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Abstract:

Traditional systems engineering inclination is on cause-and-effect. When we turn a wheel, pull a lever, or flip a switch we expect certain outcomes.  This rules-based approach is where stimulus-response is expected as deterministic, well-defined, well-bounded, finite, and predominantly rigid in its nature.  If there is deviation from expected, there are simple systemic structures (logic gates) or simple rules (if-then-else) that provide optional courses of preplanned actions. Human intervention provides the intelligence and actions that are necessary for dynamic adjustment to a negative event (adversity, avoid loss); or, to detect and dynamically adjust to a positive event (opportunity, seek gain).  The now and future discipline of systems engineering (SE v2.0) has tools to transcend this cause-effect approach and effectively embrace the nondeterministic, the openly defined, the blurred-boundary, the highly combinatorial if not infinite, and the adaptable. Systems engineers must design solutions to adapt to predictable and unpredictable change in order for the system to remain viable in the face of adversity (loss-driven) and relevant in the face of obsolescence (opportunity-driven). In addition to cause and effect, SEv2.0 is systems engineering the conditions of the possibility.

Dr. Keith D. Willett

Speaker:

Dr. Keith D. Willett is a data scientist and enterprise security architect for the United States Department of Defense. He has a BS in computer science from Towson University, a MS in business/information systems from University of Baltimore, a MS in information assurance from Norwich University, and a PhD in systems engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology; and, holds (ISC)2 CISSP and ISSAP certifications. He is co-chair of the INCOSE Systems Security Engineering Working Group and an active participant in the working groups for Agile Systems, Resilient Systems, Systems Science, and the Future of Systems Engineering (FuSE).

Door Prize:  Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity by Jamshid Gharajedaghi

All registrants will be provided a number - which will be entered into a random number generator in order to select the winner.

Cost: Free.

Agenda:

• 6:45 – 7:00 pm   Member Meeting and Chapter Business Items 

• 7:00 – 8:00 pm    Lecture