Technical Seminar by Dr. Mike Siok

The RS Dallas Chapter organized a four-hour lecture about Software Safety: Process Overview and Application by Dr. Mike Silk on June 9, 2017. It discussed the role of software engineering practices in assuring safe systems operation. It also included an in-class exercise where students were divided into groups to work on given scenarios to reduce the possible safety risk, and present their solution.

Dr. Siok is a staff Software Systems Engineer with over 25 years of experience in embedded avionic computer systems and software development at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company in Fort Worth, Texas. He has actively conducted research in computer performance and software assurance, developed detailed planning for avionics software programs, managed large avionics laboratory development projects, and performed avionics system testing and analysis. In recent work, Dr. Siok led an inter-disciplinary, inter-company senior engineering team to define and put into place the standard engineering practice for software safety at the company.

Dr. Siok received his D.Eng. and M.S. in Engineering Management from Southern Methodist University, and a Bachelor's of Engineering Technology, Electronics, (with a double major in Music) from Southwest State University in Marshall, Minnesota. He is the Chair of the IEEE Fort Worth Section, a registered Texas Professional Engineer, and an INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP).

Lecture by Dr. Mike Siok at UTD on June 9, 2017