Professor Stephen Cook

Professor Stephen Cook is the Director of the Defence and Systems Institute and the Director to the Centre of Expertise in Systems Integration. He has had a varied career that commenced with over ten years’ engineering experience in the telecommunications and aerospace industry after which he joined the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) rising to Research Leader Military Information Networks in 1994. Since 1997 he has been seconded to the University of South Australia as the foundation DSTO Professor of Systems Engineering. He has a wide span of research interests including systems modelling, systems engineering of C2 systems, systems approaches for defence capability development, acquisition modernisation, and theoretical frameworks to support the coherent teaching of systems engineering. He has contributed to three books and has published over a hundred refereed journal and conference papers. Prof Cook is a Past President of the Systems Engineering Society of Australia. Prof Cook is particularly interested in improving systems engineering practice in both supplier and acquirer organisations through both technical and enterprise-improvement consultancies.

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Centre of Excellence in Defence and Industry Systems Capability

Defence and Systems Institute

• Contemporary systems (engineering) methodologies
• Systems integration
• Systems design - architectural and detailed design

Fellow, Institution of Engineers, Australia

Fellow, Institution of Engineering and Technology (UK)

Past President, Systems Engineering Society of Australia

Member, International Council on Systems Engineering

Bachelor of Technology (Electronic Eng); BTech, South Australian Institute of Technology, 1978.

Master of Science (Programmable Electronics); MSc, University of Kent at Canterbury, 1981.

Graduate Diploma (Electronic Systems); GradDip, University of South Australia, 1991.

Doctor of Philosophy (Measurement and Instrumentation); PhD, City University, London, 1991.

• Systems engineering for defence strategic planning, capability engineering, and systems acquisition.
• Civil aviation safety modelling.
• Tailoring systems engineering to new application areas.
• Requirements engineering.
• High-quality audio engineering.

Prof Cook has published over 100 refereed articles. Some representative publications appear below (See www.unisa.edu.au/seec/ for copies of publications from the last seven years):

Johnson E.E., Desourdis R.I., Earle G.D., Cook S.C., Ostergaard J.C., Advanced High Frequency Radio Communications, Artec House, Boston 1997, ISBN 0-89006-815-1.

Gossink D.E. and Cook S.C. "A Novel Synchronisation Scheme for Spread-Spectrum Communications" in Digital Signal Processing for Communications, T. Wysocki, H. Razavi, and B Honary (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 0-7923-9932-3, 1997 Boston, pp 255-262.

Jagath Kamura K. D. R. and Cook S.C. "Passive Estimation of Bit Error Probability in Communication Systems Employing Error-Control Coding", JEEEA, Volume 18, No 2, pp 101-109, 1998.

Cook S.C., Giles T.C. & Gill M.C. "Trellis-Coded Modulation for HF Sixteen-Tone Modems" in Communications Theory and Applications II, B. Honary, M Darnell, P Farrell (Eds.), HW Communications Ltd, 1994, ISBN 0 9524280 1 6, pp 154-168.

Cook S.C., "HF Communications in the Information Age", Proceeding of IEE Conf. on HF Radio Systems and Techniques, Nottingham UK, 1997, (invited keynote address), IEE 441, pp 1-5.

Scholz, J.B., Cook, S.C. & Giles, T.C. "A Scheme for High Performance Real-Time BER Measurement", IEEE Transactions in Comm., Vol 40, No 10, pp 1574-1576, 1992.

Cook S.C."A Knowledge-Based System for Computer-Aided Production of Measuring Instrument Specifications", Measurement, Vol 11, pp 235- 255, 1993.

Cook S.C., Kasser J., and Asenstorfer J., “A Frame-Based Approach to Requirements Engineering”, Proceedings of the INCOSE 2001 Annual Symposium, Melbourne Australia, July 2001.

Scott W. & Cook S.C., “A Context-free Requirements Grammar to Facilitate Automatic Assessment”, Proc of the Australian Requirements Engineering Workshop, Adelaide, 6-7 December 2004.

Greenberg R., Cook S.C. & Harris D., “A Probability Model of the Piloting System in Large Passenger Transport Aircraft”, Proc of the 10th Australian International Aerospace Congress, July 2003, Engineers Australia, ISBN 085-825-733-5.

Greenberg R., Cook S.C. and Harris D., “An Aviation Safety Assessment Model Using a Bayesian Belief Network (BBN)”, Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, ISSN 0001-9240, Vol 109 No 1101, November 2005, pp557-568.

Cropley D. H., Sproles N. and Cook S.C., “The Science of Command and Control (C2)”, Journal of Battlefield Technology, ISSN 1440-5113, Vol 8, No 1, March 2005, pp 15-23.

Cook S.C., Kasser J. E. & Ferris T. L. J. “Elements of a Framework for the Engineering of Complex Systems”, Proc of ANZSYS 03, Melbourne, November, 2003, ISBN No 0-9581275-3-0.

Vencel L. & Cook S.C., “A System of Systems Methodologies for the Engineering of Complex Systems”, in Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering, Rochester, NY, USA, July 2005.

Cook S.C. and Ferris T.L.J., “The Fundamental Nature of Systems Engineering”, in Proceeding of the ANZSYS 2005, Christchurch, New Zealand, 5 to 7 December 2005, ISBN 0976681447.

Moon, T., Smith, J. and Cook, S.C., “Technology Readiness and Technical Risk Assessment for the Australian Defence Organisation”, in Proceedings of the Systems Engineering, Test & Evaluation Conference, SETE 2005 – A Decade of Growth and Beyond, Brisbane, Queensland, 7 to 9 November 2005.

Cook S.C., Sciacca L., Bates B., Nandagopal D., Allison S., Shackleton D. and Yates A., “A National Approach to Systems Integration Skills Base Development in Australia”, in INCOSE 2006 – 16th Annual International Symposium Proceedings, Orlando, FL, USA, July 2006.

Sitnikova E., Kroeger T. and Cook S., “Software and Systems Engineering Process Capability in the South Australian Defence Industry: Baseline Survey Findings”, Proc of SETE 2006, Melbourne, September 2006.

Lawson E., Ferris T., Cropley D. and Cook S., Development of a Foundation for Military Network Science, University of South Australia, 55 pages, 2006.

Cropley D. H., Sproles N. and Cook S.C., “The Science of Command and Control (C2)”, Journal of Battlefield Technology, ISSN 1440-5113, Vol 8, No 1, March 2005, pp 15-23.

Greenberg R., Cook S.C. and Harris D., “An Aviation Safety Assessment Model Using a Bayesian Belief Network (BBN)”, Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, ISSN 0001-9240, Vol 109 No 1101, November 2005, pp557-568.

Cook S.C. and Ferris T.L.J., “Re-evaluating Systems Engineering as a Framework for Tackling Systems Issues”, J. Systems Research & Behavioral Science, Syst. Res. 24 169-181, 2007.

Sitnikova E., Kroeger T. and Cook S.C., “Software and Systems Engineering Process Capability in the South Australian Defence Industry”, Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering, Innovations Syst Softw Eng (2007) 3:129-139, DOI 10.1007/s11334-007-0020-5.

Ferris, T.L.J., Cook, S.C. and Sitnikova, E., “Design as a Research Methodology for Systems Engineering”, in Proceedings of CSER 08 Conference of Systems Engineering Research, Los Angeles, USA, 4 to 5 April, 2008.

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Systems Engineering

• Development of large, complex defence systems