Lymari Castro-Diaz shares how Design Thinking can be a powerful set of human-centered design techniques that systems engineers can combine with tools such as Lean Startup and Agile to quickly discover problems, and ideate solutions that are feasible, viable, desirable, and provide value to the organization.

Ms. Aleksandra Scalco, CSEP, explains how disagreements exist among professionals about remediation of control system vulnerability, mainly due to discrepancies in engineering practice, paradigms, processes, and culture. Her presentation introduces a new model and methodology for measuring multi-concern assurance through statistical uncertainty analysis of Likert semantic differential scales.

Dr. David Flanigan, CSEP, our incoming 2022 Chapter President, discusses how over the last two years, the world has had to adapt to different work and life practices during the pandemic, including our chapter and other systems engineering activities. How do we continue to adapt in the coming year?

The day-long tutorial on a Saturday in November 2021 presented by Casey Medina of Studio SE was a huge success.

Dr. Mark W. Maier, a Technical Fellow at The Aerospace Corporation, discusses the major lessons learned from conducting a large scale study of its next generation weather satellite constellation architecture. Among the topics discussed are the selection and primacy of value models, the concept of architectures as classes of system alternative, and variance as a measure of significance.