2004Chapter Meetings & Events

INCOSE International Workshop 2004
January 24-27 2004

Portland, Oregon, USA 

Product Family Engineering  

February 19, 2004 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Ray Jorgenson

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA  KIRKWOOD (KTOS)

This presentation covers an overview of a system engineering development approach that encourages and facilitates product family engineering. It explores many of the concepts of true “sharing” of engineering definition between projects, with particular emphasis on system engineering analysis disciplines and how these disciplines have been tailored to specifically address product family engineering.

National Engineers Week (NEW)

February 22-28, 2004

This years NEW theme is:  "New Faces of Engineering."
During National Engineers Week we recognize the new generation of engineers who are turning ideas into reality.

For a final report on NEW 2003

For more information on NEW, go to http://www.eweek.org/

A new resource this year is the Local Activities Forum web page

Object Oriented Systems Engineering Methodology (OOSEM) Tutorial

SANFORD FRIEDENTHAL LOCKHEED-MARTIN

INCOSE Chair of Object Management Group (OMG) & Design Systems Interest Group (DSIG)

Saturday, March 27, 2004 9 am - 5 pm
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA  KIRKWOOD (KTOS)

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The OOSEM method utilizes a top down systems approach, in conjunction with Object Oriented (OO) concepts and adaptations of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) to model systems-level requirements and design.  A major goal of OOSEM is to exploit object oriented techniques for specifying and designing complex systems, and to ease integration with object-oriented methods for software engineering. Early applications have shown promising results. This tutorial will introduce participants to the OOSEM method by describing basic object-oriented concepts, system level activities, and how UML is adapted to address system level concerns. Important concepts and issues will be illustrated by application to a sample problem.

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Virtual Reality Applications Center Presentation and Tour 

Friday, 23-April-2004
Iowa State University, Howe Hall Virtual Reality Applications Center 
Ames, IA

Please RSVP to Ray Jorgensen at rwjorgen@rockwellcollins.com or
(319)295-2615 if you plan to attend. 

Our designated car-pool site is at the Rockwell Collins C- Avenue complex at the west end of the lot from Bldg 112, or NE of the Recreation Center.

Itinerary

1:30 pm Depart Cedar Rapids
4:00 pm VRAC Presentation
5:00 pm VRAC Tours/ Social Hour & Food
6:00 pm Conclude and Return
8:30 pm Arrive Cedar Rapids 

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Compliance Mapping of Industry Standards to the RC-TCP Using a Requirements Database 

TONY THOMPSON ROCKWELL COLLINS

INCOSE Heartland President

May 19, 2004, 5:30-7:30 PM
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA  KIRKWOOD (KTOS)

FREE White Paper...

The growth in quantity, variety, and merging of industry standards, process capability models, regulatory requirements, and customer request has inundated many Original Equipment Manufactures’ (OEMs) process groups. Customer requests for objective evidence corroborating capability and maturity of documented internal design and development processes are necessary to demonstrate compliance to these source requirements.  This paper discusses Rockwell Collins’ approach to manage these changes using a requirements database to assist projects in tailoring Enterprise standard design and development processes and processes assets to meet the customer requirements.

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Lunch Meeting with INCOSE Heartland BOD

Time: 11:30 - 1:00

Date: May 10th, 2004

Location: Granite City Food & Brewery (Corner of Collins Road and 1st Ave.)

FT-WAB Fault Tolerant Wireless Avionics Bus
Mr. Jorge Buenfil Rockwell Collins

Wednesday, June 24, 2004 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA  KIRKWOOD (KTOS)

This presentation provides an overview of the system engineering challenges to create a wireless avionics data bus for military and civilian aircraft, and the need to expand the ARINC 763 standard.

14th Annual International Symposium

June 20-24 2004

Hosted by INCOSE Region III

Toulouse, FRANCE

Theme : Managing Complexity and Change 

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Bye Month - Happy Holidays

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Estimating Systems Engineering Cost with COSYSMO Tutorial

Ricardo Valerdi
University of Southern California Center for Software Engineering

September 25th, 2004

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA  KIRKWOOD (KTOS)

COSYSMO is a candidate tool for  industry, government, and academia for Estimating Cost of System Engineering

o COSYSMO is being developed around EIA/ANSI 632 (Managing SE Development) and ISO 15288 (Managing SE Life Cycle)

o Parametric Model to Estimate System Engineering Costs

o Covers Full System Engineering Lifecycle

o Focused on use for Investment Analysis, Concept Definition Phases Estimation and Trade-Off Analysis

o Builds on the success of COCOMO Suite: COCOMO and COCOMO II

o COSYSMO v1.21 will be available

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Requirements Management Software (RMS) Trade Study Presentation and Rock Island Arsenal Tour

Thursday,  October 14th, 2004

Stephen L. Morford

Battlefield Maintenance Systems Engineering Team

Register Here

NOTE: Valid driver’s license or picture ID will be required to enter gate must be US Citizen.  Spots are limited to the first 25 so register today to reserve your spot!!!

http://www.ria.army.mil/riahome_hg.htm

Itinerary

8:00 am	Our designated departure site is at the at  KIRKWOOD TRAINING CENTER (KTOS), located in Cedar Rapids , IA. (please arrive early - 7:30 am)
11:30 am	RMS Trade Study Presentation & Lunch
1:00 pm	Rock Island Arsenal Presentation and Tour by Stephen L. Morford Battlefield Maintenance Systems Engineering Team
4:00 pm	Conclude and Return
6:00 pm	Arrive KTOS - Cedar Rapids, IA

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INCOSE Heartland Banquet

"The Roosevelt" Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA

Bye Month - Happy Holidays