Derek Hitchins
Derek K. Hitchins (born 1935) is a British
Biography
Hitchins joined the Royal Air Force in 1952 as an apprentice and retired as a wing commander in 1973 to join industry. From 1975 to 1976 he worked as the system design manager of the Tornado ADV aviation company and technical coordinator for UKAIR CCIS. From 1975 to 1979 he was head of Integrated sciences in a grammar school, teaching physics, integrated science, mathematics, electronics, biology and astronomy to advanced level, with music, gymnastics and athletics as additional subjects.
In 1980 he returned to industry and held posts at two leading systems engineering companies as Marketing Director, Business Development Director and Technical Director. He also worked as UK Technical Director for the NATO Air Command and Control System (ACCS) project in Brussels before becoming an academic in 1988.[1]
In 1988 he became professor in Engineering Management at
He was the inaugural president of the UK chapter of
Work
His current research is into system thinking, system requirements, social psychology & anthropology, Egyptology, command & control, system design and world-class systems engineering.
Publications
Hitchins wrote several books and article.[2] A selection:
- 1990. Conceiving Systems. Thesis (Ph.D.) City University, 1990.
- 1992. Draft Guide to the Practice of System Engineering. With John C. Boarder and Patrick D. R. Moore. Institution of Electrical Engineers.
- 1993. Putting Systems to Work,
- 2000. Getting to Grips with Complexity or... A Theory of Everything Else...
- 2003, Advanced Systems Thinking, Engineering and Management, Norwood MA: Artech House.
- 2003. The Pyramid Builder's Handbook
- 2003. The Secret Diaries of Hemiunu
- 2007. Systems Engineering: A 21st Century Systems Methodology.
Articles, a selection:
- 2003, Systems Methodology, paper.
- 2003, What’s in a System-of-Systems?, paper.
References
- ^ Derek Hitchins, INCOSE website, retrieved Sept. 2007
- ^ For an overview, see Hitchins CV Archived 2007-08-09 at the Wayback Machine, Feb 2005.
External links
- Hitchins homepage.
- Derek Hitchins, INCOSE 2007.
- Hitchins CV, Feb 2005.