Abstract: 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.

This talk provides a perspective of systems engineering that you have probably never seen before and encourages you to think about systems engineering in new ways.

Dr. Joseph Kasser

Speaker: After a career as a practicing systems engineer for 50 years, a project manager for more than 35 years and an academic for more than 20 years, Dr Kasser has started a new career as a systems engineering mentor and coach.

He received the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Manned Space Flight Awareness Award (Silver Snoopy) for quality and technical excellence for performing and directing systems engineering. He was a United States Air Force (USAF) Office of Scientific Research Window on Science program visitor in 2004. He is an INCOSE Fellow, he served on the INCOSE Member Board, as an INCOSE Ambassador, founded INCOSE Australia as the Australian chapter of INCOSE, served as its first President, and has probably published more papers than anyone else in INCOSE International symposia and regional conferences.

Door Prize: 

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

Holistic Thinking: Creating innovative solutions to complex problems

By Dr Joseph E. Kasser

Cost: Free.

Agenda:

• 6:00 – 6:45 pm SE Table talk

• 6:45 – 7:00 pm Chapter Business Meeting

• 7:00 – 8:00 pm LECTURE