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Mark W. Maier is a systems architect/engineer with The Aerospace Corporation in Chantilly, VA. He received his B.S. in Engineering and Applied Science and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1991. From 1983 to 1992 he was an engineer and manager at the Hughes Aircraft Company. From 1992 to 1999 he was an Assistant and then Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). He joined The Aerospace Corporation in 1998 on a sabbatical leave and has remained since.

While at Hughes he pioneered an approach to software-based electronic warfare signal analysis, now widely deployed in production systems. At UAH he conducted research on systems architecting, radar signal processing, data compression, microsatellites, and computer networking. His work on microsatellites led to the licensing of radiation tolerant computer systems designs and the launch of the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space Satellite (SEDSAT-1) in 1998.

He is the author (with Eberhardt Rechtin) of The Art of Systems Architecting, Second Edition, CRC Press, 2000 and many papers and articles.

Dr. Maier has widely taught systems engineering and architecture in industry. He began teaching the Hatley-Pirbhai method at Hughes, and also led the first large-scale implementation on a production program. He has lectured internationally on systems architecting (including many INCOSE chapters) and advised on its implementation in aerospace, semiconductor, and pharmaceutical companies. At Aerospace he developed and teaches the corporate certificate program in systems architecting.

He was awarded a Howard Hughes Doctoral Fellowship, the UAH engineering outstanding Assistant Professor award, and three Aerospace Institute Achievement awards. He was a primary author of IEEE Standard 1471, Recommended Practice for Architectural Description.

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