SYSTEMS ENGINEERING - Key Persons
Andrew is the Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor in Applied Systems Engineering at Loughborough University.
From 1975 he specialised in mathematics & particle physics at Durham and Manchester Universities, winning research prizes, publishing in leading journals and visiting CERN. In 1981 he joined the UK Nuclear Power industry where he practiced Systems Engineering in a multi-disciplinary design team for Gas Cooled Reactors, advancing the field of nuclear plant simulation & modeling significantly.
He joined what was then British Aerospace in 1987 as a Systems Engineer specialising in safety critical computer systems and for 28 years worked in a series of senior applied and research Engineering roles, designing the avionic systems for the Eurofighter Typhoon and as Chief Engineer for the Hawk fast jet aircraft designing new variants for the UK, Indian, South African and Bahrain Governments. In particular he designed the revolutionary Hawk T2 helping to make Hawk the most successful military training aircraft ever in terms of worldwide sales.
He led the global development of the Systems Engineering discipline across BAE SYSTEMS and led industry-academic partnerships in Systems Engineering with many universities. He was awarded Fellowship of the Institute of Engineering & Technology in 2009 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2010.
In his spare time his interest in F1 motor racing has led him to design many commercially successful computer games and to hold patents in real-virtual gaming technologies. He was listed in Who's Who from 2012.
Job Titles:
- Chairman in Systems Engineering / Loughborough University