Safer Complex Systems case study launch

Overview

The Safer Complex Systems programme commissioned 18 Awardees to develop case studies that examine complex system successes and failures, in order to address a gap in materials available for engineering education and professional development relevant to achieving safer complex systems. The case studies explore how a specific approach to the design, management or governance of a complex system has resulted in safe or unsafe outcomes.

This online event will showcase the work of our Awardees, which ranged from dynamic cycling transport systems in Colombia, to climate change in the Netherlands, to nursing home failures in Australia, to emergent fire risk in South Africa and train derailments in the UK. Following this event, the case studies will be available in full on the Engineering X website.

Safer Complex Systems is one of five missions being pursued by Engineering X, an international collaboration co-founded by the Royal Academy of Engineering and Lloyd’s Register Foundation.

Programme

1.00pm	Keynote presentation Dame Judith Hackitt DBE FREng, Chair, Enginuity and Chair, SCS Programme Board
1.15pm	Awardee presentations Professor Andrés Medaglia, Professor of Industrial Engineering, Universidad de los Andes and SCS Awardee Professor Steve Gwynne, Research Lead, Movement Strategies and SCS Awardee Dr Kristen MacAskill, Assistant Professor of Engineering, Environment and Sustainable Development, Cambridge University and SCS Awardee
2.00pm	Panel discussion and Q&A Chaired by Professor Brian Collins CB FREng, Emeritus Professor of Engineering Policy, University College London and Chair, SCS Case Study Steering Committee With panellists Dr Chris Elliott MBE FREng, Chief Regulatory Officer, Leman Micro Devices SA and SCS Awardee Danielle Antonellis, Founder and Executive Director, Kindling and SCS Awardee Professor Richard Taylor, Honorary Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Bristol and SCS Awardee
2.30pm	Close of event