Vision for INCOSE

My vision for INCOSE continues to focus on improving the competitive advantage of our members in the global market place.

Continued ties between INCOSE and academia will ensure that education and training is relevant to the current needs in industry, and that academic research better anticipates and meets industry needs. INCOSE's efforts to date to host three levels of interchange among academics - deans, department heads, and faculty - are a major breakthrough that places us on that trajectory.

Our Corporate Advisory Board needs to expand its vision to not only have a desire to promote what is best for individual corporations and their industries, but they must also be promoters of the benefits of the trans-national and trans-industry nature of systems engineering. CAB representatives will have to help INCOSE obtain adequate resources to carry out its mission. This can take various forms such as: more corporate funding for member participation in INCOSE events and product development efforts; and establishing INCOSE as the lead organization with adequate budget and authority for cooperative international and national efforts that require substantial systems engineering expertise. This transition will have occurred when we see CAB companies competing to support systems engineers employed by their organization to represent INCOSE on these community endeavors.

INCOSE needs to expand its interaction with governments worldwide to establish the contacts and levels of trust to attract national resources that provide for education, training, and research in systems engineering that will advance the state of the art. We will have to engage key players from national research funding agencies worldwide to increase research, training, and scholarship funding in systems engineering programs that are identified with INCOSE.

These efforts are all about growth of INCOSE and its members. As this occurs, we should expect our numbers to increase and our operating structures to evolve to maintain and enhance the value of membership as evidenced by stronger member engagement and identification with INCOSE, an increased percentage of the membership contributing to important efforts, continued internal recognition of member contributions, significant increases in external recognition of member contributions, and multiple opportunities for innovation and creativity.

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Bob Kenley has been member of INCOSE since 1994. In 1999, he was appointed Chair of the Ways and Means Committee, and in 2006, he was installed as the Secretary of INCOSE. During his tenure as Ways and Means Chair, he advised the Board on the necessary bylaws and policy changes to meet the needs of INCOSE as it has matured as an organization. As Secretary, he has ensured that the organization has met its responsibilities to the membership by carrying out his duties, which include organizing board meeting agendas, publishing board meeting minutes, responding to letters, and validating member rosters for elections. He also has been serving as chair pro tempore for board meetings.

He also is serving as the treasurer of the INCOSE Foundation, a charitable organization with the goal of advancing the development and image of systems engineering through funded scholarships, research, and international forums.

He presented his first INCOSE paper at the 1994 Symposium and has attended all Symposia since 1998. He has authored or co-authored papers published in INCOSE International Symposia proceedings, the Conference on Systems Engineering Research proceedings, and Systems Engineering.

He currently is Chief Editor of INSIGHT, a quarterly publication of INCOSE.

He is an independent systems engineering consultant for advanced technology development efforts sponsored by the U.S. Departments of Defense and Energy. He was employed as a systems engineer by Lockheed Martin from 1981 to 1998, working on space and nuclear systems. His assignments were in Sunnyvale, California, and in Washington, D.C. as a systems engineering fellow of the Idaho National Laboratory on detail to Department of Energy headquarters.

Bob received an S.B. in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975, an M.S. in Statistics from Purdue University in 1979, an M.S. in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University in 1984, and a Ph.D. in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University in 1986. His doctoral dissertation, "Influence Diagram Models with Continuous Variables" was one of the seminal works in the field that is now known as Bayes Nets.

A complete CV is posted at http://www.kenley.org.

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INCOSE
I joined INCOSE in 2005. My first INCOSE position, 2005, was co-chair of the newly formed Commercial Steering Board, which role is to advise and support INCOSE’s Board of Directors on initiatives to reach out to the commercial systems communities. As a first task the CSB developed a strategy and specific implementation plans designed to help INCOSE achieve a more representative mix of commercial industry in INCOSE’s membership, products and services. This strategy now is being integrated in an update of INCOSE's strategy. The CSB is involved in major decisions and actions pertaining to the commercial community; and review progress of the commercial outreach initiative implementation with the BoD.

The CSB reviews, supports or develops actions pertaining to INCOSE’s projects, and will assist in developing priorities in the generation or adjustment of how INCOSE can better meet the needs of the commercial communities. It further works closely with the Corporate Advisory Board, Member Board, and Technical Operations Team in defining, executing and maintaining INCOSE’s commercial outreach implementation plan. Since IW07 I chair the CSB, amd this was followed by the appointment by the BoD as Director for Commercial Outreach at IS07.

Professional Career
2003-now:  SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research Manager Engineering Division, member of the Management Team and Programme Manager Technology Transfer & Valorization. SRON is a leading institute e.g. in sensor research. The Engineering Division develops and supplies high tech electronics, inclusive ASIC development, and cryogenic structural designs for state-of- the-art sensor systems. The role in tech transfer brings me into contact frequently with industry, ranging from multi-nationals, high tech OEM's and numerous SME's (small and medium sized enterprises).

1993 - 2002 Grasso Products, the Netherlands:   Manager Research and Development, Grasso, the Netherlands; world leading OEM of reciprocating compressors, compressor units and chillers for the commercial and industrial refrigeration market. Key issues have been outsourcing to and co-development with European and US suppliers and high tech product development with European universities and research institutes.

1987-1993 Volvo Car and NedCar, the Netherlands:   Project Manager engine and motor management system development. Manager Engine Development and Manager Adaptive Engineering, i.e. development and system design of engine, gearbox, suspension, brake systems, intake/exhaust systems. Numerous system co-development projects with large European suppliers.

1976-1987 NLR National Aerospace Laboratory, the Netherlands:   Project Manager fatigue life extension programmes and materials research (aircraft, wind turbines). Project Manager in international projects (Europe, US).

MSc Technical University Delft, 1976, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, subject: metal forming

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Vision for INCOSE
As a long time friend of INCOSE, I am pleased to give back to the community a share of what it gave me during all these years.

Many chapters and individuals already know me: from Sweden to South Africa, from Western chapters to Israel, it has been not only my duty as an entrepreneur, but also my pleasure to present Systems Engineering and INCOSE.

Beyond its technical dimension, Systems Engineering is the right organizational tool to gather various multicultural efforts within the same perspective to achieve common goals.

Our Region III knows a lot about multiculturalism. Our history teaches us that “all together, we are more than just the sum of each of us”. It also teaches us that building an effective multicultural environment is a long term task, requiring an everyday involvement.

As a representative of Region III, preserving that spirit locally, and bringing it to the global level of INCOSE will be my focus.

That’s how I want to contribute, serving the SE community across Region III by regular contacts and a problem-solving attitude with all our chapters, both the large ones and the emerging ones.

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Jean-Philippe LERAT is 43 and holds an engineering diploma in Computer Sciences.

However, his professional life started at the age of 16, when he sold his first software application, running on an Apple II. Then, he created a company with some friends, dealing with low-level software and hardware for robotics and telecommunication. He joined Apple Computer in 1988, in charge of Third-Parties Support. This experience brought to him the visceral vision that a pure technical performance is nothing: only the performance of the human being AND of the products, both hardware and software , working together, makes sense.

After this experience, M. LERAT joined several startups dealing with telecom, networks and software development for a wide array of applications in Defense, Space, Automotive and Energy. Over the span of ten years he assisted all types of projects by managing the collaboration between technical people and their software.

From 1996 to 2004, M. LERAT served as a member of the French teams at the ISO for several International Standards such as ISO12207 (Software), ISO15504 (Maturity Models) and ISO15288 (Systems). He did collaborate on other efforts such as IEEE 1220.

In 1999, M. LERAT started his own company, SODIUS, which is focused in services and tools for Systems Engineering, and especially in the field of Model Integration and Tools Interoperability.

M. LERAT became a member of INCOSE in 1998 and after a while, became an INCOSE Ambassador. He has made a lot of presentations and travel within Europe, both to well-established chapters and emerging ones.

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Vision for INCOSE

INCOSE finds itself in an exciting phase of broadening its outreach beyond the traditional focus of systems engineering into many different societies and cultures. At the same time, the INCOSE Region III has developed to be the largest region within INCOSE, still with many thrilling challenges before us such as differences in practices of systems engineering in the Region and many different languages just to name a few. My goal is to focus on even more outreach within our region, to encourage and foster the cross-chapter co-operation and re-use of the assets within our Region. Internally, at the INCOSE member board, I do not only intend to represent the specific requirements from our Region but to focus on a continued internationalization of INCOSE as a whole.

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Asmus Pandikow is a member of INCOSE since 1999. He is a founding member and the President of the Swedish INCOSE Chapter and currently elected as a INCOSE Region 3 representative.

Dr. Pandikow has a background of 17 years of software and systems engineering in Europe and the US, both in industry and academia. He works for the Syntell Group in Sweden, being the CEO of the German subsidiary. He supports clients in general management, market strategies, bid management, systems engineering, process development, and project management.

Before joining Syntell, Dr. Pandikow has started different companies in the areas of software and systems engineering and worked at the University of Linköping in Sweden on the proposals for AP-233 (ISO 10303-233) an European Commission funded projects, where he also earned his Ph.D.

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