Chapter Overview 10 June 2010 North Star Chapter 1 Tonights Schedule 6:15 PM – Registration, Networking, Pizza 6:45 PM – Welcome and Chapter Overview Mark.

Chapter Overview10 June 2010North Star Chapter

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Tonight’s Schedule

• 6:15 PM – Registration, Networking, Pizza

• 6:45 PM – Welcome and Chapter Overview

Mark Elpers, Chapter President

• 7:00 PM – “SI Paper” & “SE Return On Investment”

Dave Walden, Eric Honour

• 8:30 PM – Adjourn


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2010 Program Themes

1. How SE Helps You Survive in a Down Economy

2. Practical Applications of SE

3. SE World Wide

4. How is SE Good For Me?


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14 January: “Leveraging Certification – Individually and for Your Organization” (Dave Walden/Sysnovation)

Medtronic18 February: “The Unscrambling Of Cross-town Commons” (MnDOT)

Boston Scientific - Maple Grove9 March: “System of Systems Engineering for Complex Medical

Systems” (Ken Hoyme) Boston Scientific - Arden Hills

15 April: “Projects Don’t Begin With Requirements” (Kevin Forsberg) BAE Systems

20 May: Review of Student Design Projects and Their Use of SE Wayzata High School

10 June: Dry run of papers for INCOSE 2010 plus “Systems Engineering Return On Investment” (Eric Honour)

University of St Thomas

2010 Calendar


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17 July: Summer Social & IS 2010 Debrief By Samantha Brown Minnetonka Boat Ride

Dinner @ “Jake O’Connor’s Public House”

12 August: “Risk and Project Management” (Hornbacher & Assoc.)

Lockheed

9 September: “SE in Operating Systems”

City Water Works Tour

14 October: “SE in the Production Process”

Ford Assembly Plant Tour

11 November: “AADL (Architectural Analysis & Design Language) & BLESS (Behavioral

Language for Embedded Systems with Software”) (Brian Larson)

Medtronic

9 December: Holiday Party

Venue TBD

2010 Calendar


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Event Calendar

Details online @http://www.incose.org

Jul 11-15, 2010: INCOSE International Symposium

(Hyatt Regency O’Hare - Chicago, Illinois)

Sep 27-28, 2010: 3rd International Conference On Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)

(George Mason University - Fairfax, Virginia)

Oct 4-6, 2010: 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on SE

(Keelung, Taiwan)

Jan 29-Feb 1, 2011: INCOSE International Workshop

(Hyatt Regency Phoenix – Phoenix, Arizona)


Communication

North Star Chapter Web Site:

www.incose.org/northstar

• North Star Newsletter – The Integrator– April 2010 issue viewable/downloadable on line

• North Star Chapter Meeting Information– Charts from past meetings are viewable and

downloadable on the website


For posting or seeking job opportunities:

• Go to: www.incose.org

– Select “Education and Careers”

– Select “Post a Job”

– Create an account

– Post job openings

– Select “View Jobs” to see the listings

Job Opportunities

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Why sign in?

• For the past several years we have had the chapter incentive

program to encourage attendance at our meetings.

• For 2010, two $25 gift certificates for any Restaurant will be

awarded to every member attending six or more regular meetings

or who brings one new member into the chapter. (Note – You

must be a member in good standing for the entire year to qualify)

• For guests or members attending for the first time, this also

insures your notification by email of all subsequent events.

Attendance

BE SURE AND SIGN THE ATTENDANCE LIST!

PLEASE WRITE SO WE CAN READ IT!!


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Backup Slides


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Systems Engineering

International Council On Systems Engineering is a not-for-profit

membership organization founded in 1990. Its mission is to advance the

state of the art and practice of systems engineering in industry, academia,

and government by promoting interdisciplinary, scalable approaches to

produce technologically appropriate solutions that meet societal needs.

What Is INCOSE?


• Attendance at our meetings continues to grow…but so does the cost of Pizza

• We will continue to have networking time and serve appetizers and soft drinks

• We ask that you help us by making a voluntary donation• You decide if and the amount and place it in the gold box

(any amount helps)

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Many thanks, your response to date has been most helpful

Donations


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• Ambassador chair is seeking assistance to help spread the word about

chapter events

• Volunteers are being sought from inside organizations to aid

communication of meetings and seminars

• Sign up a couple of ways

• Contribute your contact information via the survey

• Sign up at the meeting, see Ambassador Group sign up sheet at the table

• For more information contact [email protected]

Ambassador Group


• Dr. Kevin Forsberg draws on 27 years of industrial experience in systems engineering, project, and proposal management, and 26 years of successful consulting to both government and industry• Experience ranges from research projects, to development efforts, through to full-scale production implementation • Provided training and consulting to both government and commercial clients sine 1983• Specializes in systems, hardware and software project management, and the related processes, techniques, and skills essential to achieving predictable project performance• CEO and founder of the Center for Systems Management

Kevin Forsberg

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MFESTS


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MFESTS


It has been suggested that we could network better…

…please take a moment to introduce yourselves to those on your right and left!!!

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Introductions


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• Thank you for your participation in our chapter survey

• We’re sending it a second time just to get maximum response

• Don’t respond to this second one if you responded to the first

• We’ll use these results to guide our meeting & tutorial planning

Chapter Survey


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Chapter Survey

• Thank you for participating in our recent chapter interest survey!– 59 member and non-member participants responded– Respondent represented....

– a broad range of experience levels

– inputs from the consumer, commercial, industrial, med device, defense, healthcare and business/information industries

• Information is being analyzed to aid our chapter planning in regards to meetings and tutorials


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Chapter Survey


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Program Themes Chapter Calendar Chapter Organization Chapter Communications INCOSE Event Calendar SE Certification Job Opportunities Applicable Project Life Cycle Phase Attendance Donations Speaker Introduction

Overview Agenda

Chapter Overview8 May 2008North Star Chapter

Chapter Overview14 January 2010

Professional Certification Program

International Council on Systems Engineering has established a multi-level Professional Certification Program to provide a formal method for recognizing the knowledge and experience of systems

engineers, regardless of where they may be in their career.


2010Chapter Organization

INCOSE Certification Advisory Group (CAG)Eileen Arnold – Chair

CAG Project ManagerDave Walden

Contact Eileen Arnold

• Systems Science• SE Technical Process• Architecture• SE Management Process• Requirements• Risk • SE Support Processes • Measurement• Modeling & Tools• Specialty Engineering• Application Sectors

PresidentMark Elpers

SecretaryBob Hunter

TreasurerJohn Palmer

Dir. IndustryMark Feitel

President ElectPaul Frenz

Past President Neill RadkeJohn Palmer

Dir. Acad/Govt Neill Radke

North Star Leadership

CommunicationEileen Arnold

Technical Operations


ISO 15288 Project Life Cycle

Stakeholder Requirements Definition

VerificationRequirements Analysis

Transition

Architectural Design

Validation

Implementation

Operation

Integration

Maintenance

Disposal

Project Planning Project Assessment Project Control

Decision Making Risk Management Configuration Management Information Management

Stakeholder Requirements Definition

VerificationRequirements Analysis

Transition

Architectural Design

Validation

Implementation

Operation

Integration

Maintenance

Disposal

Enterprise EnvironmentManagement

System Life Cycle Process Management

Quality Management

Resource ManagementInvestment ManagementSupply

Acquisition

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