The Center for Technology and Systems Management (CTSM) is a research center at the A. James Clark School of Engineering of the University of Maryland, College Park, United States. Established in 1996, the center includes both University of Maryland faculty and staff and external associates. It is involved in research in systems engineering, including functional modeling, technology forecasting, and assessment; human and organizational factors; expert opinion elicitation; reliability, risk, and uncertainty analysis; failure, crash and accident investigation, including forensic engineering; information technology; project management including network optimization and equilibrium problems; and robotics, automation, control and intelligent systems.
The CTSM "develops technologies and creatively utilize sophisticated analytical tools to meet a set of objectives for decision situations relating to various systems, such as defense, homeland security, maritime, infrastructure, facility, health, intelligent and equipment systems." The CTSM trains graduate students and researchers.
Professor Bilal M. Ayyub is the director of the Center.
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