Research - Systems Engineering

Faculty Research: Energy Systems Architecture Transportation Human Centered Cybersecurity Aerospace & Defense

Faculty Research

Systems engineering is an intrinsically interdisciplinary field.

Research areas incorporate many different disciplines both in traditional engineering areas as well as those outside of engineering such as health care, food systems, environmental studies, and many others.

Past Theses & Dissertations

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Student Research

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Systems Design/Management

Medical and Human-Centric Systems

Gregory Marzolf

Defense and Aerospace

Gregory Marzolf

Decision Support

Watch: CSU Systems Engineering professors worked with Woodward, Inc. to rapidly develop a ventilator in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Analytics and Cybersecurity

Transportation and Infrastructure Systems

Medical and Human-Centric Systems

Visualization and Imaging

Systems Modeling

Energy Systems

Transportation and Infrastructure Systems

Defense and Aerospace Systems

John “Mike” Borky

Kamran Eftekhari Shahroudi

Water Systems

Operations Research

Energy Systems

Defense and Aerospace

Kamran Eftekhari Shahroudi

Water Systems

Featured Research

Sandra “Sandy” Dawson has on her doctoral regalia and is standing next to Ann Batchelor. Both are white women smiling. The background is strands of shiny party strings and stars in CSU colors."

CSU grants its first ever Doctorate of Engineering in Systems Engineering degree

May 17, 2023

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Evaluating the sustainability of the 2017 US biofuel industry with an integrated techno-economic analysis and life cycle assessment

May 17, 2023

Characterizing the nature of trust & misinformation on Twitter

May 17, 2023

Graphic includes various icons and the text: A model for measuring multi-concern assurance of critical infrastructure control systems.

A model for measuring multi-concern assurance of critical infrastructure control systems

May 17, 2023

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Technical debt in systems engineering—A systematic literature review

April 18, 2023

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Global Food Chain Traceability—Reflections on the Past, Present, and Insights into Future Directions

April 18, 2023

Jake Jepson is pictured bending over with one hand on his knee while the other gestures at the internal components of a heavy truck’s cab that were removed to be used as a testbed. A headlight from the cab testbed is in the at the top of the image with various wires, pipes, and plugs underneath. Jepson has on a gray sweater and blue jeans. He has curly dark blond hair and is looking toward the wires.

Student hackers take control, learn how to protect transportation infrastructure

March 28, 2023

Mitigation of Chemical Reporting Liabilities through Systematic Modernization of Chemical Hazard and Safety Data Management Systems

February 14, 2023