Professor Simon P. Philbin
London South Bank University, UK
From the Physical Sciences to Engineering Management – Navigating a Career in Research
Professor Simon P Philbin is Director of the Nathu Puri Institute for Engineering and Enterprise at London South Bank University (LSBU) in the United Kingdom. Simon joined LSBU in 2018 and previously worked as Director of Programme Management at Imperial College London. While at Imperial and over 15 years, he held a number of senior management roles. Prior to joining Imperial in 2003, he was at the UK Ministry of Defence and originally worked as a synthetic organic chemist. He is published across several areas including project management, research & technology management, and chemistry. Simon holds a BSc (University of Birmingham) and PhD (Brunel University) in chemistry as well as an MBA with distinction (Open University Business School). Simon currently serves as the President of the American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM) and he has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2014. Previous academic roles include Visiting Fellow at Imperial College Business School and Visiting Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Fellow of ASEM.
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Engineering Management for Sustainable Development
Yesim Sireli, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the Systems Engineering & Engineering Management Department of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is the International Director of the American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM), a member of the ASEM Board of Directors, and an Editorial Board Member of the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. Her interest areas include managerial decision-making, science policy, business forecasting and systems analysis, particularly in various application areas related to sustainable development. Dr. Sireli is an Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Ph.D. graduate of Old Dominion University and holds M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University.