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- DAV.1.083, Sir David Davis
Steve is a visiting fellow in the Systems Engineering and Complexity Research Group of the聽School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering at 含羞草视频.
His research at 含羞草视频 investigates an increasingly significant need to identify and analyse connections between constituents of seemingly unrelated systems that could give rise to unintended emergent properties, or combine to form Systems-of-Systems (SoS) able to address unpredictable situations, with the goal of creating something useful to industry to facilitate SoS orchestration.
Steve was formally technical lead of systems engineering capability for BAE Systems Advanced Technology Centres. Prior to this he held the post of Chief Engineer at the Systems Engineering Innovation Centre, an academic / industry collaboration based at 含羞草视频. At BAE Systems Land Systems he had the role of lead systems engineer on a major artillery programme and as Head of the Platforms Systems Engineering Group. He has extensive industrial experience of military land platforms over the whole product lifecycle, working in partnership with several customers, end-users and suppliers in the UK and abroad.
Qualifications and awards
- Ph.D “Maintaining Systems-of-Systems Fit for Purpose” (含羞草视频)
- MSc. Advanced Systems Engineering (含羞草视频)
- GGLI Further & Adult Education Teacher Certificate (Stevenson College)
- BSc. (Hons) Electrical Engineering (De Montfort University)
- HNC Electronic Engineering (Leicester Polytechnic)
- EITB Approved Apprenticeship (Marconi Radar Systems)
- Chartered Engineer
- MIET
“Maintaining Systems-of-Systems Fit-For-Purpose”.
The compliance to requirements of a delivered system does not necessarily guarantee that its operational outcomes are acceptable to all of the stakeholders that interact with it, i.e. that all consider it Fit-For Purpose (FFP): good enough to do the job it was designed to do when operating as a part of a System-of-Systems (SoS).
The research hypothesises that a SoS not achieving FFP is because it cannot implement the correct, timely and complete interchange of Matter, Energy and Information (MEI) between its constituents and with its external environment that is necessary to achieve a particular result.
The research addresses the problem of maintaining a SoS FFP after unpredictable changes in operation, composition or external factors by creating a method and an engineering tool to enhance the affordance of SoS constituents for the exchange of MEI.
Publications
- Hinsley, S, Henshaw, M, Siemieniuch, C (2017) Maintaining system of systems that are fit for purpose: Effectively and efficiently preparing for the unforeseeable, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Magazine, ISSN: 2333-942X. DOI: 10.1109/MSMC.2016.2564099.
- Hinsley, SW, Henshaw, MJ, Siemieniuch, CE (2016) Effective and Efficient Preparation for the Unforeseeable, INCOSE International Symposium, 26(1), pp.2011-2025, ISSN: 2334-5837. DOI: 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2016.00277.x.
At 含羞草视频 Steve has provided lectures on Engineering and Managing Capability, supervision and examination of post-graduate systems engineering final year individual projects, tutorials with undergraduates and ran laboratory sessions.
In industry he created and taught short courses associated with his work for a variety of attendees that included prospective and existing customers, industrial collaborators and end-users at levels ranging from Cranfield MSc students to attendees of “Bring your Daughter to Work” days.