The International Council of System Engineering (INCOSE) released an exciting News Release announcing that the INCOSE Certification program has recognized the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and awarded them Academic Equivalency for their SYST 660: Systems Engineering Principles course. Read how two of our members helps make this happen.
Read MoreThe INCOSE Chesapeake Chapter participates in INCOSE's new international STEM Working Group. This new INCOSE working group has been established to better coordinate and promote future INCOSE-unique STEM initiatives across chapters. Read about the efforts so far.
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Read MoreDr Joseph E. Kasser explains how when systems thinking is applied to systems engineering, the artificial complexity is stripped away, the myths are identified for what they are, and systems thinking is shown to be a powerful tool that is used by many outstanding systems engineers.
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Read MoreThe 2021 Operating Plan is written for the Chesapeake Chapter of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE). This plan provides the detailed operating activities for the 12 month period beginning January 1, 2021 and ending December 31, 2021.
Read MoreOur 2021 INCOSE-CC president-elect Dr. David Flanigan, CSEP , discusses how an SE should have a principal technical (vertical) skill while able to explore different insights and perspectives as the (horizontal) connection to other skills.
Read MoreMr. Zane Scott explains that there must be good, sound engineering paired with solid, intentional systems thinking for us to have a solid foundation for what we do as Systems Engineers. Too many times we take systems engineering to be a process - a checklist of activities we can do that will aggregate to “systems engineering.” Throw in “models” and we get “model-based systems engineering.” Without the understanding and application of fundamental first principles we can walk through the steps of the Systems Engineering processes and miss the real rewards. Mr. Scott explores the first principles of the systems thinking leg of systems engineering.
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Read MoreDavid Fadeley, ESEP, and Myra Parsons-Gross, ESEP, reflect on a shared learning journey about technical leadership from the perspective of a group of emerging technical leaders.
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Read MoreThis February and March, Chesapeake Chapter volunteers again participated as independent sponsor judges at the Anne Arundel County Public Schools Science and Engineering Expo. Due to the Coronavirus, this year the entire event was conducted virtually. The judges reviewed projects from 6th through 12th grade.
Read MoreMr. Scott's tutorial covered an important soft skill set that many technical professionals often neglect, but its soft skills that often are the determinant between an undistinguished and a distinguished performing professional. The ability to not just communicate, but to do it well, is often a pivotal factor for career advancement.
Read MoreMs Zimmerman discusses the DoD's Digital Engineering Strategy and its implementation as seen by the OUSD(R&E) and explains its challenges and how this concept has added value. The DoD's Digital Engineering Strategy is to promote the use of digital representations of systems and components and the use of digital artifacts as a technical means of communication across a diverse set of stakeholders. The strategy addresses a range of disciplines involved in the acquisition and procurement of national defense systems, and it encourages innovation in the way we build, test, field, and sustain our national defense systems and how we train and shape the workforce to use these practices.
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Read MoreThe INCOSE Chesapeake Chapter recently hosted member Mike Pafford, Past Chesapeake Chapter President, to provide a live tutorial covering the topic of using Lean Startup and Agile Methods in performing Initial Project Planning activities. He also provided to attendees a plethora of reference materials to include, references to detailed literature on the topic, open source tool-sets for use, an array of initial planning templates, and other materials. Attendees left the tutorial well armed to attack their own projects.
Read MoreEvery interface is an opportunity to lose information, time, control and / or money through contention between stakeholders at either end. There are many issues surrounding Interface management and Paul Davies explores some of the characteristics of this missing material, and strings together some of the key concepts in best practice.
Read MoreGeorge 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 2 George details his efforts in putting this car through the Maintenance, Logistics, and Disposal processes.
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