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Prof Joseph Kasser was a practising systems engineer and manager for 30 years before
joining academia. He is:
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a principal at the Right
Requirement Ltd;
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a visiting associate
professor at the National University of Singapore.
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He gave up his positions
as a Deputy Director and DSTO Associate Research Professor at the Systems
Engineering and Evaluation Centre at the University of South Australia in
early 2007 to move back to the UK to develop the world's
first immersion course in systems engineering as a Leverhulme
Visiting Professor at Cranfield University.
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Prof Kasser mixes his
profession with his hobby and sees many similarities between systems
engineering and amateur radio. He is an active amateur radio operator. He
received his first call sign G8BTB almost 40 years ago, and after upgrading
to G3ZCZ operated briefly as ON8IK, F0WN and W8/G3ZCZ, and then for many
years as W3/G3ZCZ, 4X/G3ZCZ and VK5WU. He has a history of experimentation
and innovation, including:
- He designed a hardware-based Self
Operating Radioteletypwriter Contest Amateur Radio Station (SORCARS ) in 1972 and programmed
it into LanLink years later. The QSO
machine performed unassisted (but not unattended) in the
1990 ARRL RTTY contest, and did not come last in its
section!
- He was one of the initial group of
experimenters to receive a special permit from the US Federal
Communications Commission to transmit and receive ASCII over the air
when packet radio and other modern digital modes were not even a gleam
in their experimenter's eyes.
- He claims the first OSCAR contact from a
vehicle in motion when he and Art Feller, W4ART, communicated via
AMSAT-OSCAR 6 while driving through Silver Spring in suburban Maryland
which is about 10 miles up the road from the White House.
He served as AMSAT's publications editor for
more than 15 years, and over the years has authored three books on amateur
radio, a number of articles in QST, 73, Ham
Radio, RadCom, and other publications in the UK, US, and Australia. As
well as writing and editing articles, he also writes software for amateur
radio and is the author of several programs including Whats Up, CQ-SS and LanLink which was flown on the space shuttle
mission STS-35 and featured on a cover of QST.
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Awards
- International Council on Systems Engineering (
INCOSE)
Fellow, July 2006.
- Best Paper, Systems Engineering Technical Processes
track, at the 16th Annual Symposium of the INCOSE, 2006, and the
17th Annual Symposium of the INCOSE, 2007.
- United States Air Force (USAF) Office of Scientific
Research Window on Science program visitor , 2004.
- Inaugural SEEC "Bust a Gut" Award, SEEC,
2004.
- Employee of the Year, SEEC, 2000.
- Distance Education Fellow, University System of
Maryland, 1998-2000.
- Outstanding Paper Presentation, Systems Engineering
Management track, at the 6th Annual Symposium of the INCOSE, 1996.
- Distinguished Service Award, Institute of Certified
Professional Managers (ICPM), 1993.
- Manned Space Flight Awareness Award (Silver
Snoopy) for quality and technical
excellence, for performing and directing systems engineering, NASA,
1991.
- Goddard Space Flight Center Community Service Award,
NASA, 1990.
- The E3 award for Excellence, Endurance and Effort,
Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), 1981, and three subsequent
awards for outstanding performance.
- Letters of commendation and certificates of
appreciation from employers and satisfied customers including the:
Defence Materiel Organisation, University of South Australia, Systems
Engineering Society of Australia (SESA), United States Office of
Personnel Management (OPM), University System of Maryland, Computer
Sciences Corporation (CSC), Loral Corporation, Luz Industries,
Communications Satellite Corporation (Comsat), American Society for
Quality (ASQ), Association for Quality and Participation (AQP), the
Wireless Institute of Australia, and the American Radio Relay League
(ARRL).
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