Chapter Overview 16 April 2009 North Star Chapter 1 2009 Program Theme Practical Applications of Systems Engineering Emphasis – The Program Life Cycle.

Chapter Overview16 April 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

John Palmer, Chapter Co-President

• 7:00 PM – The Process for Interface Identification & Description

Mark Elpers

• 8:30 PM – Adjourn


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Chapter Calendar

A note on attendance

INCOSE Events

Chapter Organization

SE Certification

Chapter Web Site

Job Opportunities

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

16 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

Xcel Energy

12 November – SE in Requirements Development

Honeywell

13 December – Annual North Star Holiday Party

Place - TBD

2009 Meeting Calendar

Chapter Overview16 April 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

Only One Day Left to Register!


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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 who 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.

PIZZA

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Many thanks, your response so far has been most helpful


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INCOSE Events

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

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

Loughborough, UK

April 20 – 23, 2009: INCOSE/Systems & Software Technology Conference

Salt Lake City, Utah

April 28, 2009: Accelerating Innovations in Medical Care

Southfield, Missouri

June 15 – 17, 2009: International Engineering Systems Symposium

MIT, Cambridge Massachusetts July 19 - 23, 2009: INCOSE International Symposium

Singapore

Chapter Overview8 May 2008North Star Chapter

Chapter Overview16 April 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.


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 published shortly

• 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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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

Enterprise EnvironmentManagement

System Life Cycle Process Management

Quality Management

Resource ManagementInvestment ManagementSupply

Acquisition


An Early System Specification• Genesis 6:13-16

So God said to Noah, “... make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. Make a roof for it and finish the ark to within 18 inches of the top. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks…”

Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION ®, Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.

If Systems Engineering is good enough for God, it is good enough for us!



Mark Elpers

Mark Elpers' 22-year career has spanned the disciplines of systems engineering, HW design, test and continuation engineering in the telecommunications, semiconductor, defense and medical industries. Mark was graduated from the University Of Minnesota in 1985 with a BSEE. He is an INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) and holds 9 US patents. Mark is currently working as a Principle Product Engineer in the Hardware Architecture group of the Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management (CRDM) Division of Medtronic.

Chapter Overview 16 April 2009 North Star Chapter 1 2009 Program Theme Practical Applications of Systems Engineering Emphasis – The Program Life Cycle.

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