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Dr.
David Corral
Dr.
David Corrall, Ph.D., C.Math., FIMA, has worked in the theory and application of
optical, radar and sonar systems, pattern analysis, machine intelligence, signal
processing, knowledge-based systems and computer vision systems spanning a
period of some 35 years as analyst, technical manager and project manager in
various civil and military programmes. He was technical manager of the
Technology Group, Marconi Radar and Control Systems. His current role in BAE
SYSTEMS is the development of smart decision support for systems.
Issues of accommodating the needs of Industry and Academia are common to several projects with which he has been involved. In particular, he initiated, and was project manager of, VIEWS: Visual Inspection and Evaluation of Wide-area Scenes, ESPRIT Project 2156 (1989-1993). He is currently project manager of SIMP: Systems Integration for Major Projects (2000-2003), which is funded by EPSRC under its Systems Engineering and Systems Integration Initiative and driven by Industry needs.
Dr.
Galal H Galal
Dr
Galal H Galal BSc, MSc, PhD, MBCS, is currently a Principal Lecturer in the
School of Computing Science at Middlesex University with responsibilities for
the strategic development of information systems and software engineering
research within the School. Before that, he was a full time faculty member of
the Department of Information Systems and Computer Science at Brunel University
for nearly ten years, where he lectured on a wide variety of Software
Engineering and Information Systems topics to undergraduate and postgraduate
students. He has also published over 30 refereed articles in the areas of
Software Engineering, Information Systems and Knowledge-Based Systems.
His research interests include software and systems engineering methodologies and processes, requirements engineering and systems architecting. His formal qualifications include a BSc in Management Sciences (Maxima cum laude) and an MSc in Systems Analysis and Design. He was awarded his Ph.D. in 1996 from Brunel University for research into interpretive approaches to information systems engineering. Since 1996, Galal has formally taken up studying Architecture (as in buildings) and is currently in the final stage of a Master’s degree in Advanced Architectural Studies at the Bartlett Graduate School, UCL. He is also in the third year of a part-time BA degree in Architecture. Before joining Middlesex, he was a Senior Research Fellow in software systems engineering, acting as the co-ordinator of RENOIR, the Requirements Engineering Network of International Co-operating Research Groups, an EU funded programme at the department of Computer Science, UCL. He co-organised the latest two ECOOP workshops in the area of Object-Oriented Architectural Evolution.
Prof.
Derek K Hitchins
Derek
retired from full time academic work in 1994 on medical grounds, and is now a
part-time consultant, teacher, visiting professor and international lecturer.
Formerly, he held the British Aerospace Chairs in Systems Science and in Command
and Control, Cranfield University at RMCS Shrivenham. Prior to that he held the
Chair in Engineering Management at City University, London.
Derek started as a Cranwell apprentice and retired as a wing commander from the Royal Air Force after 22 years, to join industry. His first industry appointments were as the System Design Manager of the Tornado F3 Avionics, Technical Co-ordinator for UKAIR CCIS, and UK Technical Director for the NATO Air Command and Control System (ACCS) project in Brussels. He subsequently held posts in two leading systems engineering companies as Marketing Director, Business Development Director and Technical Director before becoming an academic in 1988.
His current research is into system thinking, system requirements, social psychology & anthropology, Egyptology, command & control, system design and world class systems engineering. He published his first book, “Putting Systems to Work”, in 1992, and is presently writing “Advanced Systems Thinking, Engineering and Management” and "Systems Engineering the Pyramids".
James
Kirby is Director of the SEC-DERA’s Systems and Software Engineering Centre.
The SEC is an emerging Centre of Excellence in systems and software, working
with government, industry, commerce and academia to record, enhance and promote
best practice. Its 300 staff provide consultancy and support, together with
software and systems projects and training.
James is a graduate of Oxford University and also holds a M.Eng. from Liverpool University and a Henley Management College MBA. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and is a Board Member of INCOSE UK.
James has spent nearly all his working life in industry. He was the youngest director at Smiths Industries Aerospace at Cheltenham, having joined as a software engineer and rapidly progressed through systems engineering, international project management, engineering management and general management positions. He also developed major business with Boeing, Seattle. Prior to that, James was a technologist with Plessey Telecommunications. James joined DERA to grow and diversify the SEC, seeking to combine industrial and public sector best practice, as DERA transitions through Public Private Partnership and beyond.
Professor
David L I Kirkpatrick, MSc (Econ), PhD, FRAeS, is Head of the Defence
Engineering Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University College
London. He graduated in 1960 with first-class honours in aeronautical
Engineering from the Queen's University of Belfast and, later, obtained an MSc
in Economics at Birkbeck College and a PhD in aerodynamics from the University
of Southampton.
After industrial experience at Short Bros & Harland and post-graduate study at the University of Virginia in the United States, he joined the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE). He transferred to the UK Ministry of Defence in 1976, undertaking operational analysis for the RAF and project cost forecasting for the Procurement Executive.
In 1985 he was appointed to the British Defence Staff in Washington as Attache Defence Equipment, Air. He returned to the UK in 1988 to become Head of Aerodynamics Department at RAE. Professor Kirkpatrick was transferred to the Procurement Executive in 1992 as Director, Project Time and Cost Analysis.
In 1995 he retired from the Scientific Civil Service and joined the Defence Engineering Group (DEG), becoming Head in 1999. He also holds a personal Chair of Defence Analysis. Professor Kirkpatrick has published widely on aerodynamics and aircraft design, operational and cost analysis, defence procurement and defence economics and military history.
Peter
Lister, MA CEng MIEE, is currently President of the UK Chapter of INCOSE. Peter has been involved in Systems Engineering for over 21 years, mainly
in the defence & aerospace sector. His
concept of SE has been developed and tested on large-scale development projects
such as the EH101 helicopter and the RMPA (Nimrod MRA4). From the early days when he was ‘engineering systems’ (as opposed to
Systems Engineering) he became convinced that defined processes for SE are
essential for efficient development.
Peter has recently joined Siemens Transportation Systems Ltd with a remit to introduce an enterprise wide SE Process for mainline railway signalling projects.
The
working career of Professor Andy Low, MA (Cam), PhD (Cam), CEng, CPhys, FIEE,
FInstP, began in 1978. In that year he was appointed a Research Fellow at
Trinity College, Cambridge. He soon moved to accept the challenges of industry
working first for Smith Associates Consulting Systems Engineers Ltd., where he
became the first Technical Director with responsibilities including developing a
laboratory.
In 1986 he became the Chief Engineer, Radio Communications at Plessey Research, Roke Manor passing through the post of Research Manager Radio Communications at Roke Manor Research to become Managing Director at Roke Manor Research Ltd and then Managing Director at Siemens Environmental Systems Ltd working on mobile radio systems.
He currently holds the post of Managing Director of Racal Research Limited where the work covers forward looking technology acquisition, COTS use and advanced product development for radar, EW, military and civil telecommunications and internet applications. Following the takeover of Racal by Thomson-CSF, Dr Low was appointed to the role of Director of Technology of Thomson-CSF Racal PLC, where he is responsible for their defence technology acquisition programme and leads a Systems Engineering process improvement initiative. He has been involved with systems teams of some 100 people and budgets of £20m.
Specific Interests are:- Civil and military mobile communication systems; Radar and EW systems; Image processing systems; Navigation systems; Military application of COTS equipment and systems; Systems Engineering process improvement; Cost effective introduction of emerging technologies.
Andy was a member of IEE Professional Group E8 (Radio Systems); Visiting Industrial Professor, Department of Electronics and Information Technology, University of Glamorgan; Past Chairman of Defence & Aerospace Foresight Working Party on Sensors and Sensor Systems; Member of UK National Advisory Council on Systems Engineering; Visiting Professor, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton; and he is an Independent Member of Defence Advisory Council. Dr Low is a Member of the UK Chapter of INCOSE.
Prof.
Philip M’Pherson, SM (MIT), MA(Oxon),
FIEE, CEng., has been a systems engineer for over 40 years. It began in the Royal Navy with propulsion, weapons and SINS, got
focussed at MIT and developed on nuclear reactor stability and control in the
UKEA. He took it into universities
(City), hijacking an engineering department to become one of the first to
concentrate on Systems Science and SE, got fixed on complexity and value
management, and retired early to take disguised SE into business, accounting,
and back into industry.
Philip M’Pherson has degrees from MIT and Oxford University. He is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the IEE, Emeritus Professor of Systems Engineering and Management at the City University, Freeman of the City of London and Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Engineers. He has served on too many committees, and has tried to spread the systems engineering gospel from London to China, with many stops in between. From 1951-59 he was involved, as Lt Cdr, in naval fire control, gyrostabilisation and submarine inertial navigation systems.
Then, from 1960 – 65, Philip was the Head, Dynamics Group, AEEW, working on Nuclear power reactor dynamics and control. From 1965-87 he moved into ‘Systems Engineering and Science’ in Universities as a Fellow, St Johns’ College, Oxford; Professor of Systems Engineering and Management, City University, and Pro-Vice Chancellor in 1981-87.
From 1987 Prof M’Pherson has been the Principal of ‘Systems and Value Consultancy’ specialising in the development of Inclusive Value Measurement (IVM) which emerges from SE and cost-effectiveness analysis. This has rolled out to several corporate clients for the evaluation and integration of complex projects, to measure Value for Money and that most important asset of all – intellectual capital.
Prof.
Peter H Sydenham
Peter
Sydenham has BE Hons (Adel), ME (Adel), PhD (Warwick) and DSc (Warwick) degrees
in electronic engineering and measurement systems. Academic leadership posts
include Head, School of Electronic Engineering, University of South Australia
and Director/founder of a sequence of research centres in Industrial Large Scale
Metrology, Global Geophysics, Measurement and Instrumentation Systems, Test and
Evaluation and Systems Engineering and Evaluation.
Peter currently shares his living and work time as Professor of Systems Test and Evaluation with the Systems Engineering and Evaluation Centre, University of South Australia and with the Defence Engineering Group, University College London where he is assisting develop the MSc in Systems Test and Evaluation. He also conducts consulting work as the Director of Global Systems Engineering Consulting Pty Ltd.
He is the Chairman/Founder of the INCOSE Education Measurement Working Group (EMWG) who are working on Systems Engineering staff formation. He is a member of the INCOSE (central) Board of Directors, and Deputy Chairman-Academic for the 2001 Australian INCOSE Annual Symposium. He is convening the Academic Forum of that Symposium.
Peter is a member of INCOSE UK and of the Systems Engineering Association of Australia (SESA), an affiliate organisation of INCOSE.
Peter is a recipient of the Richard G Cross award of the International Test and Evaluation Association (ITEA) and a member of its Senior Advisory Board.
Current interests are Measurement Systems, Systems Test and Evaluation and contributing to structural improvement for Systems Engineering in academia. He is extensively published in both academic and popular lists. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the John Wiley, UK, ‘Measurement Science and Technology’ book Series.
Martin
Testo joined the Royal Navy as a Weapon Engineer Officer in 1979. Initial training included service on board the Type 42 Destroyer HMS
GLASGOW. Other appointments
included: Head of Weapon Engineering department of an OBERON Class submarine;
Staff of the Flag Officer Submarines, planning, conducting and analysing weapon
system development trials; Assistant UPHOLDER Class submarine Through Life
Support and Weapon System Manager.
In 1993 he joined BMT Defence Services Ltd providing support to the tri-national Project HORIZON Destroyer programme.
In 1994 he formed Integrated Systems (now INSYSCO Ltd), a systems engineering practice, which has provided support to various military projects. This has included the containment of the cost by incorporating commercial-off-the-shelf products in military combat systems. He is currently working with the BAE SYSTEMS Type
45 Destroyer Prime Contract Office, Bristol, UK.
He is an active Committee Member of INCOSE UK and a convenor of the Academic Session.
Stephen
Charles Willmott, MA (Physics, Oxon), M
Tech (Comp Sci), CEng, MINCOSE, works for the System Design and Architecture
Group, National Air Traffic Services Ltd (NATS) Steve joined NATS in 1971 and
worked successively on maintaining, developing, specifying and procuring Flight
Data Processing Systems. In 1986 he
ran a group which provided Software Engineering consultancy. He also ran an R&D programme, which, amongst other objectives,
evaluated the application of Systems Engineering to the whole Air Traffic
Management System in the UK. He is
now Manager, Systems Architecture Design & Definition in the Technical
Services Group. He has recently negotiated a contract for the supply of
technical services to MoD to support their provision of Air Traffic Management
services. He is chairman of IEE Professional Group A6 “Systems Integration”.
Mike
Woodhead is Professor of Systems Engineering at
Loughborough University. He is a member of the UK National Advisory Committee
for Systems Engineering and its Working Group on Smart Procurement, and is a UK
representative on the NATO Systems Concepts & Integration Research Strategy
Panel.
Mike leads a team at Loughborough which provides a range of Systems Engineering courses for industry: a 5-year undergraduate MEng course in Systems Engineering, a 2 or 3-year postgraduate MSc programme in Advanced Systems Engineering (with strands in AeroSystems, Weapons Systems and Combat Management Systems), and one-week short courses in Systems Engineering. Industrial customers include BAE SYSTEMS, DERA, MoD, Ford Motor Co, ARM Holdings and Marconi.
He is Director of the Systems Integration Consortium, based at Loughborough University and involving University of Newcastle, University of York and BAE SYSTEMS who fund the five-year rolling research programme.
Currently, Mike is Principal Investigator in an EPSRC IMI research project investigating Lean and Agile Manufacturing in Aerospace SMEs. He was involved in an assessment of aerospace sector competitiveness in the north-west of England and has had involvement with lean and agile developments in the USA including an industry mission for SMEs to California and Arizona.
In his early career, Mike worked for eight years at A V Roe and Hawker Siddeley Aviation, and was involved in MoD and USAF FDL funded projects into the development of active flight control systems for manoeuvre-enhanced and agile combat aircraft. He has extensive experience of working with industry in responding to defence sector requirements through working with project bid teams in facilitating systems engineering approaches to managing the effectiveness of such teams.
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