Dr. Bryan Mesmer

Associate Professor, ISEEM

Contact

5000 Technology Drive NW
Olin B. King Technology Hall
Room N135
Huntsville, AL 35899
Campus Map

256.824.5620
bryan.mesmer@uah.edu

Biography

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."

Dr. Mesmer established the Imagining Engineering Systems (ImagEnS) lab at UAH in 2016 to examine preferences in systems engineering. His research team includes graduate and undergraduate researchers who explore non-traditional disciplines, including the use of gamification in training, the communication of preferences through storytelling, and the study of performance metrics of large-scale engineered systems.

Curriculum Vitae

Research Group

Education

  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2012
  • M.S., Mechanical Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2010
  • B.S., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2007

Affiliations

  • Member - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Technical Committee Associate Member
  • Member - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  • Member - Institute of Industrial Engineers

Expertise

  • 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
  • Value-Based Engineering

Recent Publications

  • Watson, M., Mesmer, B., Farrington, P., "Engineering Elegant Systems: Postulates, Principles, and Hypothesis of Systems Engineering", 2018 Conference on Systems Engineering Research (CSER 2018), Charlottesville, VA, May, 2018

  • Clerkin, J., Mesmer, B., "A Review of Value Modeling in the NASA Systems Engineering Research Consortium", 2018 Conference on Systems Engineering Research (CSER 2018), Charlottesville, VA, May, 2018

  • Bhatia, G., Mesmer. B, Weger, K., "Mathematical Representation of Stakeholder Preferences for the SPORT Small Satellite Project", AIAA SciTech 2018, Orlando, FL, January, 2018

  • Palma, G., Mesmer, B., "A Preliminary Content Analysis of NASA's Nextstep-2 Habitat Documentation for Preference Representation", AIAA SciTech 2018, Orlando, FL, January, 2018

  • Kwasa, B., Bloebaum, C., Kannan, H., Mesmer, B., "Impact of Varying Decision-Maker Beliefs in a Value-Based Systems Engineering Framework", ASEM 2017 International Annual Conference, Huntsville, AL, October, 2017

  • Palma, G., Mesmer, B., Guerin, A., "Similarities of Milestones in Theatre Productions and Systems Engineering", ASEM 2017 International Annual Conference, Huntsville, AL, October, 2017

  • Bhatia, G., Dyas, J., Clerkin, J., Mesmer, B., "Formation of Preliminary Questionnaires for the Solicitation of Stakeholder Preferences", ASEM 2017 International Annual Conference, Huntsville, AL, October, 2017

  • Bhatia, G., Mesmer, B., "Integrating SysML and Value-Based Design with an NEA Scout Small Satellite Example", AIAA Space Forum and Exposition, Orlando, FL, September, 2017

  • Dyas, J., Clerkin, J., Mesmer, B., "Value Modeling NASA Funding Allocations with a Congressional Stakeholder", AIAA Space Forum and Exposition, Orlando, FL, September, 2017