Eric Honour

Background

About Eric Honour

CSEP, INCOSE Fellow, former INCOSE President—and now polymath, iconoclast, and author. Eric "Doc" Honour writes the future to illuminate today, drawing on his International leadership of the engineering of systems and a 49-year career of complex systems development and operation. See his work at He was the founding Chair of the INCOSE (International Council on Systems Engineering) Technical Board in 1994, was elected to INCOSE President for 1997, and served as Director of the Systems Engineering Center of Excellence (SECOE). He was selected in for Who’s Who in Science and Technology, in 2004 as an INCOSE Founder, and in 2010 as an INCOSE Fellow. He was a founding member of the editorial board for the Systems Engineering journal. He has been a systems engineer, engineering manager, and program manager at Harris Information Systems, E-Systems Melpar, and Singer Link, preceded by nine years as a US Naval Officer flying P-3 aircraft. He has led or contributed to the development of 18 major systems, including the Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation systems, the Battle Group Passive Horizon Extension System, the National Crime Information Center, and the DDC1200 Digital Zone Control system for heating and air conditioning. Dr. Honour has a BSSE (Systems Engineering) from the US Naval Academy, MSEE from the Naval Postgraduate School, and PhD from the University of South Australia based on his ground-breaking work to quantify the value of systems engineering. Specialties: Systems engineering Program management Technical management