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
I have more than 25 years of experience in managing large-scale defence projects. I would be able to instill awareness and raise the profile and professionalism of systems engineering in Region VI and beyond. In the last two years, I have worked with the Region VI Chapter Presidents to address members’ issues and developed better working relationships with the Region VI Chapters through mutual support and participation of conferences. Looking ahead, I would like to continue to promote systems engineering as a professional discipline in the region. Having wide contact from the industries and academia in the region would permit me to bring systems engineers from diverse background together to promote best practices in systems engineering.

Working together we can develop a systems engineering body of knowledge to enhance the profession in Region VI

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YEOH Lean Weng is Director of Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence Development and Defence Systems Architect of Defence Science & Technology Agency. He also holds concurrent appointment as Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director of Temasek Defence Systems Institute at the National University of Singapore. He received his Bachelor (with Honours) and MSc degrees from NUS in 1983 and 1987 respectively. He further obtained two Masters (with distinction) in 1990 and a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering in 1997 from the Naval Postgraduate School. He attended the Programme Management Development Course at Harvard Business School in 2003. He received the National Day Public Administration Medal (Bronze) and (Silver) in 2001 and 2008, and the Defence Technology Prize in 1992, 2004 and 2007. He has extensive experience working on large-scale defence engineering systems. As a systems architect, he played a key role in developing the Enterprise Architecture for defence applications. He developed systems architecting methodology for masterplanning and defence transformation. He has published several papers on Enterprise Architecture, experimentation methodology and Integrated Communications Architecture.

He is currently Vice-President of the INCOSE Singapore Chapter.

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