Tutorial Schedule - ASEC 2024

ASEC 2024 - Tutorials

Understanding the ASEC Signposting system
Each session has been characterised in two dimensions, indicating the type of content and target audience.
Accessibility
This indicates the level of knowledge required by the delegates to fully understand the paper and gain the maximum benefit from its content. There are three levels here:
- Beginner which is aimed at people who are new to the topic and will typically hold the Awareness level of competence in this area;
- Practitioner which is aimed at people who have performed some work in this area and are looking to increase their knowledge and who will typically hold the Supervised Practitioner or Practitioner level of competence;
- Advanced which is aimed at people with extensive experience, who are looking to hone their skills and knowledge in the area and who will typically hold the Expert level of competence.
Application
There are three levels, which are:
- Research aimed at new ideas that have been carried out as part of a research project;
- Case Study that details examples of how Systems Engineering good practice has been applied on real projects, showing real results;
- Good Practice that details how mature Systems Engineering practices are being disseminated, deployed and adopted.

Time	Title	Acc	App	Info
13:30 - 15:00	Democratising Systems Approaches (Part 1)
13:30 - 15:00	Simple ways to think about systems (Part 1)
15:30 - 16:15	Democratising Systems Approaches (Part 2)
15:30 - 16:15	Simple ways to think about systems (Part 2)

Presenter Bio :

Dr Hird has a Engineering Doctorate in Systems Engineering (awarded by the University of Strathclyde). She has a Masters Degree in Product Design Engineering and Post Graduate Qualifications in Operational Research and Academic Practice. Dr Hird is founder and Director of Defankle Innovation Consultancy, launched May 2023 after 5 years running design and manufacturing programmes for Innovate UK KTN. Prior to KTN, Abi lectured in Engineering Management at Strathclyde and was part of the founding team for their Masters course in Systems Engineering Management. At Defankle, Abi routinely runs workshops for industry on a range of innovation-related topics.

Session Description :

Aims and objectives of the tutorial/workshop

Systems Engineering and, more widely, systems approaches can be inaccessible. Many, often including practicing Systems Engineers, fail to grasp the fundamental principles of Systems.

The aim of this workshop is to encourage depth of thought and specific ideas about how meaningful engagement with Systems principles can be secured across a broad base of systems and non-systems professionals.

The objectives to support realising this aim are:

• To test a card-set-based approach that endeavours to make systems approaches accessible.
• To stimulate discussion about how such an approach could be improved.
• To specifically explore how Systems tools and methods can be introduced in a palatable but clear way, such that
further exploration is encouraged.

Overview of the Content

Using a beta-version card set comprising of 20 Systems Principles, 20 high level Systems Methods and 10 example systemtypes, the delegation will be taken through a workshop designed with the aim of encouraging engagement with Systems Approaches across a range of professionals (both "systems engineers" and others). This will be highly interactive and should stimulate new thinking and insights regardless of experience.

Following the card-set workshop delivery delegates will be invited to:

- reflect on the experience (a facilitated session, using structure discussion questions and a variety of methods to encourage interaction).
- based on experience, speculate about the usefulness of the approach beyond the audience
- explore how the approach might be improved and suitable alternative courses of action.
- consider and specify what (if anything) they might change about their own practices as a result of the workshop experience.

ASEC 2024 - Tutorials

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