Chapter Overview 12 March 2009 North Star Chapter 1 2009 Program Theme Practical Applications of Systems Engineering Emphasis – The Program Life Cycle.

Chapter Overview12 March 2009North Star Chapter

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2009Program Theme

Practical Applications of Systems Engineering

Emphasis – The Program Life Cycle


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Tonight’s Agenda

• 6:15 PM – Registration, Networking, Pizza

• 6:45 PM – Welcome and Chapter Overview

Neill Radke, Chapter Co-President

• 6:55 PM – Importance of SE to Emerging New Engineers

Neill Radke

• 7:00 PM – Systems Engineering in a High School Student Project

Bill Waite

• 8:30 PM – Adjourn (or later depending on meeting duration)


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Chapter Calendar

A note on attendance

INCOSE Events

Chapter Organization

SE Certification

Chapter Web Site

Job Opportunities

A Little on Systems Engineering

Chapter Meeting


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8 January – SE Initiatives at Starkey Labs, with a detailed tour of the Starkey facilities

Starkey Laboratories 12 February – SE in Production Systems with a tour of the PaR

Facilities PaR Systems

12 March – SE in a Student Project Wayzata High School

9 April – SE in Determining Interfaces Medtronic (MTS Corporation as Host)

14 May – SE in the Solar House Student Project National Competition

University of Minnesota 11 June – Dry run of papers for INCOSE 2009 plus a tour of the ION

Corporation laboratory facility ION Corporation

2009 Meeting Calendar


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9 July – The North Star Summer Social, including IS 2009 Debrief

Place - TBD

13 August – SE in Design

ADC Corporation

10 September – SE in Determining Architecture

Eaton Corporation

8 October – SE in Operations and Maintenance

Minneapolis Water Works

12 November – SE in Requirements Development

Honeywell

13 December – Annual North Star Holiday Party

Place - TBD

2009 Meeting Calendar

Chapter Overview12 March 2009North Star Chapter Spring Tutorial

• Identifies the elements and benefits of a complete, proven system engineering process• Demonstrates its applicability and contribution towards project success using vignettes

from sample Systems and System of Systems (SoS) applications. • Illustrates, using examples from Vitech’s CORE systems engineering tool, how the

model-based system engineering process supports both document-driven and model-based paradigms for milestone reviews; and also top-down, middle-out, or reverse engineering environments.

• Discusses how to know when each element of the process has been completed, and how to develop and validate functional and physical architectures using executable architectures.

North Star Chapter

North Star Chapter

Boston Scientific, One Scimed Place, Maple Grove, MN

- Saturday, 25 April, 2009 –

SPRING TUTORIAL

INCOSE NORTH STAR CHAPTER

Model-Based Systems Engineering for Project Success: The Complete Process


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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 2009, two $25 gift certificates for the TimberLodge Restaurant

will be awarded to any member attending six or more regular

meetings or brings one new member into the chapter.

• 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 is Growing but so is the cost of Pizza!

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

• We ask that you help us a bit by making a voluntary donation.

• You decide the amount and place it in the gold box.

Many thanks

PIZZA

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INCOSE Events

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

March 17 - 19, 2009: Human Systems Integration Symposium 2009

Loughborough, UK

Annapolis, MD April 2 – 4, 2009: The International Council on Systems Engineering Spring 09

Conference at the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center (VMASC) Suffolk, VA

April 20 - 22, 2009: Conference on Systems Engineering Research

Loughborough, UK July 19 - 23, 2009: INCOSE International Symposium

Singapore

Chapter Overview8 May 2008North Star Chapter

Chapter Overview12 March 2009

2009Chapter 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

PresidentNeill Radke &John Palmer

SecretaryBob Hunter

TreasurerMark Elpers

Dir. IndustryMark Feitel

President ElectMark Elpers

Past President Elliot Abrons

Dir. Acad/Govt Eileen Arnold

North Star Leadership

CommunicationEileen Arnold

Technical Operations



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.



Systems Engineering Certification

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To be a Associate Systems Engineering Professional,

you must pass the certification test.

To be a Certified Systems Engineering Professional,

you must pass the certification test, have at least 5 years of systems engineering experience, and have 3

letters of reference.

INCOSE Program Manager for Certification Dave Walden

<www.incose.org>


Communication

North Star Chapter Web Site:

www.incose.org/northstar

• North Star Newsletter – The Integrator– February 2008 issue published and viewable/downloadable on the

website– Next issue in late April

• North Star Chapter Meeting Information– Charts from past meetings are viewable/ downloadable on the

website


For opportunities, either with your company or that you know of:• 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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Mayo Clinic - Special Purpose Processor Development Group has posted a limited tenure Systems Engineer position on the INCOSE Job Board


Importance of SE

to

Emerging New Engineers

Why SE?


What is a System?

This definition implies that:

• All parts are necessary &

• They need to be linked for the system to work

It does not require parts to be physical.

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


What is Systems Engineering?

Systems Engineering is an interdisciplinary approach and

means to enable the realization of successful systems.

It focuses on defining customer needs and required

functionality early in the development cycle, documenting

requirements, then proceeding with design synthesis and

system validation while considering the complete problem.


All Encompassing Definition

Systems engineering is the glue

that holds all components of a

solution together in a successful

whole.


What are those Components?

• Manufacturing• Software• Safety• Human Factors• Reliability• Maintainability• Logistics Support• Training• Disposability

• Environment• Electronics• Structure• Materials• Durability• Architecture• Cost• Schedule• Availability• Etc.

Chapter Overview8 May 2008North Star Chapter Who Cares?

• System advocate or proponent

• System shareholder• System owner• System user(s)• System architect• System acquirer• System developer• Services provider• Independent Test Agency

• System administrator• Mission planner• System analyst• System support• System maintenance• System instructor• System critic• System competitor• System adversary• Etc.

The Stakeholders


ISO 15288 Systems Engineering 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

Project Planning Project Assessment Project Control

Decision Making Risk Management Configuration Management Information Management

Enterprise EnvironmentManagement

System Life Cycle Process Management

Quality Management

Resource ManagementInvestment ManagementSupply

Acquisition


International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)

• INCOSE 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.

• International Activities:

– 2009 International Symposium, July 19-23, 2009, in Singapore

– 2010 International Symposium – Summer 2009 in Chicago



Bill Waite

Bill Waite holds a B.S. and M.S. in Technology Education with an emphasis in engineering from the

University of Wisconsin, Stout, and an Ed.S. from the University of St. Thomas in Educational

Leadership and Administration.

Prior to joining the teaching staff at Wayzata High School in the fall of 2006, he taught a variety of

engineering related courses at Richfield High School for 5 years.

Bill currently teaches Principles of Engineering (POE) and Civil Engineering and Architecture (CEA).

Under his guidance, 72% of POE students and 70% of CEA students earned college credit during first

semester which will be applied to their future engineering undergraduate degree.

Chapter Overview 12 March 2009 North Star Chapter 1 2009 Program Theme Practical Applications of Systems Engineering Emphasis – The Program Life Cycle.

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