Chapter Overview 11 November 2010 North Star Chapter 1 Tonights Schedule 6:15 PM – Registration, Networking, Appetizers 6:45 PM – Welcome and Chapter Overview.

Chapter Overview11 November 2010North Star Chapter

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Tonight’s Schedule

• 6:15 PM – Registration, Networking, Appetizers

• 6:45 PM – Welcome and Chapter Overview

Mark Elpers, CSEP, 2010 President

• 7:00 PM – “Proving Functional Correctness using

AADL & BLESS”

Brian Larson, Multitude Corporation

• 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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17 July: Summer Social & IS 2010 (No 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”

Lock & Dam | St. Anthony Falls Research Center

21 October: “Empowering Your Practice with Ethics” (Kristine Kubes)

Bloomington Timberlodge Steakhouse

11 November: “Proving Functional Correctness Using BLESS”

(Brian Larson)

Medtronic

4 December: Holiday Party

Santorini's in Eden Prairie at 7 PM

2010 Calendar


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Event Calendar

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

Jan 29-Feb 1, 2011: INCOSE International Workshop

(Hyatt Regency Phoenix – Phoenix, Arizona)

Mar 8-9, 2011: 6th International Conference On SE

(Herzlia, Israel)

June 20-23: 21st Annual INCOSE International Symposia

(Hyatt Regency Denver – Denver, Colorado)


Communication

North Star Chapter Web Site:

www.incose.org/northstar

• North Star Newsletter – The Integrator– October 2010 issue viewable/downloadable

• 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!!


• 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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What Is INCOSE?

International Council On Systems Engineering:

Not-for-profit membership organization founded in 1990

Mission:

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.


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Why Join INCOSE?

A membership in the International Council on Systems Engineering will expand your view of the engineering of complex systems and your knowledge of the many aspects of the practice.

Project managers, software and hardware engineers and product developers are joining

INCOSE to learn how to the use the systems engineering process and apply it to their industries.

Get a global perspective of your job responsibilities. Learn how the application of systems engineering techniques can improve your job performance and your organization's well being.


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Why Join INCOSE?

With your membership, you'll receive the following: – Network with over more than 7,000 members in 40 countries

– Quarterly e-Publication, INSIGHT

– Electronic version of Systems Engineering, the Journal of INCOSE

– Contribute through INCOSE technical activities

– Collaborate with experts and practitioners

– Lowest prices on INCOSE Publications

– Access to i-Pub, the INCOSE publications database (> 2,000 symposia papers

– Exclusive access to INCOSE Connect, the collaborative space (members only)

– Special Downloads

– Membership Directory

– Current and past issues of INSIGHT

– Systems Engineering Handbook (no charge to members in softcopy)

– Measurement Primer (no charge to members in softcopy)

– Current and past issues of the Journal


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Why Join INCOSE?

Your membership supports: – Annual International Symposia

– Local Chapter Operations

– INCOSE Connect collaboration space

– The Discussion Forum email reflector (for online discussions)

– INCOSE Representation on Standards Committees

– Professionally Operated INCOSE Office

You'll have opportunities to purchase: – INCOSE Guidebooks and Handbooks

– Annual Proceedings on CD-ROM

– Products from Technical Committees


Founder of Multitude Corporation

Active member of the AADL standard committee (SAE AS5506A)

BSEE and MSCSci from the University of Minnesota

Principal Systems Engineer at Boston Scientific from 2005-2010

Designed HW of embedded systems for a large defense contractor

Built supercomputers using a radically different architecture

Created concurrent programming language & outline checker to prove correctness & interference freedom which spawned BLESS & proof tool

Brian Larson

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Backup Slides


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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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Systems Engineering

What is a System?

A system is a whole that functions as a whole by virtue of the interaction of its parts.

This definition implies that:

• All parts are necessary

• They need to be linked for the system to work


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Systems Engineering

What is Systems Engineering?

•A profession, a process and a perspective•Focus on design & application of the whole – not the parts•Involves looking at a problem in its entirety

•Glue that holds all components of a solution together into a whole that satisfies customer needs


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Systems Engineering

What are components?• Hardware• Software• Safety• Human Factors• Reliability• Maintainability• Logistics Support• Training• Disposability

• Environment• Manufacturing• Structure• Materials• Architecture• Cost• Schedule• Test• Many, many more


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Systems Engineering

Who Cares? …the Stakeholders• Advocate or proponent• Shareholder• Owner• User(s)• Architects• Developer• Services provider• Independent Test Agency• Administrator

• Mission planner• Analyst• Support• Maintenance• Instructor• Critic• Competitor• Adversary• General Public


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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


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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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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 Minnesota, College Of Continuing Education, St. Paul Campus, Room 155

2010 Calendar

Chapter Overview 11 November 2010 North Star Chapter 1 Tonights Schedule 6:15 PM – Registration, Networking, Appetizers 6:45 PM – Welcome and Chapter Overview.

Documents

north star chapter attendance

chapter overview mark

chapter incentive program

north star newsletter

journal of incose

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journal slide

colorado slide