Keep up with all the happening in our Chapter. Download our latest Newsletter for February 2021
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George Anderson, ESEP, takes a reminiscent look at owning and supporting a 1968 Jaguar XK-E fixed head coupe (FHD). A lesson in participating in the inner workings of a Systems Life-Cycle, particularly the Utilization, Support and Retirement Stages. Part 1 George details his initial impressions in putting this car through the Verification and Operations processes.
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Mark Kaczmarek, ASEP, our very own INCOSE Chesapeake Chapter Membership Director, and Dave Alldredge, ESEP, went to the INCOSE International Workshop for 2021 and reports out on their experience. Out of the 689 attendees -- 27 were from the Chesapeake Chapter. If you went and would like to provide us a report, we’ll add it to this post. Send your experience to communications@incose-cc.org.
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Dr. Eisner shared a system's engineer's retrospection of lessons to be shared with a future generation. Dr. Eisner has spent a lifetime of practice in the field of systems engineering. This lecture provided a "look back" over his 50-year career with his advice offered to the future generation of Systems Engineers.
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Keep up with all the happening in our Chapter. Download our latest Newsletter for Jan 2021
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Our 2020 INCOSE-CC president, Mark Evans, discusses the challenge of last year and the hope for the next. Despite an unprecedented year of adversity, the Chesapeake Chapter persevered and rose to the challenge. Next year will only get better as we increase our dedication to serving the local Systems Engineering professionals.
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The INCOSE Chesapeake Chapter Board of Directors wishes to thank our corporate sponsors, industry partners, lecturers, and volunteers for supporting the Chapter throughout the year. This Annual Awards & Recognition Ceremony is a culmination of another wonderful year of great events and services for the local Systems Engineering community.
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Keep up with all the happening in our Chapter. Download our latest Newsletter for Dec 2020
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INCOSE Chesapeake Chapter attended the recent reStart job fair held virtually on-line on December 10, 2020.
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Our 2020 INCOSE-CC president Mark Evans discusses how to deal with obsolete skills and staying relevant within the Systems Engineering profession. Systems Engineers find that their skill sets must be adaptive, change rapidly, and require constant updating in order to stay current in today’s continuously changing technology.
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Meet the winners of the 2021 INCOSE Chesapeake Chapter (CC) Board of Directors (BOD) election
President-Elect: Dr. David Flanigan, CSEP.
Treasurer: Mr. John Boccio, ESEP.
Communications Director: Mr. Michael S. Anderson, CSEP
To greatly aid our chapter’s efforts in promoting engineering education for youth, we are seeking interested people to help us partner with the FIRST LEGO League this spring. One of our chapter members is on the Maryland FIRST LEGO League Planning Committee and has asked if INCOSE could field a team of volunteers to help judge their middle-school events. The FIRST LEGO League is a great opportunity to share in experiences and inspire our young folks.
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Jim Armstrong, ESEP, takes us on a visit to the kitchen at the Inn at Little Washington in order to discuss how and why it was so different from other commercial kitchens. The resulting analysis of how systems engineering has significant relationship to the design of a wide variety of commercial kitchens is provided in this presentation.
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Keep up with all the happening in our Chapter. Download our latest Newsletter for Nov 2020
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Our INCOSE-CC president Mark Evans discusses the problem with the old maxim that “correlation does not imply causation” and how Mathematician and Data Scientist, Dr. Judea Pearl's new Book, The Book of Why, can help explore answers to this dilemma.
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Meet the Candidates for the 2021 INCOSE Chesapeake Chapter (CC) Board of Directors (BOD):
President-Elect: Term is 3 years (President-Elect, President and then Past President)
Mr. Peter Butziger —OR— Dr. David Flanigan
Treasurer: Term is 2 years
Mr. John Boccio, ESEP
Communications Director: Term is 2 years.
Mr. Michael S. Anderson, CSEP
Dr. Eisner presented his new method for architecting systems based on his new Book "Systems Architecting Methods and Examples." The four-step method: (1) functional decomposition, (2) synthesis, includes a classic cost-effectiveness analysis (3) analysis, (4) preferred architecture selection. Ground-rules for the overall procedure include simplification, weighted evaluation criteria, and considerations on tradeoff and interoperability.
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George Anderson applies the Systems Engineering Operations Process described in the INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook and ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288, and relives his flight of a historic Cessna 195 during some daunting operational challenges while piloting the thing for a short 70 mile flight.
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