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  • Joseph Saleh
  • Assistant Professor

Contact Information

  • Phone: 404.385.6711
  • Fax: 404.894.2760
  • Office: Guggenheim 449A

Degrees

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

Biography

Not available.

Selected Publications

  • Saleh, J. H. “Analyses for Durability and System Design Lifetime: A multi-disciplinary approach” Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  • Saleh, J. H., Marais, K. “Reliability: how much is it worth? Beyond its estimation or prediction, the (net) present value of reliability.” Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Vol. 91, Issue 6, 2006, p.665–673.
  • 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., Torres-Padilla, J. P., Hastings, D., Newman, D. “To Reduce or to Extend a Spacecraft Design Lifetime?” Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 43, No. 1, 2006, p. 207–217.
  • Saleh, J. H., Torres-Padilla, J. P., Hastings, D., Newman, D. “Impact of Subsystem Reliability on Spacecraft Revenue Generation and Present Value.” Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 42, No. 6, 2005, p. 1122–1129.

Honors and Distinctions

  • 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 Best Thesis in Technology and Policy “for serving as Thesis Supervisor to Juan Pablo Torres Padilla”
  • The 2006 Best Thesis in Technology and Policy “for serving as Thesis Supervisor to Nicole Jordan”
  • Arthur Gelb Fellowship, Spring 2000
  • Charles S. Draper Fellowship, 1998-99

Research Interests

System design and optimization in general, spacecraft design in particular, researching concepts of time, uncertainty and flexibility in design, with emphasis in the following areas:
  • Analyses and design of the fractionated spacecraft
  • Novel value-centric approaches to design (as different from the traditional cost-centric or performance centric approaches)
  • Formalizing a theory of flexibility, obsolescence and valuation in system design
  • Identification and optimization of technical and “soft” levers of space responsiveness
  • Risk and system safety, integrating technical consideration with organization behaviors
    and agency theory