Dennis K. Peters

Associate Professor
B.Eng. (Memorial), M.Eng., Ph.D. (McMaster), P. Eng., SMIEEE

Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science
also cross appointed to Dept. of Computer Science, Faculty of Science

Office: EN-3061
E-mail: dpeters at mun.ca
Phone: (709) 737-8929
Fax: (709) 737-4042

Research

My research is concerned with developing techniques and tools to facilitate the production, analysis and use of documentation for computer system behavioural requirements and design. Such documentation must be both

clear enough to be read and understood, with a minimum of special training, by both 'domain experts' and programmers, and
complete and precise enough to allow thorough analysis, by manual or automatic means.

Currently I am researching ways of using system requirements documentation for real-time systems to generate a 'monitor' that can determine if the behaviour of an implemented system is consistent with the requirements. Such a monitor is useful for both system testing and run-time supervision of safety critical systems. For more details about my research, please see my publications.

Future research topics include system and software design analysis and specification of interface modules.

I did my graduate studies with the Software Engineering Research Group, which has become the Software Quality Research Laboratory (SQRL), at McMaster University.

Teaching

Fall 2009: ENGI 7893 Software Engineering
Previous courses

Professional Associations

Registered Professional Engineer in the province of Newfoundland.
Senior Member of the IEEE, including
- Computer Society, and
- Newfoundland & Labrador Section, of which I am the student branch counselor (2006-2009).
Member of the ACM, including the Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT).
I also volunteer with the Newfoundland chapter of the Tetra Society.

Given all that, you may be inclined to ask "Are you a Software Engineer?"

Personal

If you get this far and still want something else to click on, try my Geek's Photo Album.

Or try the nerd test: I scored a bit higher than I'd guessed.

Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL
Canada A1B 3X5

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