with a variety of specializations and both thesis and non-thesis options.

Enabling technologies

ISR research addresses issues associated with the technical development of systems.

Analysis and design tools

Engineering and biological system frontiers can be pushed because engineers have powerful analysis and design tools that ISR was key in developing.

News & Events

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Apr 2, 2020

Reliability Engineering Ph.D./ECE M.S. student Paul Watrobski...

The paper describes how device characterization techniques could be used to describe IoT device communication...

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Apr 2, 2020

Abed on NSF Engineering CAREER Proposal Writing Workshop...

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Apr 1, 2020

2020 Energy Seed Grants Awarded

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Apr 1, 2020

Former post-doc Pomerantseva earns tenure at Drexel

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Mar 31, 2020

In Race With Virus, Researchers Speed Development of Medical...

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ONLINE CS Department Seminar: Implicit Traffic Signals: A Systems Approach to Human-Robot Navigation
April 8, 2020

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ONLINE AE Department Seminar: Space (and other) Robotics at NRL
April 8, 2020

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ONLINE AE Department Seminar: Towards High Performance Robotics in the Wild
April 8, 2020

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M.S. Thesis Defense: Akshay Bapat, "Decentralized Task Algorithms for Multi-Agent Systems"
April 15, 2020

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M.S. Thesis Defense: Swapneel Naphade, "Estimation and Control of Autonomous Racing Drone"
April 15, 2020

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MSE Seminar: Biological materials, Biomaterials & Biomimetics: Emulating performance-defining...
April 24, 2020

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Booz Allen Hamilton Colloquium: Daniel Cunningham, ARPA-E, Department of Energy
April 24, 2020

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The Student Advantage: Why You Should Start Your Company Today
April 30, 2020

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Booz Allen Hamilton Colloquium: Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, Carnegie-Mellon

May 1, 2020

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Booz Allen Hamilton Colloquium: Xiaofeng Wang, Indiana University Bloomington
May 8, 2020