Affiliate Assistant Professor 

Department of Computer Science
University of New Hampshire
Kingsbury Hall
Durham, NH 03824

Phone: (603) 862-2319
Michael.Deutsch@unh.edu

Biography

Michael S. Deutsch joined the Computer Science Department at UNH in 2008 after eight years at Texas A&M University where his appointment was Executive Professor in the Information and Operations Management Department.  He is also an independent consultant specializing in systems engineering, software project management, and software cost estimation.  Through 2000, Mr. Deutsch was Chief Scientist at Hughes Electronics’ Network Systems in Germantown, MD where he guided long range software engineering improvement planning.  His 30+ years of practical experience in system and software engineering have spanned an entire range of disciplines: system engineering, quality assurance, development, verification and validation, new business acquisition, and project management.  Applications experience has entailed real-time sensor processing, satellite mission planning, sensor control, information systems, and telecommunications systems.  Deutsch is the author of two textbooks on software quality methods: Software Verification and Validation: Realistic Project Approaches and Software Quality Engineering: A Total Technical and Management Approach.  He has been associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and is a member of the IEEE Computer Society.  In 1989, he represented Hughes Electronics as a visiting affiliate at the Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University.

Education

• B.S., Meteorology, 1966, Pennsylvania State University; University Park, PA.
• M.S., Atmospheric Sciences, 1967, University of California; Los Angeles, CA. 

Present UNH Work: Graduate Certificate Program in Software Systems Engineering

Interests: Software Systems Engineering, Project Management

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