Systems Engineering Society of Australia

UNISA presents From Complexity to Clarity: The Art of Architecting
2020-10-01 18:00 - 19:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Virtual Event
This event is based in South Australia and organised by the University of South Australia, it will be available to SESA members across the country online.
Join us with Dave Hawken who will be exploring the complexities of designing military systems using the concept of capabilities. A capability is not an individual piece of equipment, like a tank, ship or aircraft, but describes the effect the military seeks to achieve and requires dynamically integrated solutions of those pieces of equipment. This presentation will show how taking an architectural approach is essential to designing capabilities and through military examples will illustrate how this is not as straightforward as it seems!

Dave Hawken is a Business Architect in the UK MOD. After a spell as a university lecturer and software engineer, Dave has been in the UK MOD for the last 29 years. He joined as a mathematician after which he has held roles in quality management, project management and change management. Since 2004, Dave has held systems engineering, requirements and architecture roles. Dave has been an advocative for the introduction of systems engineering as a profession in the MOD and, as a member of INCOSE, helped to develop the systems engineering competency framework and the INCOSE CSEP programme and was the secretary to the INCOSE UK Advisory Board for many years.

Join via Zoom: https://unisa.zoom.us/j/93418596556?pwd=[REDACTED]
Password for Zoom Invite: 725871

National Speakers Event - Autonomous Road Transport – A Systems Approach
2020-08-25 17:30 - 19:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Webinar
The concept of Autonomous Vehicles (AV) and driverless cars is a consistent trending topic that has grown over the past decade. With the advancement in available technology, the concept of AV’s and the road to implementation is accelerating faster than the society and regulations of which is required to introduce it. This immediately becomes a challenge for engineers as several industries struggle to implement the technology in such a complex environment. Over saturation of information is also a noted issue, namely found in science fiction and media which further dilutes the effort and mission.
Some challenges faced ahead involve conformance of standards and regulations mandated by government for the safety and acceptance of the
technology. Systems Integration becomes a key factor in this challenge, as a successful implementation of the technology is subject to several factors,
akin to some of the greatest technological challenges in the past. Some of these issues are best addressed by multiple perspectives, such as government, industry and academia. Thus, the aim of this event (and networking) session is to provide different perspectives of the topic from systems-of-systems view, considering government and policy, industry/suppliers and as well as research and advisory. The intent is to give audiences an opportunity to understand the type of career paths that engineers can take, ranging from becoming policy makers to technical system designers or integrators.

Speaker: John Wall
Program Manager, Future Vehicles and Technology | Austroads
John Wall is recognised as one of Australia’s leading specialists in the application of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) for road safety. He has over 25 years of experience in the development of road safety strategies and countermeasures and holds tertiary qualifications in agricultural science, education and public health.
John is currently the Program Manager for Future Vehicles and Technology with Austroads, the peak organisation of Australasian road transport and traffic agencies. The program was established in July 2019 and builds on the work previously conducted by Austroads through its Connected and Automated Vehicle Program. The program works across several themes including connected and automated mobility, physical and digital infrastructure and agency capability.
His new team’s vision is that “All employees of our members have an understanding of how connected, automated and electric vehicles can be used to improve the capacity of their organisation to deliver services that improve the lives of the communities they serve”.
In June 2020, Austroads released their landmark report forecasting the capabilities of a Future Vehicle in the year 2030. The report is being used by Austroads to develop products and services that transport agencies can use to support the operation of automated, connected and low emission vehicles into the future.
John is looking forward to discussing his thoughts around future vehicles and how they can be leveraged to provide a safer, more efficient, sustainable and equitable road transport system.

Speaker: Greg Giraud
Managing Director | EasyMile Australia & NZ
Greg Giraud is EasyMile’s Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand. EasyMile is a pioneer in autonomous vehicle technology and smart mobility solutions. Greg is a highly experienced and well-regarded business leader with strong expertise in mobility and urban transport. A former General Manager for Hertz APAC’s Car Share Operations, Greg has been involved as a new mobility subject matter expert in various global strategic business reviews and projects all across Australia. He has captured a wealth of experience in government relations, having worked extensively with local government areas and influenced outcomes of car sharing policies and regulations. Greg is now leading EasyMile’s efforts to bring the ANZ region on board the driverless revolution and write a page of autonomous vehicle history. Greg is proud to have never owned a car and intends to keep it that way.
Greg will explore EasyMile’s journey as a leading autonomous vehicle solutions provider with a focus on AI and deep learning from a safety perspective.

Speaker: Miranda Blogg
Director | Cooperative and Automated Vehicle Initiative (CAVI)
Dr Miranda Blogg is the Director of the Cooperative and Automated Vehicle Initiative at the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads. Miranda has worked for the department for the last 5 years, and prior to, she was a consultant working both in Australia and the United States. Miranda is a registered civil engineer with a PhD in traffic engineering who has specialised in traffic engineering, transport planning and research for over 20 years.
Miranda will present on the initiative, with a focus on vehicle connectivity and information security.

Speaker: Jon Sciortino
Senior Systems Engineer | Nova Systems
Jon Sciortino is an autonomous operations expert with almost 3 decades experience in the delivery and assessment of high-level capability assurance, risk management, requirements planning, system safety and test and evaluation expertise. Jon works internationally within both commercial and Defence sectors to assist clients deal with complex projects that solve the technologically challenging problems that really matter.
Highly sought after by organisations wanting to access his expertise and insight, Jon is often engaged to lead teams through the introduction of autonomous operations, systems engineering, integration and requirements management, program analysis, harnessing innovation opportunities and the development of comprehensive test and evaluation methodologies across the business.
Amongst a host of academic achievements, Jon holds degree qualifications in electrical engineering and business administration, is a Member of Engineers Australia and lives in Perth, Western Australia.
Jon will present on lessons learned from mining vehicle autonomy, how systems engineering matters, cross-sector collaboration, and safety, certification and governance.

Host: Rita Excell
Executive Director | Australia and New Zealand Driverless Vehicle Initiative (ADVI)
Rita is the Executive Director of the Australia and New Zealand Driverless Vehicle Initiative (ADVI) Centre of Excellence and is responsible for delivering ADVI’s contribution to the safe and successful introduction of driverless vehicle technologies into Australia.
Her prior roles include Regional Manager of Australian Road Research Board’s South Australian office. Rita managed key strategic policy projects for State Road Authorities and organisations that manage public and private road infrastructure.
Rita is a qualified Civil Engineer with over 20 years’ experience, which has included roles in Local Government and more than 13 years with RAA – where she worked on strategic transport planning, road safety and advocacy. She is currently the Vice President of the IPWEA Australasia board, where she also chairs the Audit and Risk Committee. Currently, Rita is the Transport Expert for the Port Adelaide Enfield Council Assessment Panel, as well as a member of the New South Wales and South Australian Connected and Automated Vehicle Industry Reference Groups.

An Opportunity to hear from Leaders in your Field
2020-07-27 12:00 - 13:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Webinar
Join us for a webinar on Monday the 27th of July, to hear from two experts from the fields of Transport and Systems Engineering.
Respecify: writing better requirements
Requirements authoring is a difficult and time-consuming task that requires the right combination of technical, commercial, risk management and writing skills. Most specifications are written free-form in a word processor because this is easy and familiar to the authors. The authors are usually domain experts rather that requirements authoring experts. The result is that most specifications we see are of poor quality. Many of our engagements are to fix, or re-specify, the requirements written by others. Over the years, we have found that there are patterns or templates that help structure thinking when writing requirements. We have developed Respecify, a web-based-requirement authoring tool that uses constrained English to guide the author through the requirements writing process. Respecify helps ensure that all terms used in the specification are defined and consistently used; it extracts the list of all referenced documents; and it automatically derives the system hierarchy, functions, and interfaces making requirements defects more apparent. This presentation will be a demonstration of Respecify.
Using Systems Engineering to manage complexity – Amsterdam Metro case study
The Amsterdam Metro is a rapid transit system serving Amsterdam, Netherlands and extending to the surrounding municipalities of Diemen and Ouder-Amstel. The metro system consists of five routes and serves 39 stations, with a total length of 42.7 kilometres. In 2002 the construction of the Noord/Zuidlijn (North–South line) was started. The new metro line is the first to serve the Amsterdam North district, via a tunnel under the IJ. From there, it runs via Amsterdam Centraal to Amsterdam Zuid, which is planned to become the second biggest transport hub in the city, after Amsterdam Centraal. The line includes a mixture of bored tunnels and immersed tunnels under the IJ. The new North-South line is 9 kilometres km in length with 7 kilometres underground in a bore tunnel with seven new stations. The scope included the introduction of a new Traffic Management System, Data network and central control systems for stations, which was also integrated into the existing brownfield. The project has a rocky road to implementation. During the integration phase, the project relied heavily on the systems engineering and integration process in order to commission and handover the systems into operations and maintenance, which is the subject of this presentation. Thijs van Steen will talk about the challenges faced in implementing systems engineering, lessons learnt as well as the legacy the project left the operator and maintainers.
Guest Speakers

Stephen Boyd
Managing Director | Ricardo Rail Australia
Stephen is the Managing Director of Ricardo Rail Australia. He has over 20 years’ design, manufacturing, commissioning and maintenance experience across the largest rail projects. He is Managing Director of Ricardo Rail Australia & NZ and runs a team of over 115 technical staff. Over the past few years Stephen has authored many requirements for the major rolling stock, metro and light rail projects in Australia and NZ. Stephen is currently working on specifications for the Sydney Metro West project.

Thijs van Steen
Director of Systems Integrator, Digital Systems Program | Transport for NSW

Thijs van Steen is the Director of Systems Integrator, Digital Systems Program, TfNSW. He has recently moved to Sydney and is now working on the Digital Systems Program as the Director of Systems Integration. Prior to this was responsible for Systems Integration in the new Noord/Zuidlijn (North–South line) in Amsterdam as part of Metro en Tram, gemeente Amsterdam.
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SESA Virtual Systems Forums
2020-06-23 08:00 - 2020-07-02 19:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Virtual Event
The Systems Engineering Society of Australia (SESA) will be hosting a series of short Virtual Systems Forums (VSFs) from 23rd of June – 2nd of July, to be held mid-week (Tuesday – Thursday) in the mornings (8:00 – 9:00 AEST), lunch-times (12:00 to 13:30 AEST) and in the evenings (18:00pm to 19:00 AEST) over two weeks, using Zoom.
Morning sessions will start at 08:00 am AEST, will be round-table discussion and structured ideas exchange. Each participant will be given equal time to share their ideas on a different topic each session.
(Guidelines for morning round table sessions: RoundTable Guidelines )
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Lunch-time sessions will start at 12:00 noon AEST, run for 1.5 hours and comprise up to four, short presentations (15 mins each) followed by an open Q&A discussion forum.
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Evening sessions will start at 06:00 pm AEST and will be panel discussion forums focused on particular topics and themes towards the sharing of understanding of systems concepts, and in their application in helping deal with complex contemporary and potential future challenges.
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These VSFs are being facilitated by SESA volunteers, and are FREE of charge. You will receive the relevant zoom links once you have registered.
SESA will provide a Certificate of Attendance for the sessions you attend as a record for your CPD Log.

The program is as follows:

Morning

Lunch Time

Evening:

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Options to join Zoom meetings:
Option 1: Join without Zoom Account > Must download Zoom App (free download)
or
Option 2: Join without Zoom App through Web Client (Chrome, Safari etc.) > Must have Zoom Account (free sign up)

Please come along and join us at one or all of these SESA VSFs to find out more about the systems concepts, or to contribute to advancing the SEBoK.
Please do not forget to BYO lunch/dinner/drink with you!

This Century – Leading (and Engineering) Care - Webinar
2020-05-26 17:30 - 19:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Webinar
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When care is limited, leadership is a license to kill. Engineers know this in all we plan, design, build and maintain. We manage and lead people amid complexity to work together artfully to make things happen. We integrate multiple disciplines into a coherent whole. We make trade-offs across outcomes and resources. We evolve designs and build sustainable solutions. We are quiet achievers in a noisy world.
How then can we help people think and act differently through compounding crises knowing we also need to prepare for the next? How much of the way we think and act is transferable to the social context? Might we elevate our profession to help other managers and leaders shape society with the same care we display to our engineering? It’s a question for our time. If we stay quietly achieving while a world ‘snaps-back’, might our legacy contribution be a missed opportunity?
Dr Richard Hodge will explore these questions during his presentation to draw propositions to open discussion in the second half of proceedings.
Speaker: Dr Richard Hodge

Director, Dr Richard Hodge.com Pty Ltd | This Century Leadership
Richard is an expert in viable system design with a focus on sustainability. He has extensive experience across public, private and academic sectors as a consultant, general manager and company director. Richard advances new thinking for complex enterprises. He works at the enterprise, portfolio and program levels to design and deliver systemic interventions to improve outcome delivery, collaboration and interdependence across programs and their related work domains. Richard holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Systems Approaches to Strategy & Execution (UniSA), a Graduate Diploma in Strategic Studies (ANU) and a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics & Linguistics (Adel). He is a member of SESA, a member of the INCOSE Social Systems Working Group, and a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Please note: live streams will commence at 5.30pm AEST, 5.00pm ACST and 3.30pm AWST.

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Date

26 / 05 / 2020 – 05:30 pm to 07:00 pm (AEST)

Registration Closes
26 / 05 / 2020 02:00 pm

Venue
Webinar Only

Webinar Only

Cost

Registration

EA Member Rate: $0.00 ($0.00 excl. GST)
Student Member Rate: $0.00 ($0.00 excl. GST)
Non-Member Rate: $30.00 ($27.27 excl. GST)

Key Speaker(s)
Dr Richard Hodge

Host(s)
Engineers Australia

Event Contact

Contact: Engineers Australia Member Services
Phone: 1300 653 113
Email: memberservices@engineersaustralia.org.au

Maximum CPD Hours
1.5

Attachments

This Century – leading and engineering care.pdf
(1.41 MB)

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National Speaker Program
2019-11-26 17:30 - 20:30 UTC
Speaker: Simon Vaux, Chris Rolinson & Herman van der Merwe
Topic: Systems Engineering in a Digital World, A state of Play
Date: Tuesday, 26 November 2019
Time: 5:30 for 6pm Start (AEDT)
Location: Engineers Australia, 8 Thomas Street, Chatswood
LIVE STREAMS
Brisbane – 4:30pm for a 5pm start Engineering House, 447 Upper Edward Street Brisbane
Melbourne – 5:30pm for a 6pm start Engineers Australia, Level 31, 600 Bourke Street, Melbourne
Canberra – 5:30pm for 6pm start Engineers Australia, 11 National Circuit, Barton
Adelaide – 5:00pm for 5:30pm start Engineers Australia, 108 King William Street, Adelaide
COST
Members: Complimentary
Non-members: $30.00
Previous presentations are available on our YouTube Channel
