Mechanical Engineering Faculty Profile:

Dr. Marvin Roush
Professor Emeritus of Reliability Engineering

2174 Glenn L. Martin Hall, Building 088
University of Maryland
College Park, MD  20742

Phone: 301.405.7299
Fax: 301.314.9477
Email: mlroush@umd.edu

Research Interests

Probabilistic risk assessment, system reliability and availability

Education

Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1964

Select Publications

• Risk Engineering and Management, J.X. Wang and M.L. Roush, Marcel Dekker Inc, 2000.
• Applied Reliability Engineering, Vols. 1 and 2, M.L. Roush and W.M. Webb, Beacon Press, 2000.
• System engineering for human performance reliability with REHMS-D, K.P. LaSala and M.L. Roush, Communications in Reliability, Maintainability and Supportability, July 1994, pp 34-39.
• A probabilistic cost based method for evaluation of operational improvements in nuclear reactors, M. Modarres, M.L. Roush and F. Nouri, IEEE Transactions on Reliability R-34(1985)5.

Scientific and Professional Membership

Vice-President, IEEE Reliability Society; Member; Editorial Board, Reliability Engineering and System Safety Journal; Advisory Committee of the IEEE Reliability Society, IEEE Reliability Society Education Committee; Member, The Aerospace Industries Association Taskforce on Ultra-Reliable Electronic Systems, The ASQC Reliability Division Scholarship Committee, The Working Group 12 on Risk Assessment of the United States Committee of the International Electrotechnical Commission and Member-at-Large of the Management Committee of ANSI ASC Z1, which is the organization designated to coordinate development of U.S. standards on quality assurance, reliability and statistics.

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