31-Oct-09 Through 12-Dec-09
INCOSE MG 2010 OFFICE ELECTION.
Nominations for chapter Midwest Gateway Board of Directors positions is now closed.
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27-Sep-09 Through
30-Oct-09
INCOSE MG 2010 OFFICE ELECTION.
The Elections Committee is currently soliciting nominees for our chapter
election. You will be getting an e-mail from our Chapter President about the
available opportunities on the Midwest Gateway Board of Directors. You will
also be able to read about the positions in our upcoming newsletter. Or you can
contact or Elections Committee Chairman, Chair Marcos Chu at
marcos.chu@incose.org.
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7-Aug-09 Through
27-Sep-09
INCOSE MG 2010 OFFICE ELECTION COMMITTEE FORMING
NOW. Be part of the future and make a difference in helping
our members elect our next generation of leaders. To be part of
the committee, send an e-mail to Elections Committee Chair Marcos
Chu: marcos.chu@incose.org. The committee plans to meet monthly
at Boeing Building 27A @ Lunchtime. |
8-July-09 Through
7-Aug-09
Presidents Message:
Congratulations to the MGC chapter of INCOSE for being a Silver Circle
Award recipient for 3 years in a row now (2006, 2007, 2008). That is quite an
accomplishment for a chapter of our size. It took a lot of hard work and
dedication of our membership to successfully execute last year's diverse plan
and meet the high expectations set out by the previous MGC Board. It is going
to be challenging to keep up this level of effort and make improvements to the
2009 MGC execution plan without active participation from a significant portion
of our membership.
Brian Beyer, MG Chapter President. |
29-Mar-09 through
8-July-09
Presidents Message: As I
mentioned earlier this year, I want to re-focus our MGC Board of Directors
(BOD) and our committees' efforts on the current members' needs and interests.
INCOSE, and the MGC chapter specifically, has a lot to offer our members in the
form of quality SE programs, presentations, member's knowledge, networking,
camaraderie, and more. The
rest of the story...
Brian Beyer, MG Chapter President.
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18-Jan-09 through
29-Mar-09
As the new president of the Midwest
Gateway Chapter of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE),
it is my pleasure to serve you in 2009. Bob Scheurer will be our VP (President
elect) for this year. He has served INCOSE in numerous roles and leadership
positions over the past 15+ years. We invite you to help us shape the future of
Systems Engineering together. Please feel free to contact Bob or myself if you
have any input to share, program ideas, or interest in joining a committee in
2009.
Brian Beyer, MG Chapter President.
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23-July-2008
through18-Jan-09
Hello INCOSE MG Members and
interested folks, We have started the year in great shape with our strong
participation at the FIRST Robotics St. Louis Regional Competition. Although
this year we have not sponsored teams like previous years due to issues in
getting our yearly budget approved in time, we had an opportunity to have a
INCOSE MG booth at the event. We also had Team 1706 that has been filmed by a
PBS crew come speak at our March membership meeting. There is a lot work to be
done to ensure we continue to support this worthwhile outreach activity that
enables students to see the value of systems engineering as they go about
building a robot in six weeks to compete in a given unique challenge every
year. The necessity for us to share the good news with the youth on processes
such as trade studies is more important today than ever since engineering now
operates in a global environment. It is necessary that we have processes that
allow us to evaluate all possible engineering solutions and be able to pursue
one that is the best alternative. Check out more info on our involvement on
FIRST Robotics in our
quarterly newsletter.
Marcos Chu, MG Chapter
President |
8-February-08 through
6-April-08
INCOSE MG is a great organization
with good opportunities to make a difference. Many have asked what INCOSE meant
to me thru those years, and I have finally came with this acrostic : 1)
Initiative . 2) Next Step getting involved is Outreach . 3) Creating an
environment of inclusion thru membership. 4 ) Outcome driven with membership
programs. 5) Special recognition to those involved. 6 ) Expect greatness from
leadership thru investing in leadership training. I hope this year I will be
joined by other members to take an INITIATIVE to do the NEXT STEP in getting
involved with the youth of today by volunteering to visit a K-12 classroom on
Engineering Week (www.eweek.org). Another opportunity to get involved is the
EYH (Expanding Your Horizon) conference this year which will be Monday, March
10 at SLCC-Meramec. They are still looking for women engineers and scientists
who can be on career panels to talk about their jobs to young women interested
in pursuing careers in math and science. Please do not hesitate to contact me
if you like to join me in this exciting opportunity. Get involved and
let’s kick some Asymptotes for the youth of America !!!!!
Marcos Chu,
MG Chapter President |
18-January-08 through
8-February-08
It is a humbling experience and a
honor to fulfill the role as President for INCOSE Midwest Gateway Chapter. As
we develop an implementation plan for the year, a famous quote by Theodore
Roosevelt came to me: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points
out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them
better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face
is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and
comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and
shortcoming; who does actually try to do the deed; who knows the great
enthusiasm, the great devotion and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at
the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly. Far better is it
to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by
failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much
because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
I look forward to working with everyone, to be there "marred by dust and sweat
and blood" as we forge ahead and share in the "glorious triumphs" to
come.
Marcos Chu, MG Chapter President |
6-June-07 through
18-January-08
I am pleased to inform our Midwest
Gateway membership that I have just received a letter from INCOSE announcing
that the Midwest Gateway Chapter has been recognized as a Silver Circle Award
Chapter based on our contributions and accomplishments in 2006. This
recognition is due jointly to the participation of our chapter membership and
to the efforts of our 2006 chapter officers; I congratulate you all. Mason
Myers, MG Chapter President
Mason Myers, MG Chapter President |
3-April-07 through 6-June-07
As we near the end of March 2007, I want to thank our
members for their participation in our membership meetings thus far. Dr.
Dagli’s talk in January on Methodologies for Understanding Systems of
Systems was very well attended and we had an enthusiastic group for Ralph
Lambert’s February talk on Applying Systems Engineering on a FIRST
Robotics Team Effort. Once again, I want to encourage our membership to feel
comfortable volunteering either ideas for future meeting program subjects or to
participate as a meeting program presenter. Please continue your outstanding
participation.
Mason Myers, MG Chapter President |
10-Jan-2007 through
2-April-07
Now that 2007 has arrived, I wanted
to take this opportunity to introduce myself to our Midwest Gateway INCOSE
chapter membership and to thank Bob Scheurer, our out-going chapter president,
and Bill Schoening, our program chairman, for orchestrating a very productive
year with many informative programs and speakers that were responsible for
well-attended chapter meetings. While I will work with our chapter board of
directors to attempt to maintain the high standards established by Bob and
Bill’s efforts in 2006, I want to encourage our membership to feel
comfortable volunteering either ideas for future meeting program subjects or to
participate as a meeting program presenter. The Midwest Gateway chapter belongs
to its membership and I welcome your ideas and participation as we go forward
into 2007.
Mason Myers, President-elect, 2007 |
4-Dec-2006 through 10-Jan-2007
COMMUNITY OUTREACH : K-12 - The Midwest
Gateway Chapter of INCOSE is proud to sponsor three teams in the FIRST Robotics
competition for 2007 with $250 cash awards each. (FIRST stands for: “For
Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology”. See
http://www.usfirst.org/ ) This sponsorship represents an ideal way for
captivating young minds on the excitement of technology and merits of Systems
Engineering at the impressionable high school age. Thanks to three of our
Midwest Gateway Chapter members, Lou Pape, Marcos Chu, and Teresa Camp for
their involvement with FIRST on their respective teams and competing for our
sponsorships. Let’s plan on watching them and their robots compete early
next year and wish them much success in the various competitions. |
23-Oct-2006 through 4-Dec-2006
COMMUNITY OUTREACH : K-12 - INCOSE
Midwest Gateway Chapter is pleased to announce support to FIRST Robotics teams
in the greater Midwest region. Midwest Gateway Chapter will be granting two
$250 grants to teams in the area who has at least one mentor in which is member
of INCOSE Midwest Gateway Chapter. Selection of teams to receive the award will
be based on commitment from the INCOSE member mentor in the immediate past year
of FIRST Robotics competition. Click here to download an electronic form in
Microsoft Word format. Deadline for submission is 11/16/2006. |
9-Oct-2006 through 23-Oct-2006
About the Midwest Gateway INCOSE Outreach
program: The Midwest Gateway Outreach Program is designed to foster
interest and new relationships between INCOSE and other organizations,
including other professional organizations and societies, academia, and
prospective members. Upon request, interested participants will be provided
additional instructions and systems engineering resources, including how to
work more closely with INCOSE or become a member of the Midwest Gateway
Chapter. Respondants are under no obligation to become a member of INCOSE.
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