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Mark Kaczmarek reviews Reece Hugh Lumsden’s book “The View from Here: Optimize your Engineering Career from the Start” This book "is essential reading for every engineering student or young graduate.” If you’re studying engineering at college or a newly graduated engineer ready to give it your all but you have way more questions than answers. This book will help.
Our 2022 INCOSE-CC president, Dr. David Flanigan, CSEP , talks about the end of 2022 - with the upcoming Gala and results of the Board elections.
Our 2022 INCOSE-CC president, Dr. David Flanigan, CSEP , talks about this winter for the chapter. With lots to do for the membership. Here’s what’s happening in the next few months.
Our 2022 INCOSE-CC president, Dr. David Flanigan, CSEP , talks about October as an important month to the chapter, with lots to do for the membership. Everything good happens in groups of three, so read what’s happening in October.
Our 2022 INCOSE-CC president, Dr. David Flanigan, CSEP , provides an After Action Report on attending the first live INCOSE International Symposium in three years., held in Detroit, MI.
Our 2022 INCOSE-CC president, Dr. David Flanigan, CSEP , talks about Getting Ready for Fall!
Our 2022 INCOSE-CC president, Dr. David Flanigan, CSEP , provides an After Action Report on attending the first live INCOSE International Symposium in three years., held in Detroit, MI.
Our 2022 INCOSE-CC president, Dr. David Flanigan, CSEP , provides some insight in attending the first live INCOSE International Symposium in three years., held in Detroit, MI at the end of the month,
Jose L. Fernandez reviews Dr. Howard Eisner’s new book, “Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: A Systems Engineering Perspective” Dr. Howard Eisner is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of INCOSE. He has 30 years of experience in industry and 24 years in academia. This book is the last of his 12 books dealing with systems engineering, project management, and other topics.
Our 2022 INCOSE-CC president, Dr. David Flanigan, CSEP , provides some insight in the effort to return to live meetings. As well as the merits of our Virtual Meetings. The board looks to continue adapting to the changing environments to serve our chapter membership.
Our 2022 INCOSE-CC president, Dr. David Flanigan, CSEP , provides some insight in the effort involved in developing an Operational Plan for the Chapter.
Mark Kaczmarek reviews Dr. Howard Eisner’s new book, “Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: A Systems Engineering Perspective” This latest book by Dr. Eisner spans the 5+ decades of his experience: 30 years in business as president or working for companies, and 24 years in academia at GWU – George Washington University. This is the 12th book he has written.
Our 2022 INCOSE-CC president, Dr. David Flanigan, CSEP , contemplates life after the Pandemic and the positive results of our online excursions.
Our 2022 INCOSE-CC president, Dr. David Flanigan, CSEP , shares how last year’s achievements will lead this year’s growth.
Our 2021 INCOSE-CC president-elect Dr. David Flanigan, CSEP , provides a summary of our Chapter’s survey from June 2021.
Our 2021 INCOSE-CC president-elect Dr. David Flanigan, CSEP , provides a simple process that has been successful for nine submissions to the International Symposium in the past ten years.
Stephen J. Sutton discusses how you can find systems engineering ideas, systems thinking, or the lack of such in the world outside of engineering.
Our 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.
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 2 George details his efforts in putting this car through the Maintenance, Logistics, and Disposal processes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Our INCOSE-CC president Mark Evans talks about increasing our community and influence by the having all our chapter members work towards increasing our overall membership.
Our INCOSE-CC president Mark Evans observes that Systems Engineers are, by their very nature, predisposed toward designing solutions to complex problems in order to serve humankind. He reviews some engineering triumpants throughout the ages and wonders, “what can systems engineering do to address the world-wide Covid-19 pandemic?”
Taras Mykytyn reflects on INCOSE-CC 2019 accomplishments that allowed the chapter to be awarded INCOSE International Platinum Circle and the President's Award for Outstanding Chapter.
Systems engineers are potentially the best candidates for being or becoming good troubleshooters. The INCOSE Handbook identifies maintenance as a technical process. Within this framework fault identification or troubleshooting is included as a sub-activity. Troubleshooting is a form of problem-solving that requires experience and often special skills like forensic engineering. George has some great stories about using Systems Engineering while troubleshooting. [image from AB Electrical & Communications Ltd — https://www.abelectricians.com.au/ - used by permission]
Mark Evans talks about INCOSE-CC plans and some upcoming impacts we see happening during this COVID-19 pandemic crisis.
Mark Evans wants to know, “The Chapter achieved the ‘Platinum’ Chapter award in 2019 for an unprecedented fourth year in a row. Do we really need to change anything?”