Mr Richard Adcock
Head of Systems Engineering DA-CMT
Location: Shrivenham
E: r.d.adcock@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 1793 785840
Informatics and Systems Engineering
Current activities
Rick has 20 years experience in defence, working in industry, consultancy and academia. He joined Cranfield University at the Defence Academy of the UK in 2000 to help set up Systems Engineering courses to support MoD acquisition reforms.
Rick is current Head of the Centre for Systems Engineering, at the Defence Academy College of Management and Technology (DA-CMT). He chairs a Masters course in Systems Engineering for Defence Capability, and is responsible for a range of other courses covering Awareness through to Practitioner and Expert level competencies in Systems Engineering.
Rick has done research and published on Systems Engineering competencies, Network Enabled Capability (NEC), Enterprise Architecting and Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE). He is currently engaged in doctoral research on Systems Engineering Competencies and Education and is working closely with the UK MoD Systems Engineering development partner on Systems Engineering competencies and skill assessment for the UK MoD Engineering Strategy.
Rick has been a member of INCOSE for over 15 years. He is a director of INCOSE UK and INCOSE Associate Director for education. He is a lead author on the BKCASE Project (www.BKCASE.org), which is creating a Body of Knowledge (and associate Reference master Curriculum) for Systems Engineering.
Background
- 20 years in defence, working in industry, consultancy and education
- Worked as a Principle Systems Engineering for BAe Systems and MBDA
- Responsible for the development of Systems Engineering process and the evaluation and implementation of Systems Engineering Tools
- Was involved in the creation of the Systems Engineering for Defence MSc at DCMT whilst still working at BAe.
Qualifications and Memberships
- BSc (Hons) Mathematics
- MSc (Distinction) Information Systems
- International Councils for Systems Engineering (INCOSE)
- UK Board member and Events Chair
- Co-chair of INCOSE 2006 and 2010 European Symposium and the 2008 INCOSE International Symposium.
Selected publications
- Fundamentals of Systems Engineering, INCOSE Spring Conference 2000
- NATO Conference on Network Centric Operation, Technical Evaluation Report 2003
- A framework for Requirements Engineering, RMCS SED Conference 2004
- Framework for Tailoring Systems Engineering Lifecycle Processes, INCOSE International Conference 2005
- Systems Engineering Education, Conference on Systems Engineering Research 2006
- Graduate Software Engineering Reference Curriculum GSWE2009 (co author), 2009
- Systems Engineering Lifecycle Models, INCOSE Autumn Assembly 2009
- Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge, Draft version 0.25 (co author), 2010
- Graduate Reference Curriculum Architecture for Systems Engineering, Draft version 0.25 (co author), 2010
- Research Issues arising from Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge, Conference on Systems Engineering Research 2011
