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Dr.David Corral
Dr.David Corrall, Ph.D., C.Math., FIMA, has worked in the theory and application ofoptical, radar and sonar systems, pattern analysis, machine intelligence, signalprocessing, knowledge-based systems and computer vision systems spanning aperiod of some 35 years as analyst, technical manager and project manager invarious civil and military programmes. He was technical manager of theTechnology Group, Marconi Radar and Control Systems. His current role in BAESYSTEMS is the development of smart decision support for systems.
Issuesof accommodating the needs of Industry and Academia are common to severalprojects with which he has been involved. In particular, he initiated, and wasproject manager of, VIEWS: Visual Inspection and Evaluation of Wide-area Scenes,ESPRIT Project 2156 (1989-1993). He is currently project manager of SIMP: Systems Integrationfor Major Projects (2000-2003), which is funded by EPSRC under its SystemsEngineering and Systems Integration Initiative and driven by Industry needs.
Dr.Galal H Galal
DrGalal H Galal BSc, MSc, PhD, MBCS, is currently a Principal Lecturer in theSchool of Computing Science at Middlesex University with responsibilities forthe strategic development of information systems and software engineeringresearch within the School. Before that, he was a full time faculty member ofthe Department of Information Systems and Computer Science at Brunel Universityfor nearly ten years, where he lectured on a wide variety of SoftwareEngineering and Information Systems topics to undergraduate and postgraduatestudents. He has also published over 30 refereed articles in the areas ofSoftware Engineering, Information Systems and Knowledge-Based Systems.
Hisresearch interests include software and systems engineering methodologies andprocesses, requirements engineering and systems architecting. His formalqualifications include a BSc in Management Sciences (Maxima cum laude) and anMSc in Systems Analysis and Design. He was awarded his Ph.D. in 1996 from BrunelUniversity for research into interpretive approaches to information systemsengineering. Since 1996, Galal has formally taken up studying Architecture (asin buildings) and is currently in the final stage of a Masters degree inAdvanced Architectural Studies at the Bartlett Graduate School, UCL. He is alsoin the third year of a part-time BA degree in Architecture. Before joiningMiddlesex, he was a Senior Research Fellow in software systems engineering,acting as the co-ordinator of RENOIR, the Requirements Engineering Network ofInternational Co-operating Research Groups, an EU funded programme at thedepartment of Computer Science, UCL. He co-organised the latest two ECOOP workshops in the area of Object-Oriented Architectural Evolution.
Prof.Derek K Hitchins
Derekretired from full time academic work in 1994 on medical grounds, and is now apart-time consultant, teacher, visiting professor and international lecturer.Formerly, he held the British Aerospace Chairs in Systems Science and in Commandand Control, Cranfield University at RMCS Shrivenham. Prior to that he held theChair in Engineering Management at City University, London.
Derekstarted as a Cranwell apprentice and retired as a wing commander from the RoyalAir Force after 22 years, to join industry. His first industry appointments wereas the System Design Manager of the Tornado F3 Avionics, Technical Co-ordinatorfor UKAIR CCIS, and UK Technical Director for the NATO Air Command and ControlSystem (ACCS) project in Brussels. He subsequently held posts in two leadingsystems engineering companies as Marketing Director, Business DevelopmentDirector and Technical Director before becoming an academic in 1988.
Hiscurrent research is into system thinking, system requirements, social psychology& anthropology, Egyptology, command & control, system design and worldclass systems engineering. He published his first book, Putting Systems toWork, in 1992, and is presently writing Advanced Systems Thinking,Engineering and Management and "Systems Engineering the Pyramids".
JamesKirby is Director of the SEC-DERAs Systems and Software Engineering Centre.The SEC is an emerging Centre of Excellence in systems and software, workingwith government, industry, commerce and academia to record, enhance and promotebest practice. Its 300 staff provide consultancy and support, together withsoftware and systems projects and training.
Jamesis a graduate of Oxford University and also holds a M.Eng. from LiverpoolUniversity and a Henley Management College MBA. He is a Fellow of theInstitution of Electrical Engineers, a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Societyand is a Board Member of INCOSE UK.
Jameshas spent nearly all his working life in industry. He was the youngest directorat Smiths Industries Aerospace at Cheltenham, having joined as a softwareengineer and rapidly progressed through systems engineering, internationalproject management, engineering management and general management positions. Healso developed major business with Boeing, Seattle. Prior to that, James was a technologist with PlesseyTelecommunications. James joined DERA to grow and diversify the SEC, seeking tocombine industrial and public sector best practice, as DERA transitions throughPublic Private Partnership and beyond.
ProfessorDavid L I Kirkpatrick, MSc (Econ), PhD, FRAeS, is Head of the DefenceEngineering Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University CollegeLondon. He graduated in 1960 with first-class honours in aeronauticalEngineering from the Queen's University of Belfast and, later, obtained an MScin Economics at Birkbeck College and a PhD in aerodynamics from the Universityof Southampton.
Afterindustrial experience at Short Bros & Harland and post-graduate study at theUniversity of Virginia in the United States, he joined the Royal AircraftEstablishment (RAE). He transferred to the UK Ministry of Defence in 1976,undertaking operational analysis for the RAF and project cost forecasting forthe Procurement Executive.
In1985 he was appointed to the British Defence Staff in Washington as AttacheDefence Equipment, Air. He returned to the UK in 1988 to become Head ofAerodynamics Department at RAE. Professor Kirkpatrick was transferred to theProcurement Executive in 1992 as Director, Project Time and Cost Analysis.
In 1995he retired from the Scientific Civil Service and joined the Defence EngineeringGroup (DEG), becoming Head in 1999. He also holds a personal Chair of DefenceAnalysis. Professor Kirkpatrick has published widely on aerodynamics andaircraft design, operational and cost analysis, defence procurement and defenceeconomics and military history.
PeterLister, MA CEng MIEE, is currently President of the UK Chapter of INCOSE. Peter has been involved in Systems Engineering for over 21 years, mainlyin the defence & aerospace sector. Hisconcept of SE has been developed and tested on large-scale development projectssuch as the EH101 helicopter and the RMPA (Nimrod MRA4). From the early days when he was engineering systems (as opposed toSystems Engineering) he became convinced that defined processes for SE areessential for efficient development.
Peter hasrecently joined Siemens Transportation Systems Ltd with a remit to introduce anenterprise wide SE Process for mainline railway signalling projects.
Theworking 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 atTrinity College, Cambridge. He soon moved to accept the challenges of industryworking first for Smith Associates Consulting Systems Engineers Ltd., where hebecame the first Technical Director with responsibilities including developing alaboratory.
In1986 he became the Chief Engineer, Radio Communications at Plessey Research,Roke Manor passing through the post of Research Manager Radio Communications atRoke Manor Research to become Managing Director at Roke Manor Research Ltd andthen Managing Director at Siemens Environmental Systems Ltd working on mobileradio systems.
Hecurrently holds the post of Managing Director of Racal Research Limited wherethe work covers forward looking technology acquisition, COTS use and advancedproduct development for radar, EW, military and civil telecommunications andinternet applications. Followingthe takeover of Racal by Thomson-CSF, Dr Low was appointed to the role ofDirector of Technology of Thomson-CSF Racal PLC, where he is responsible fortheir defence technology acquisition programme and leads a Systems Engineeringprocess improvement initiative. Hehas been involved with systems teams of some 100 people and budgets of £20m.
SpecificInterests are:- Civil and military mobile communication systems; Radar and EWsystems; Image processing systems; Navigation systems; Military application ofCOTS equipment and systems; Systems Engineering process improvement; Costeffective introduction of emerging technologies.
Andywas a member of IEE Professional Group E8 (Radio Systems); Visiting IndustrialProfessor, Department of Electronics and Information Technology, University ofGlamorgan; Past Chairman of Defence & Aerospace Foresight Working Party onSensors and Sensor Systems; Member of UK National Advisory Council on SystemsEngineering; Visiting Professor, Department of Electronics and Computer Science,University of Southampton; and he is an Independent Member of Defence AdvisoryCouncil. Dr Low is a Member of the UK Chapter of INCOSE.
Prof.Philip MPherson, 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, gotfocussed at MIT and developed on nuclear reactor stability and control in theUKEA. He took it into universities(City), hijacking an engineering department to become one of the first toconcentrate on Systems Science and SE, got fixed on complexity and valuemanagement, and retired early to take disguised SE into business, accounting,and back into industry.
PhilipMPherson has degrees from MIT and Oxford University. He is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the IEE, Emeritus Professor ofSystems Engineering and Management at the City University, Freeman of the Cityof London and Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Engineers. He has served on too many committees, and has tried to spread the systemsengineering gospel from London to China, with many stops in between. From1951-59 he was involved, as Lt Cdr, in naval fire control, gyrostabilisation andsubmarine inertial navigation systems.
Then,from 1960 65, Philip was the Head, Dynamics Group, AEEW, working on Nuclearpower reactor dynamics and control. From 1965-87 he moved into SystemsEngineering and Science in Universities as a Fellow, St Johns College,Oxford; Professor of Systems Engineering and Management, City University, andPro-Vice Chancellor in 1981-87.
From1987 Prof MPherson has been the Principal of Systems and ValueConsultancy specialising in the development of Inclusive Value Measurement (IVM)which emerges from SE and cost-effectiveness analysis. This has rolled out toseveral corporate clients for the evaluation and integration of complexprojects, to measure Value for Money and that most important asset of all intellectual capital.
Prof.Peter H Sydenham
PeterSydenham has BE Hons (Adel), ME (Adel), PhD (Warwick) and DSc (Warwick) degreesin electronic engineering and measurement systems. Academic leadership postsinclude Head, School of Electronic Engineering, University of South Australiaand Director/founder of a sequence of research centres in Industrial Large ScaleMetrology, Global Geophysics, Measurement and Instrumentation Systems, Test andEvaluation and Systems Engineering and Evaluation.
Petercurrently shares his living and work time as Professor of Systems Test andEvaluation with the Systems Engineering and Evaluation Centre, University ofSouth Australia and with the Defence Engineering Group, University CollegeLondon where he is assisting develop the MSc in Systems Test and Evaluation. Healso conducts consulting work as the Director of Global Systems EngineeringConsulting Pty Ltd.
Heis the Chairman/Founder of the INCOSE Education Measurement Working Group (EMWG)who are working on Systems Engineering staff formation. He is a member of theINCOSE (central) Board of Directors, and Deputy Chairman-Academic for the 2001Australian INCOSE Annual Symposium. He is convening the Academic Forum of thatSymposium.
Peteris a member of INCOSE UK and of the Systems Engineering Association of Australia(SESA), an affiliate organisation of INCOSE.
Peteris a recipient of the Richard G Cross award of the International Test andEvaluation Association (ITEA) and a member of its Senior Advisory Board.
Currentinterests are Measurement Systems, Systems Test and Evaluation and contributingto structural improvement for Systems Engineering in academia. He is extensively published in both academic and popular lists. He is theEditor-in-Chief of the John Wiley, UK, Measurement Science and Technologybook Series.
MartinTesto joined the Royal Navy as a Weapon Engineer Officer in 1979. Initial training included service on board the Type 42 Destroyer HMSGLASGOW. Other appointmentsincluded: Head of Weapon Engineering department of an OBERON Class submarine;Staff of the Flag Officer Submarines, planning, conducting and analysing weaponsystem development trials; Assistant UPHOLDER Class submarine Through LifeSupport and Weapon System Manager.
In1993 he joined BMT Defence Services Ltd providing support to the tri-nationalProject HORIZON Destroyer programme.
In1994 he formed Integrated Systems (now INSYSCO Ltd), a systems engineeringpractice, which has provided support to various military projects. This has included the containment of the cost by incorporatingcommercial-off-the-shelf products in military combat systems. He is currently working with the BAE SYSTEMS Type
45 Destroyer Prime Contract Office,Bristol, UK.
Heis an active Committee Member of INCOSE UK and a convenor of the AcademicSession.
StephenCharles Willmott, MA (Physics, Oxon), MTech (Comp Sci), CEng, MINCOSE, works for the System Design and ArchitectureGroup, National Air Traffic Services Ltd (NATS) Steve joined NATS in 1971 andworked successively on maintaining, developing, specifying and procuring FlightData Processing Systems. In 1986 heran 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 TrafficManagement System in the UK. He is now Manager, Systems Architecture Design & Definition in the TechnicalServices Group. He has recently negotiated a contract for the supply oftechnical services to MoD to support their provision of Air Traffic Managementservices. He is chairman of IEE Professional Group A6 Systems Integration.
MikeWoodhead is Professor of Systems Engineering atLoughborough University. He is a member of the UK National Advisory Committeefor Systems Engineering and its Working Group on Smart Procurement, and is a UKrepresentative on the NATO Systems Concepts & Integration Research StrategyPanel.
Mike leads a team at Loughboroughwhich provides a range of Systems Engineering courses for industry: a 5-yearundergraduate MEng course in Systems Engineering, a 2 or 3-year postgraduate MScprogramme in Advanced Systems Engineering (with strands in AeroSystems, WeaponsSystems and Combat Management Systems), and one-week short courses in Systems Engineering. Industrialcustomers include BAE SYSTEMS, DERA, MoD, Ford Motor Co, ARM Holdings andMarconi.
He is Director of the SystemsIntegration Consortium, based at Loughborough University and involvingUniversity of Newcastle, University of York and BAE SYSTEMS who fund thefive-year rolling research programme.
Currently, Mike is PrincipalInvestigator in an EPSRC IMI research projectinvestigating Lean and Agile Manufacturing in Aerospace SMEs. He was involved in an assessment of aerospace sector competitiveness inthe north-west of England and has had involvement with lean and agiledevelopments in the USA including an industry mission for SMEs to California andArizona.
In his early career, Mike workedfor eight years at A V Roe and Hawker Siddeley Aviation, and was involved in MoD and USAF FDL funded projects into thedevelopment of active flight control systems for manoeuvre-enhanced and agilecombat aircraft. He has extensive experience of working with industry inresponding to defence sector requirements through working with project bid teamsin facilitating systems engineering approaches to managing the effectiveness ofsuch teams.
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