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Roger M. Kieckhafer Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. 713 Electrical Energy Resource Center Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI 49931-1295

Email ..... rmkieckh@mtu.edu Phone .... 906-487-2866 Fax ....... 906-487-2949

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General:

• Current Weekly Schedule -- Showing only pre-ordained "hard" commitments
• Top-Ten Laws of Dependability -- Compiled from many sources over many years
• Curriculum Vitae -- More or less up to date (usually less)
  
  

Teaching:

• EE-3173 -- Hardware/Software System Integration
• EE-4431 -- Computer Architecture
  
  
• Research:

• Fault-Tolerant Distributed Computing Systems:  including
• Safety Critical Systems, High Assurance Systems, High Integrity Systems, etc,
• Fault-Tolerant Computer Architectures for Embedded & Distributed Real-Time Systems, 
• High Assurance Real-Time Wireless Sensor Nets.
  
  
• Theoretical foundations of Fault-Tolerance: including
• Byzantine Agreement, Approximate Agreement, Convergent Voting, Clock Synchronization,
• Voting and Agreement under Hybrid Fault Models.
  
  
• Reliability Modeling and Formal Design Methods: including
• Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA), Markov, Petri Net, and Stochastic Reward Net Modeling,
• Integrated Performance/Reliability modeling for large, complex systems.

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for more information contact: rmkieckh@mtu.edu.