Mr Mike Bathe

Head of Operational Analysis, Modelling and Simulation Group
Location: Shrivenham
E: m.r.bathe@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 1793 785285
Informatics and Systems Engineering


Current activities

Currently the Head of the Operational Analysis, Modelling and Simulation Group within the Informatics and  Systems Engineering Department at Cranfield University’s Shrivenham Campus. Research interests are in the defence applications of:

• Simulation

• Combat modelling

• Logistics modelling

• Decision analysis

Clients

Mike has done work with and for many different areas of the Ministry of Defence and defence industry over the past 30 years. He has also worked for a number of overseas defence departments.

Background

  • A mathematics graduate from the University of Reading with a postgraduate degree in operational research (OR) from the University of Sussex
  • Prior to joining the Royal Military College of Science as a lecturer in 1976, spent 7 years working in the Applied Statistics Department at the University of Reading where he was particularly involved in the application of OR in the health services
  • In 1983/84 spent a year working as a British exchange scientist with the US Department of Defence at White Sands Missile Range, before returning to the UK and joining the staff of Cranfield University at Shrivenham.

Mike is a Fellow and past member of the Council of the Operational Research Society and was until 2006 an independent member of the Defence Scientific Advisory Council’s Operational Analysis Board and their Expert Advisory Group on Network Enabled Capability.

Selected publications

  • R W Shephard, D A Hartley, P J Haysman, L Thorpe and M R Bathe, “Applied Operations Research”. Examples from Defense Assessment, Plenum publishing corporation. (1988)
  • M R Bathe, Paper presented at the EURO XI meeting in Aachen in July, “A state space based many-on-many model of combat”, 26 p, (1991)
  • M R Bathe & K Wand, '95 TIMS Conference, Singapore. “The prediction of spares requirements for helicopter engines”, 10 p, (June 1995)
  • M R Bathe, J D Smith; “Description of the Strategy to Task Technique and Example Applications”, Journal of Battlefield Technology, March 2002, Vol 5, pp32-36, ISSN 1440-5113