Geogria Institute of Technology

• Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 2002.
• M.A. Near Eastern Civilizations, Harvard University, June 2006
• Diplôme d’Ingénieur in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace, SUPAERO, Toulouse, France    June 1997

1. (Space) System Design: Theory and Applications

• Value-centric approaches to system design and acquisition
• Satellite reliability and multi-state failure analysis
• Survivability and resiliency of spacecraft and space-based networks
• Spacecraft technology portfolio, responsiveness, and programmatic issues
• Flexibility, obsolescence, and system valuation

2. Accident Causation and System Safety: research, education, and advocacy

• Towards a formal foundation of safety in socio-technical and multilevel systems
• Augmenting defense-in-depth with the concepts of observability and diagnosability from Control Theory and Discrete Event Systems
• Safety in the Mining Industry and the Unfinished Legacy of Mining Accidents: Safety Levers and the Principle of Defense-in-Depth for Addressing Mining Hazard
• Accident causation and system safety: multidisciplinary education for engineering students

• Lockheed Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award, Georgia Institute of Technology, April 2010.
• Most Valuable Professor (MVP) award, School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008
• Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
• Senior Member, IEEE
• Faculty Appreciation Award, from the Technology and Policy Program at MIT
• Vickie Kerrebrock Award, from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT
• The 2005 mentoring award of the Best Thesis in Technology and Policy at MIT “for serving as Thesis Supervisor to Juan Pablo Torres Padilla”
• The 2006 mentoring award of the Best Thesis in Technology and Policy at MIT “for serving as Thesis Supervisor to Nicole Jordan”
• Charles S. Draper Fellowship, 1998-99

Books:

• Saleh, J. H., Castet, J.-F. “Spacecraft Reliability and Multi-State Failures: A Statistical Approach.” John Wiley & Sons, March 2011.
• Saleh, J. H., Analyses for Durability and System Design Lifetime: A multi-disciplinary approach," Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Journal Articles:

• Saleh, J. H. “Perspectives in Design: the deacon’s masterpiece and the hundred-year aircraft, spacecraft, and other complex engineering systems.” Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 127, September 2005, p. 845–850.
• Saleh, J. H., Marais, K. B., Bakolas, E., Cowlagi, R. V. “Highlights from the literature on system safety and accident causation: Review of major ideas, recent contributions, and challenges.” Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Vol 95, Issue 11, 2010, pp. 1105–1116.
• Bakolas, E., Saleh, J. H. “Augmenting defense-in-depth with the concepts of observability and diagnosability from Control Theory and Discrete Event Systems.” Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Vol. 96, Issue 1, 2011, pp. 184–193.
• Wise, M.A., Saleh, J.H., Haga, R.A. “Health Scorecard of Spacecraft Platforms: Track Record of On-Orbit Anomalies and Failures and Preliminary Comparative Analysis.” Acta Astronautica, Vol. 68, Issue 1–2, 2011, pp. 253–268.
• Dubos, G. F., Saleh, J. H. “Spacecraft Technology Portfolio: Probabilistic Modeling and Implications for Responsiveness and Schedule Slippage.” Acta Astronautica, Vol. 68, Issues 7-8, 2011, pp. 1126–1146.
• Dubos, G. F., Saleh, J. H. “Risk of Spacecraft On-Orbit Obsolescence: New Framework, Stochastic Modeling, and Implications.” Acta Astronautica, Vol. 67, Issue 1-2, 2010, pp. 155–172.
• Saleh, J. H., Mark, G. T., Jordan, N. C. “Flexibility: a multi-disciplinary literature review and a research agenda for designing flexible systems.“ Journal of Engineering Design, Vol. 20, No. 3, 2009, pp. 307–323.
• Brathwaite, J., Saleh, J. H. “Value-Centric Framework and Pareto Optimality for Design and Acquisition of Communication Satellites.” International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, Vol. 27, Issue 6, 2009, pp. 330–348).
• Marais, K., Saleh, J. H. “Beyond its cost, the value of maintenance: An analytical framework for capturing its Net Present Value.” Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Vol. 94, Issue 2, 2009, pp. 644–657.
• Saleh, J. H., Cummings, A. M. “Safety in the Mining Industry and the Unfinished Legacy of Mining Accidents: Safety Levers and the Principle of Defense-in-Depth for Addressing Mining Hazards.” Safety Science, Vol. 49, Issue 6, 2011, pp. 764–777.