Delaware Valley Chapter
Serving Systems Engineering professionals in the
Southeastern Pennsylvania, Northern Delaware, and Southern New Jersey areas

If you have a suggestion for a topic or you would like to present a topic please contact one of the officers.

Regional Events and Information
Ongoing listing of meetings / activities of interest to Systems Engineering communities in our region.

February 16 - February 19 Penn State: Engineers Week is a national celebration honoring the engineering profession. Several Penn State events are planned and designed to reach out to current and future generations of engineering talent. http://www.sgps.psu.edu/engineersweek/default.ashx

Registration is required. E-mail gvengin@psu.edu or call 610-648-3243 to register.
For more information on these programs, call 610-648-3243.

Tuesday, February 16

Grad School Test Drive 5:45 - 8:00 p.m. Main Building

Observe the first half of an engineering or information science course. Choose from:

• Applied Data Mining
• Engineering Analysis
• Economic and Financial Studies for Engineers
• Information System Architectures
• Computer Security

Prospective students should consider taking advantage of this opportunity by emailing gvengin@psu.edu or by calling 610-648-3243.

Wednesday, February 17

Student/Faculty Mixer 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Main Building Lobby

Prospective and current students are invited to join the engineering division faculty for appetizers and mingling.

Thursday, February 18

Engineering Division Lecture Series 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Main Building, Room 130

"How Good is Good Enough? The Ethical Significance of Your Answer"

Presenter: Keith Miller, Ph.D., Louise Hartman Schewe and Karl Schewe Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Springfield

Learn about the ethical significance of this question as it relates to software engineering.

Friday, February 19

Getting on the Right Track: A Panel Discussion 8:00 - 11:00 a.m. Main Building, Room 130

Hear from local experts on options for career advancement within engineering and technical organizations. Get advice on deciding which track is right for you - technical or management.

2009

INCOSE Region IV Autumn'09 Conference (codename RS09): Using the POWER of Applied Systems Methods, October 25-26, 2009

General Theme: Demonstrating the Power of Applied Systems methods in the energy sector, along with systems engineering tools and methods

This inaugural Regional Conference will be hosted by the our chapter in the Cleveland area October 25-26, 2009. As president of the Cleveland-Northern Ohio Chapter, I seek your assistance in publicizing this event. I ask that you help our Organizing Committee in spreading the news about this Conference by forwarding this announcment.

Please see the descriptive material and program details, which are on the RS09 conference website: http://www.incose.org/cleveland/RS09/RS09main.htm

A printable tri-fold flyer summary of the conference is available at the website for your convenience. Registration information is linked on the web-site.

Members of our chapter leadership, in collaboration with the Michigan and Finger Lakes Chapters, the Cleveland Engineering Society, and the Ohio Aerospace Institute, have been working on organizing this conference for a number of months, seeking to advance the aims of INCOSE and attract interest and members to our chapter. A special keynote address will be given by Dr. Harrison Schmitt, former US senator and Apollo 17 astronaut and scientist, on some "out of the box" thinking in relation to the complex problem of energy for societal needs. As you will see from the quality of high-profile speakers and program content, we have assembled a high-value program which focuses on state of the art Systems Engineering Methods and tools, and elevates the application of these SE practices on real-world complex problems, such as Power and Energy systems.

With your support and active participation, we are confident of a highly successful outcome for the benefit of INCOSE, the Cleveland technical community, and for all our chapters' membership. Please plan to join us for this exciting event, as well as the pre-conference dinner on Sunday, October 25.

The International Council on Systems Engineering - INCOSE
Spring 09 Conference
April 2 – 4, 2009

Hosted by INCOSE Region V Chapters at the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center (VMASC)
Suffolk Facility - VMASC West
1030 University Blvd.
Suffolk, VA 23435

Joe Krupa, Technical Program Co-Chair
Telephone: 803-952-7379
E-mail: Joseph.Krupa@incose.org

Dave Takacs, Technical Program Co-Chair
Telephone: 770-494-8950
Email: David.takacs@lmco.com

The conference theme for the INCOSE Spring 09 Conference is Systems Engineering – Affordable Success. It focuses on the means and tools to lead and create organizations that develop affordable systems. It is known that systems complexity has dramatically increased over the last two decades. It is therefore even more important to develop leaders and processes to more cost effectively track development costs, calculate complexity, and leverage known solution and techniques.

Papers in all areas of systems engineering leadership, green solutions, and complexity, cost, schedule, and performance are encouraged. All types of papers will be considered. Papers must be submitted in English, the official language of the INCOSE Spring 09 Conference. Students are especially encouraged to submit papers.

Topics and questions of special interest include, but are not limited to:

SE Leadership

How do cultural differences around the world affect the application of SE? How is information technology / knowledge management enabling or prevent the successful application SE? How has the integration of program management and SE elevated the role of systems engineering? How do you see information engineering affecting systems development?

Green Solutions

What are some SE lessons learned dealing with green solutions? Are there green modeling techniques which are applicable through out the world? Do we see new green modeling techniques emerging that apply to SE? What are some lessons learned when applying green solutions? What are you and your organization doing to foster sustainable development, re-use, zero-footprint and zero-emission system development?

Complexity, cost, schedule and performance

How do you calculate SE’ Return on Investment (ROI)? How have the application modeling tools applied to SE affected the system’s outcome and performance? How do you successfully deal with cost, schedule, and performance trade-offs?

webmaster@incose-spring09.org

Delaware Valley Chapter Presentations

Automated Specification Analysis by Walter Sobkiw paper . presentation

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Stevens Institute of Technology in cooperation with University of Southern California, presents CSER  http://www.stevens.edu/cser/
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Wed, 23 Mar 05
Southern New Jersey Sections
of the IEEE and AIAA February Meeting
Program: Electromagnetic Compatibility and Electrostatic Discharge Issues
in Modern Electronic Equipment: Diary of a Real Ghostbuster
Presenter: Dr. Louis F. Chiaro, Stockton College of NJ
Org.: Southern Jersey Professional Societies American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and IEEE Computer Society
Location:  Mays Landing Golf and Country Club
Flyer: iEEE March 2004

21-22 March 05

FAA Tech Center will host a 2-day course
Systems Thinking and its Applications  
Flyer - PDF

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03-04 March  2005 
32nd Annual Delaware Quality Conference
University of Delaware http://www.asqdelaware.org/asqdel_home.htm
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Wed, 23 Feb. 2005
Southern New Jersey Sections
of the IEEE and AIAA February Meeting
Proram: Can the U.S. Solve the Challenges of a Globally Competitive Engineering Marketplace
Presenter: Dr. Dianne Dorland,
Dean of Engineering, Rowan University
Meeting Flyer (PDF) ~ AIAA_iEEE Feb. 05 Meeting
Locaton: Mays Landing Golf and Country Club
Org. POCs:

• Joseph Burns 485-7148 (W), JFBurns54@ieee.org

• Rodney Guishard: 485-5878 (W)

• Philip Holmer: 485-7374 (W), pholmer@ieee.org

• Cathy Jaggard: 485-6063 (W), catjaggard@usa.net