Prof. Derek Hitchins
Past President, UK Chapter
Background
- Qualifications: MSc PhD FIEE FRAeS FIMgt
- RAF to wing commander
- Aerospace industry to marketing and technical director
- Academia to professor of engineering management, command and control and systems science
Job
Lecturing, teaching and consulting in systems engineering,systems science, command and control, management, etc., withinaerospace and the police, and developing NVQ Scottish VQ inSystems Engineering
Systems Engineering Interests
- To establish systems engineering as the dominant paradigm for managing complexity in industry
- To propagate a multi-layer view of systems engineering comprising product, project, business, industry and socio-economic levels
- So to widen interest in and practice of systems engineering to the benefit of UK industry
INCOSE Goals
- To contribute to the growth, standards and standing of INCOSE in the UK and of INCOSE Chapters in Europe
- To counterbalance reductionist/systematic influences
- To prove and promote True Systems Engineering as the route to simultaneous effectiveness, efficiency and quality
How to make contact
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+44(0)1722 337554 |
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+44(0)1722 337554 |
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www.hitchins.net
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Last Updated: 11 July, 2004