

The acronyms may vary but best practices translate fairly easily from one area to another.

The good news is that there are threads of commonality in best practices among these systems. The material in this book presents best practices in developing mission-assured, mission-critical, and safety-critical systems for medical devices, avionics, military equipment, and spacecraft subsystems. Read moreīest Practices in Mission-Assured, Mission-Critical, and Safety-Critical Systems Kim currently is a graduate student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Kansas State University to finally get his PhD to teach and research. He has 18 patents - granted, pending, or disclosed. He has published widely and has written three textbooks - this book is his fourth. He has been President of the IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement society and an adjunct professor for the Johns Hopkins University Engineering Professional Program. Kim is a Fellow of the IEEE and lectures internationally on systems engineering and developing real-time embedded products. He has also worked for JHU/APL designing embedded systems, for a company now part of Curtiss-Wright Embedded Computing that built digital signal processing boards, and consulted for both commercial companies and government agencies. Kim co-founded Stimsoft, a medical products company, in 1998 and sold it in 2003. His interest is the rigorous development of diverse, mission-critical, embedded systems. Kim Fowler has spent over 30 years in the design, development, and project management of medical, military, and satellite equipment.
