Dr Vassilis Agouridas BSs(Hons), MEng(Hons), PhD, PGCLTHE, MIEE
Dr Vassilis Agouridas is a Lecturer in Engineering and Product Design in the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Leeds, UK. His research focuses on formalising the requirements analysis process and on downstream integration management–specifically, on systematic methods for assuring that stakeholder needs and system design attributes are demonstrably aligned. He is currently a Leeds co-investigator on the EPSRC UK Grand Challenge project entitled “Immortal information and through-life knowledge management: strategies and tools for the emerging product-service business paradigm. Vassilis has earned an MEng in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, and his PhD in Requirements Engineering and Management from the University of Leeds, UK. For his PhD research, Vassilis received the prestigious First Annual INCOSE-Stevens Institute Doctoral Award for Promising Research in Systems Engineering and Integration at the 12th Annual International Symposium of INCOSE in July 2002, at Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Papers
- V. Agouridas, H. Winand, A. McKay and A. de Pennington, 2006, “Early alignment of design requirements with stakeholder needs”, paper to appear in Proceedings of the IMechE, Journal of Engineering Manufacture - Part B, Professional Publishing, London, UK
- V Agouridas, J Longstaff, A McKay and T Childs, 2006, “Challenges in the application of systems engineering principles to the design of appealing consumer products”, paper to appear in the Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering, July 2006, Orlando, FL, USA
- V Agouridas, A Marshall, A McKay and A de Pennington, 2006, “Establishing stakeholder needs for medical devices: A hip-joint surgical instruments case study”, paper submitted for review to ASME 2006 Design Engineering Technical Conferences, PA, Pennsylvania, USA
- T Childs, V Agouridas, C Barnes and B Henson, 2006, Controlled Appeal Product Design: a Life Cycle Role for Affective (Kansei) Engineering, paper submitted for review to the 13th CIRP International Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, Leuven, May-June 2006, Belgium.
- V. Agouridas, A. McKay and A. de Pennington, 2004, “Consumer product development: A systems engineering approach to the derivation of design requirements from stakeholder needs”, in Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering and 4th European Systems Engineering Conference, June 2004, Toulouse, France
- I. Effendi, B. Henson, V. Agouridas, A. de Pennington, 2002, “Methods and tools for Requirements Engineering of electro-mechanical products”, in Proceedings of DECT’02, 2002 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Montreal, Canada
- J. Baxter, A. McKay, V. Agouridas, A. de Pennington, 2002, “Supply chain design: An application of Axiomatic Design”, in Proceedings of ICAD2002, Second International Conference on Axiomatic Design, MIT, USA
- V. Agouridas, J. Baxter, A. McKay, A. de Pennington, 2001, “On defining product requirements: A case study in the UK health care sector”, Proceedings of DECT’01, 2001 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- V. Agouridas, et al, 2001, “Using information structures to gain competitive
advantage”, in Technology Management in the Knowledge Era, PICMET '01-IEEE
Conferences on Engineering Management , Portland, Oregon, USA.
