From:Hahn, Danny A.
Sent: Wed 9/26/2007 9:58 AM
To:'sfba@incose.org'
Subject: Monthly INCOSE SFBAC Meeting -- October 9, 2007 -- At Santa Clara University
Tuesday Evening Monthly Program -- October 9, 2007
5:30 PM Social Half-Hour and Snack.
6:00-7:00 Talk followed by questions.
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Place: Santa Clara University, in Room 326 of the Bannan School of Engineering Building.
Directions, including Transit information is at http://www.incose.org/sfbac/Directions-to-SCU.html
From the main campus entrance on El Camino Real in Santa Clara, CA, stop at the visitors entrance booth and ask for a "Visitors" parking permit.
Say you are here for a meeting and that you are an invited guest of the Dean of Engineering. Park in the parking garage in the visitor's parking spaces or in any other available "Visitors" parking space.
Go to Engineering Room 326. Walk to the large three-story building that runs parallel to the parking structure. This is the Bannan School of Engineering Building. Room 326 is on the third floor on the Southwest side of the building. The Bannan Quad and front entrance is on the side facing West. If you have any questions, you may contact Campus Security at 408-554-4441.
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Speaker:
Amy D Sams, PhD.
Systems Engineer, Diagnostics Division
Hematology Abbott
5440 Patrick Henry Drive
5301-Area B
Santa Clara, CA 95054
USA ph: 408-567-3457
Amy.Sams@abbott.com
Abstract:
The easiest way to fascinate a systems engineer is to give them a simple little task that turns out to be complex, convoluted, and in need of a creative solution. What could be simpler than counting?.....that's right, counting......one, two, three....simple, right?
It is simple -- until you try to do it with living blood cells instead of marbles!
Once Mother Nature gets involved you have to deal with the complexity of natural variation, pathology, and five or six different engineering disciplines come to bear on the solution. Hematology is the science of blood and a fascinating interdisciplinary engineering challenge for systems engineers. Come discover the challenge!
Bio:
Amy Sams is a Systems Engineer at Abbott Laboratories in Santa Clara, California. She has been working in the medical device field, on hematology instrumentation for 16 years. Trained initially as a Scientist (B.S. Chemistry - University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire), she crossed over to Engineering in the late 1970's and earned her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1985. She started her career as a software engineer specializing in scientific data analysis for Spectra Physic's Autolab division before joining the hematology instrument manufacturer, Sequioa-Turner (Mountain View, CA), in 1991. The purchase of Sequioa-Turner by Abbott Laboratories in 1992 brought her many different opportunities including software management, requirements engineering, project management, design control process and quality systems management, as well as systems engineering roles. Thru it all, she remains strongly committed to inter-disciplinary communication and teaching.
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Food Donation: FREE for members; $4 for non-members. For more information,
contact:
Dana Anderson, 408-742-2286, (mailto:dana.r.anderson@lmco.com)
or
Danny Hahn, 650-966-2107, (mailto:danny.hahn@incose.org) or
Dorothy McKinney, 408-742-8790, (mailto:dorothy.mckinney@lmco.com).
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The mission of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), a non-profit professional society, is to "foster the definition, and practice of World Class Systems Engineering in industry, academia, and government."
The SF Bay Area Chapter presents thought-provoking monthly programs for its members and their guests. Learn about INCOSE at www.incose.org.