Richard D. Adcock, Cranfield University (UK)
Rick is a Senior Lecturer in Systems Engineering at Cranfield Defence and Security. He is currently INCOSE Associate Director for Education
Editor in Chief of the BKCASE project, responsible for appointment of editors and overall quality of BKCASE products
The BKCASE editorial board is made up of editors appointed for their expertise in Systems Engineering and their experience in authoring and editing technical publications.
The current editors are listed below against the BKCASE product for which they have the primary responsibility. If you have questions or comments about aspects of the BCKASE project the assigned editor should be your first port of call.
Editors are organized into teams which work together with selected authors and reviewers and the SE community to ensure sustainment and evolution of the BKCASE products. Editorial teams are organized around the 7 SEBoK Parts, as shown below. Senior editors have been identified for some part teams to provide leadership and coordination within the team if needed.
In addition, a small number of cross cutting teams provide additional focus on topics relevant to BKCASE. The current cross cutting editorial teams are:
David H. Olwell, Naval Postgraduate School (USA) Dr. Olwell is Professor and immediate past chair of the Department of Systems Engineering at the Naval Postgraduate School. He is the elected Chair of the NPS Faculty. He is a Fellow of the American Council on Education, a WASC evaluator, an ABET program evaluator, and a member of the Engineering Accreditation Commission.Senior Editor for the Graduate Reference Curriculum for Systems Engineering (GRCSE). View BKCASE Profile |
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Timothy Ferris, University of South Australia (Australia), timothy.ferris@unisa.edu.au Member of GRCSE team |
Ariela Sofer, George Mason University (USA), asofer@gmu.edu Responsible for Part 1 Member of Integration team |
Janet Singer Senior Editor Part 2 Responsible for Systems Fundamental knowledge area (KA) |
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Cihan Dagli, Missouri University of Science & Technology (USA), dagli@mst.edu Dr. Dagli is a Professor of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, and Affiliated Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. Responsible for Systems Approach KA Member of Integration team View BKCASE Profile |
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Dov Dori, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) and Technion Israel Institute of Technology (Israel) dori@mit.edu
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Duane Hybertson, MITRE (USA)
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Mike Yearworth, University of Bristol (UK)
Responsible for Systems Science KA |
Garry Roedler, Lockheed Martin (USA), garry.j.roedler@lmco.com Senior Editor Part 3 Responsible for the Concept Definition and System Definition KA |
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Barry Boehm, University of Southern California (USA), boehm@usc.edu Responsible for Life Cycle Models KA |
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Kevin Forsberg, OGR Systems (TBC)Responsible for Life Cycle Models KA |
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Gregory Parnell, University of Arkansas, (USA), gparnell@uark.edu Responsible for Systems Engineering Management KA Member of Model Base SE team |
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TBC System Deployment and Use | |
TBC Product and Service Lifecycle Management KA | |
Ricardo Valerdi, University of Arizona (USA), rvalerdi@email.arizona.edu Responsible for the System Realization KA |
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Ken Zemrowski, TASC (USA), kenneth.zemrowski@incose.org Ken Zemrowski is a TASC Technical Fellow and Chief Engineer for an Federal Aviation Administration systems engineering contract. Ken has supported the FAA since 1990, supporting systems engineering, communications engineering, and program planning. Ken serves as the INCOSE assistant director for standards initiatives.Responsible for Systems Engineering Standards KA.Member of Integration team View BKCASE Profile |
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Judith Dahmann, MITRE Corporation (USA), jdahmann@mitre.org Dr. Dahmann is a principal senior systems engineer in the MITRE Corporation Systems Engineering Technical CenterSenior Editor Part 4. Responsible for Systems of Systems (SoS) KA. View BKCASE Profile |
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Michael Henshaw, Loughborough University (UK),M.J.d.Henshaw@lboro.ac.uk Dr. Henshaw is Professor of Systems Engineering; he is head of the Systems Division and leads the Engineering Systems of Systems (EsoS) Research Group.Responsible for Product Systems Engineering, Enterprise Systems Engineering, and Systems of Systems (SoS) in Part 4: Applications of Systems Engineering with Judith Dahmann. View BKCASE Profile |
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James Martin, The Aerospace Corporationjames.martin@incose.org Responsible for the Enterprise Systems Engineering KA. |
Tim Ferris, Cranfield University (UK)
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Emma Sparks, Cranfield University (UK) Dr. Emma Sparks is the Head of the Centre for Systems Engineering at Cranfield Defence and Security, Shrivenham. Emma is a Systems Engineer specialising in human systems, systems thinking, enterprise architecture and Human Factors Integration. Responsible for the Enabling Individuals KA Member of Integration team View BKCASE Profile |
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Rick Hefner, California Institute of Technology (USA) Rick Hefner, PhD, is a Program Director for Technology and Management Education at CalTech.He specializes in systems development and maintenance; project management; Lean Six Sigma; process improvement, technology transfer; and risk management. View BKCASE Profile |
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Bernardo Delicado, MBDA /INCOSE (Spain) Bernardo Delicado has been a professional systems engineer for 25 years in the aerospace sector. View BKCASE profile |
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Alice Squires, Washington State University (USA), alice.squires@wsu.edu Responsible for SE and Project Management. SE and Engineering Management. Senior Editor Integration View BKCASE Profile |
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Paul Phister, MANIAC Consulting (USA) Dr. Phister spent 25 years in the military (Lt Col, retired) where he worked primarily in space systems development and operations. Dr. Phister is an internationally recognized subject matter expert in information technologies, Command and Control (C2), net-centric and space operations Responsible for SE and Software Engineering View Profile |
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TBC Responsible for Specialist Disciplines |
Dick Fairley, Software & Systems Engineering Associates
Over the life of the SEBoK Dr. Fairley made significant contributions to the SE and Specialty Engineering, SE and Project Management, and SE and Software Engineering knowledge areas within the Related Disciplines section; the Enabling Teams knowledge area within the Enabling Systems Engineering section; and edited several glossary terms and primary references found in the SEBoK related to these topics. |
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