Brian has teaching responsibilities for Innovation and Creativity, Product Development processes and the Realisation of product solutions.
Development of up-to-date material to stimulate system thinking, marking assignments. mentoring if required and marking
Outside of AAPS Brian leads Vertically Integrated Projects as part of curriculum transformation and projects in engineering management and support Practice Track projects for Engineering management courses.
Brian is chartered engineer, chartered quality profession gaining Fellow level recognition in both the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (I Mech Eng) and Chartered Quality Institute (CQI), a certified 6-Sigma Black Belt and certified Master Practitioner at individual and business levels in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP).
Brian worked at Ford Motor Company for 38 years in various activities across the company’s organisations. This includes lead responsibilities in all aspects of product design and verification, particularly for propulsion systems and their integration into vehicles. Brian led powertrain technology integration, which developed into a leadership role envisioning, leading & delivering quality and systems engineering training and the successful embodiment of the process into the corporate product design and development processes. Brian had pivotal roles in personnel development including mentoring, coaching and general career development within Ford.
He has written various SAE papers on the system engineering and has had pivotal roles in mentoring, coaching and leading personnel development.
It’s an opportunity to share my years of experience running multicultural transdisciplinary automotive commercial teams and my knowledge of integrating technology into existing and new forms of vehicles and mobility.
I believe that the AAPS program will not only create research that will support society’s ability to deliver low carbon propulsion mobility into the future but will also create well educated potential leaders to continue to develop themselves and lead new and exciting projects. It is a privilege to be part of the organisation to lead some of the teaching and encourage students to develop their full potential.
Worked in multiple positions within Ford Motor Company
These include: engine design / development, manufacturing both vehicle and engine, senior lead in quality process both in manufacturing and design (statistical application lead), education lead in the development of global training in quality including interpersonal skills, technology integration manager, manager lead developer and trainer in system engineering, manager lead in the development of innovation and creativity.
Developed and launched, with a global team, an innovation framework and global training including team and cognitive skills to develop new / combinations of technologies, connections between the customer. Prototype launch in Europe during which I develop and registered two patents related to customer / vehicle / technology interfaces. The training including inputs and thoughts from IDEO and Google.
The strategy and outcome
With the growing integration of technology and the concerns that without right first time right thinking the customers could incur high levels of quality issues. As a result, I led the development, with the University of Bradford and a team of consultants, a training intervention with the core based on systems engineering. The key focus was on the identification, characterisation and management of interfaces, in design and all other aspects of the product and business processes.
The training was successfully delivered to engineering grades up to vice president levels globally.
Led a multidisciplinary team of product and manufacturing engineers to manage all aspects of quality planning and delivery. During this time launched with the lowest quality issues 3 main global products.
Responsible for the development of new processes across all product teams which included training interventions.
Development of up-to-date material to stimulate system thinking, marking assignments. mentoring if required and marking
Outside of AAPS I lead Vertically Integrated Projects as part of curriculum transformation and projects in engineering management and support Practice Track projects for Engineering management courses.
My keen interest is understanding the relationship between creativity / innovation and cognitive processes.
The development of system thinking / design to become part of every-day thinking.
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