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New faces, changing places
Posted 02/12/2009
MSOE's software engineering program owes much of its success to our great students and industry partners. Working with them are another indispensable group, the SE faculty. We'd like to introduce some "new" members and pass along a little news about recent changes.
 | Dr. Walter Schilling actually joined us in the winter quarter of the 2007-2008 academic year, and is rapidly becoming a veteran. After a number of years in the automotive industry, Dr. Schilling earned his doctoral degree from the University of Toledo. He is an expert in software reliability and embedded real-time systems. |
 | Dr. Ben Uphoff came to the SE program from the Los Alamos National Laboratory and from Packet Analytics Corporation, a startup that he co-founded and where he continues to serve as a board member and vice president of research. With a PhD earned at Iowa State University, he is a specialist in computer and network security and in high-volume data management. |
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| Dr. Jay Urbain recently completed his doctoral work at Illinois Institute of Technology and joined the full-time SE faculty after serving as an adjunct (part-time) professor for several years. He has extensive industry experience and is well known for his work in data mining of biomedical research data. |
| As the backgrounds of these new colleagues indicate, one common characteristic of SE faculty members is real-world software engineering experience. One potential problem with this is that SE faculty members are as attractive to other employers as they are to MSOE. Recently, we have been reminded of this as Dr. Deepti Suri has been successfully recruited to a position in industry. You may know Dr. Suri from her service as SE program director since 2004 and from her blog postings on this site. She was one of the first SE faculty members and has contributed in countless ways during her time at MSOE. We will all miss her greatly, but wish her the continued success that we know she will achieve. |  Dr. Deepti Suri |
| With Dr. Suri's departure, I (Dr. Mark Sebern) am returning to the role of SE program director. By way of introduction, I should explain that I joined the MSOE faculty full-time in 1994, after 20 years in industry that included 17 years running a computer and software engineering consulting firm. After leading the planning and development of the software engineering program from its inception in 1998, I served as founding program director until 2004, when I took a year of sabbatical leave at the Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Over the years, I have taught most of the courses in the SE curriculum, but I have a special interest in software process, software design tools, databases, and the application of formal (mathematical) methods to software specification and verification. |  Dr. Mark Sebern |