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Mark Austin Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA

Phone : (301)-405-6627 FAX : (301)-405-6707 E-mail : austin@isr.umd.edu

August 1993 to present

• University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.
  Associate Professor
  • Joint appointments in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Institute for Systems Research . Affiliate appointment with Interdisciplinary Program of Applied Mathematics.
  • Graduate Director for Master of Science in Systems Engineering Program .
  • Associate Director, Systems Engineering and Integration Laboratory .
  • Member, Advanced Information Technology Laboratory .

August 1987 to July 1993

• University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.
  Assistant Professor
  • Joint appointments in Department of Civil Engineering and Systems Research Center.

June 1993 to May 1995

• Hughes Information Technology Systems , Landover, Maryland.
  Scientist/Engineer
  • Formulated Education Program for NASA's Earth Observing System Data Information System (EOSDIS) Program.

December 1985 to July 1987

• University of California , Berkeley, California
  Research Engineer, Department of Civil Engineering
  • Conducted research on Computer-Aided Design of Earthquake Resistant Structures.

• Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from the University of California , Berkeley in 1985.
• M.S. in Structural Engineering from the University of California , Berkeley in 1982.
• B.E. (First Class Honors) from University of Canterbury , New Zealand in 1980.

• Chairman, Applications Forum Working Group, International Council of Systems Engineering
• Member, American Society of Civil Engineers
• Member, Association of Computing Machinery
• Member, New Zealand Society of Earthquake Engineering

• Austin M.A., Lin W.J., and Chen X.G., Structural Matrix Computations with Units, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering , ASCE, Vol. 14, No. 3, July 2000, pp. 174-182. Also see "Structural Matrix Computations with Units : Data Structures, Algorithms, and Scripting Language Design," ISR Technical Report 99-63, Formats Available: Postscript (compressed) (406 KB) : Acrobat pdf (392 KB)
• Austin M.A., and Chancogne D., Introduction to Engineering Programming in C, MATLAB, and Java , John-Wiley and Sons , New York, p. 656. December, 1998.
• Lin W.J. and Austin M.A., Design of a Scripting Language for the Energy-Based Analysis of Nonlinear Structural Systems, I3th U.S. National Congress of Applied Mechanics, University of Florida, Gainesville, June 21-26, 1998. Formats Available: Postscript (compressed) (273 KB)
• Austin M.A., Web-Based Systems Engineering Application Profiles, Presented at 8th Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering, Vancouver, Canada, July 26-30, 1998. Formats Available: Postscript (compressed) (328 KB)
• Chancogne D., and Austin M., Web Dieting -- Dynamic and Interactive Environment Tools for the Web , Sixth World Wide Web Conference , Stanford, California, April 1997, p. 11.
• Austin M.A., X.G. Chen, W.J. Lin , ALADDIN : A Computational Toolkit for Interactive Engineering Matrix and Finite Element Analysis, Technical Report TR 95-74 , Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, August 1995.
• Austin M.A. and Voon B.K. , Structural Optimization in a Distributed Computing Environment, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering , Vol. 107, September 1993, pp. 173-192.
• Austin M.A. , High Order Integration of Structural Dynamics Equations : Theory and Numerical Experiments,'' International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering , Vol. 36, July 1993, pp. 2107-2122.
• Austin M.A., Krishnaprasad P.S., and Wang L.S. , Almost Poisson Integration of Rigid Body Systems, Journal of Computational Physics , Volume 107, June, 1993, pp. 105-117.
• Austin M.A., Creighton S., and Albrecht P. , XBUILD : Preprocessor for Finite Element Analysis of Steel Bridges, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering , ASCE, January, 1993, pp. 54-70.
• Austin M.A., and Preston J. , Solid Modeling of RC Beams, Part 1 : Data Structures and Algorithms, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering , ASCE, October 1992, pp. 389-403.
• Preston J., and Austin M.A. , Solid Modeling of RC Beams, Part 2 : Computational Environment, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering , ASCE. October 1992, pp. 404-416.
• Austin M.A., Mahin S.A., and Pister K.S., CSTRUCT : Computer Environment for the Design of Steel Structures, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering , ASCE, July, 1989, pp. 209-227.

• Austin M.A., Baras J.S., and Kositsyna N.I., Combined Research and Curriculum Development in Information-Centric Systems Engineering , Presented at INCOSE 2002, Las Vegas, July 31, 2002.
• Austin M.A., Baras J., Casey M., Kositsyna N., NSF-CRCD: Combined Research and Curriculum Development in Systems Engineering. Poster Presentation , Research Review Day, University of Maryland, March 1, 2002.
• Austin M.A. and Kositsyna N.I., Combined Research and Curriculum Development in Systems Engineering , Presented at General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY. November 5, 2001. Note. To see the Java-enabled components of this presentation, you will need a browser that supports Java 2 (e.g., Netscape 6 or MS Internet Explorer 5).
• Austin M.A., Enhancing Web-based Project Management with Java and XML , Presentation to ENCE 626 : Web-based Project Management, University of Maryland, November 14, 2001. Note. To see the Java-enabled components of this presentation, you will need a browser that supports Java 2 (e.g., Netscape 6 or MS Internet Explorer 5).

• 1989-1991 : NSF Research Initiation Award
• 1985-1986 : Winiata Memorial Bursary
• 1982 : W.W. Van Arnesdale Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley
• 1981 : Earle C. Anthony Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley
• 1980 : New Zealand Senior University Scholarship
• 1978-1980 : Southland Savings Bank Scholarship

• Computer Programming: FORTRAN, C, YACC, make, X Windows/Motif, TCP/IP.
• Internet Programming: HTML, Java, XML, Javascript and CGI.
• Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, Windows 98.
• Software Packages: LaTeX, TeX, MATLAB, Photoshop 5, xv, xfig, and others.

• Available upon request