Dr Maged Morcos
Dr Maged S Morcos BSc., MSc.(Eng.), PhD, MMES, Fulbright Alumnus, FHEA
Research Associate in Systems Engineering
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Dr Morcos is currently a research associate in the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering based in the Systems Engineering Innovation Centre (SEIC). Dr Morcos got his BSc. in civil engineering (construction management) in 1981. He then worked in the construction industry for some years before getting both his MSc. (Eng.) in 1990 in Construction management and Ph.D in 1995 in Project Management (with emphasis on Systems and Reliability Engineering and Management) from the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Leeds, in England, UK.
Dr Morcos current research interest and work involves the developing of a soft systems model approach and human role matrix for transforming organisations from product only to product and service mix ones. In his work he focuses on finding the means and approaches to ease the tension between front and back offices in companies and help managers to manage both functions effectively using a systems engineering and systems of systems approaches. Other research interest includes studying systems failures and assessing reliability of systems and projects in different industries including construction, manufacturing and defence. In his work he uses an integrated qualitative and quantitative approaches for operating the processes of a system and managing all associated risks involved for achieving a successful and reliable system performance.
Dr Morcos has as well a long teaching experience where he taught and still teaching internationally in academia and as a management and training consultant in different places with high reputable institutes, companies and universities including Egypt, Kuwait, USA and the UK. For complete teaching list please refer to his detailed CV. Among the subjects that Dr Morcos teaches are: systems thinking, systems analysis and systems engineering, concurrent Engineering, quantitative methods for business decisions, operations research (Management science), operations management, systems thinking and policy management, Information management, project management and capability management, construction project management, risk analysis and risk management, Decision making and multi-criteria decision making, and Systems approach to operations project management and production management.
Dr Morcos had various researches, academic and industrial papers published in refereed international journals including IEEE, refereed conference proceedings, research reports, newsletters and industrial published articles. Dr Morcos had also supervised over than 50 MSc. dissertations and PhD students. He had a number of publications in refereed journal and conference papers, industrial professional articles, and wrote official reports in engineering and management. He had also contributed with chapters in risk analysis and project management published book edited by George Washington University, USA and co-authored in a manual for a risk analysis book at University of Martland, USA. He is also an active member of the Engineering Management Society (MMES) and a member of other engineering and management professional bodies and syndicates.
Dr Morcos is an active member of the Engineering Management Society (MMES) a chapter of the IEEE of engineering management and also a member of other engineering and management professional bodies and syndicates including the ASCE, the syndicate of engineering in Egypt, the performance management association (PMA). Currently he is pursuing application for membership in the Association of Project management (APM), the institute of civil engineering (ICE) in the UK, INCOSE and the Advanced Management Institute (AMI).
In terms of honours and international achievements, Dr Morcos got the Fellowship of Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in the UK in June 2009. In August 2002, Dr Morcos was awarded the Fulbright Commission – Research & Lecturing in the Civil Engineering & Environmental Department at Maryland University - College Park at USA. From September 1989 till February 1995, Dr Morcos was awarded the FCO (currently called Chevening) Full Scholar ship from British Council to pursue his MSc.(Eng.) and Ph.D at the University of Leeds, UK
Membership of Groups:
¨ 2008: Advanced System Group – Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department, SEIC, Loughborough University, UK.
¨ 2009: Engineering Systems of Systems (ESoS) Group, Loughborough University, UK.
¨ 2005- 2008: Responsive Manufacturing Group [RMG], Faculty of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Nottingham, UK.
Expertise
System of systems engineering
Systems Engineering
Systems of systems
Systems Theory and Practice
Technology Development and Roadmapping
Keywords
Technology Development and Roadmapping
Systems Theory and Practice
Systems of systems
Architectures
Methodologies
Processes and Thinking
Education
Feb. 1991- Feb. 1995 Ph.D. in Civil Engineering [Project Management and Systems Reliability Engineering Management]
Civil Engineering Department, University of Leeds, England - UK
Sept. 1989 – Sept. 1990 MSc. (Eng.) in Construction Engineering & Management
Class: Distinction
Civil Engineering Department, University of Leeds, England - UK
Sept. 1976 – June 1981 B.Sc. in Civil Engineering – [Structural and Construction Division] - Grade: First Class
Ain Shams University, Cairo -Egypt
Background
In academia, since 1998, Dr Morcos worked as an Associate Professor of Engineering Management in highly respectable education universities and institutes in the Middle East. In 2002 he earned a Fulbright research and lecturing award to work as a visiting Associate Professor in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, USA. Since January 2005. Dr Morcos worked as a research and lecturing fellow at the school of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering in the University of Nottingham, UK. His research involved looking into the methods of project portfolio prioritisation, selection and management of the Strategic Technology Alignment Roadmap (STAR) project, a multi-criteria decision-making R&D project funded by the EPSRC. The work was directed for Rolls Royce company. He also conducted a research project on Lean Manufacturing for the UK Lean Aerospace Initiative (UKLAI) and the Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC) which was completed in July 2005. He was also the convener of the concurrent engineering module and lectured the capability (project) management module. Dr Morcos then joined the Systems Engineering and Innovation Centre (SEIC) at Loughborough University in April 2008 to work in programme called Support Services Solutions: Strategies and Transition (S4T) which look into aspects and problems of organisational transformation. The work is conducted for BAE systems with cases studies in Bombardier and MBDA.
From industrial aspect, Dr Morcos possesses a very wide industrial experience with about 25 years of work in Contracting and Project Management careers. He used to work as technical manager, construction manager and then project manager for big projects. This enabled him to work as an independent engineering management and training consultant for big local and international contractors and project management companies including Bechtel, an American project management company, Laing(UK)/CRC(Egypt) a joint venture contracting company, FinRate management consulting company, PSA and A&A Associates designing companies in Leeds, UK and as public utility expert in one of the big UN programs in the Middle East in 1995-1996 with UNDP/OUDA (conducting the economical and technical feasibility study of the Suez Canal Bridge in Egypt). He was also honoured to be the first Egyptian training consultant to conduct the Cambridge licensed Project management course run in Egypt for engineers and managers practitioners from 2001 till 2004. The course was assessed by Cambridge University.
Former Visiting Associate Professor of Project Management
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742
Former Associate Professor of Engineering and Project Management
Acting Head of Management & Systems Department
Faculty of Management Sciences
University for Modern Sciences and Arts [MSA],
Dokki, Cairo, Egypt
Dr Morcos's research interests fall within the Systems Division of the department.
Operations Research and Management Science
¨ Planning and scheduling of manufacturing and service operations,
¨ Logistics and supply chain management,
¨ Developing frontier analysis for prioritising R&D projects
¨ Researching in operational research methods for better decision making
¨ Assessing failures in supply chain systems using reliability methods
¨ Looking into causes and problems of project delays and failures using management science approaches
¨ Systems approach to operations project management
¨ Systems, risk and reliability engineering and management
Organisational modelling
¨ Enterprise and organisational modelling and process design
¨ Analysing disturbances in manufacturing systems
¨ Easing tension between front and Back Offices in companies
¨ Transforming organisations from product to product and service mix
¨ Through-life support (TLC) and Through-life management (TLM) in construction, defence and manufacturing
Decision-Making
¨ Multi-Criteria decision making and its application in road mapping
¨ Project and programme portfolio management
¨ Risk and value management
¨ Probabilistic risk and reliability analysis
Business Management and Performance Measurement
¨ Lean thinking and management
¨ Performance management and measurement (Quantitative vs. qualitative methods)
¨ Knowledge management and Organisation learning in construction and/or manufacturing projects/organisations
¨ Innovative and information management
¨ Application of problem structuring methods (PSMs) in project management (eg. soft systems methodology)
Dr Morcos's research projects include
April 2008 – Present:
Project #1: S4T: Support Service Solutions: Strategy and Transition
Activities: building a soft systems model for transforming BAE systems product company to product-service company. Modelling is sought to be in operational as well business level to clarify issues and activities required for this transformation.
Project #2: NECTISE: Network Enabled Capability Through Innovative Systems Engineering
Activities: looking into issues for acquiring knowledge across the network capability management disciplines using a systems of systems perspective.
Computer Programming Produced– Using VB
Project #1: A Role Matrix Technique Tool
Jan 2005 – Apr 2008: Responsive Manufacturing Group [RMG], School of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering (M3), University of Nottingham, UK.
Researching: With Professor N. Gindy - RMG
Project #1: Lean Thinking and Manufacturing Disturbances
Activities: Looking for problems of signalling disturbances for lean disturbances assessment in manufacturing systems and providing recommendations to alleviate/reduce signal variations in the supply chain.
Project #2: Technology Road mapping and Multi-criteria investment decision-making
Activities: Developing research, using MCDM approach for assessing, evaluating, prioritising, and building a computer program for visualising portfolio of technological R&D projects through STAR roadmap exercise.
Computer Programming Produced – Using VB
Project #1: : A Project Portfolio Technology Frontier and TOPSIS Package for STAR project (Strategic Technology Alignment Road-mapping).
Project #2: A Lean Manufacturing Disturbances Assessment Tool
Jan 2005 – Apr 2008: University of Nottingham, UK: Responsive Manufacturing Group [RMG], Faculty of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering
¨ Concurrent Engineering [MM3CNG] – Module Convener Autumn 2006 – until 2008.
¨ Capability and Project Management [MM4CAP] Spring 2005 – until 2007.
Oct 2007 – Jun 2008: Nottingham Trent University Nottingham, UK. The Built and Architecture department (Construction Management Masters Degree)
¨ Project Management course for Masters Degree – Part Time Lecturer-CONM30004 Integrated Project
Dr Morcos also has extensive experience in teaching at the University for Modern Sciences and Arts [MSA], Cairo,Egypt.
View all Dr Morcos’s publications in the central publications database
Selected Publications
Maged S Morcos (2008), “Modelling Resource Allocation of R&D Project Portfolios Using A Multi-Criteria Decision Making Methodology” – Published in International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management- Special issue on Project Portfolio Management, Vol. 25 No.1. 2008, pp.72-86, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
Nabil Gindy, Maged Morcos*, Bulent Cerit and Allan Hudgson (2008), “Strategic Technology Alignment Roadmapping STAR® Aligning R&D Investments with Business Objectives”, International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Appeared in journal publication August 2008 (*Corresponding Author).
Maged S. Morcos*, Michael Henshaw (2009), “A Systems Approach for Balancing Internal Company Capability and External Client Demand for Integrated Product-Service Solutions”, IEEE International Conference on Service, Operations, Logistics and Informatics , IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society, July 22–24, 2009 Chicago, USA (*Corresponding Author).
Maged S. Morcos*, Gerald Robinson and Nabil Gindy (2007) “A Lean Assessment Tool for Analysing Disturbance Problems in Manufacturing”, Proceedings of the 4thInternational Conference on responsive manufacturing, edited by NNZ Gindy, ICRM 2007.