2021 INCOSE International Workshop (IW) After Action Report

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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2021-01-20: Lessons Learned from Fifty Years of Systems Engineering Experience

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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Looking back: 2020-The Year-In-Review: ….Looking forward:….2021-things WILL get better!

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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2020 INCOSE Chesapeake Chapter Annual Awards & Recognition Ceremony

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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Volunteers Needed: Maryland FIRST LEGO League

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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2020-11-18: Systems Engineering Evidence in Commercial Kitchens (Armstrong)

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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2020-10-21: A New and Sparse Method of System Architecting (Eisner)

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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