From:Hahn, Danny
Sent: Mon 11/5/2007 10:09 AM
To:'sfba@incose.org'
Subject: Monthly INCOSE SFBAC Meeting -- November 13, 2007 -- At Santa Clara University
Tuesday Evening Monthly Program -- November 13, 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:
Danny Hahn
Systems Engineer, General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems
Santa Clara, CA 95054
danny.hahn@gd-ais.com
Abstract:
The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is one technique used to aid the decision making process. It is described in the INCOSE SE Handbook, Version 2a, Section D9. Professor Thomas L. Saaty, an American mathematician at the University of Pittsburgh, developed the AHP in the 1970s. He developed it for Department of Defense contingency planning and refined it for a National Science Foundation study on rationing electricity to industries according to their contribution to the welfare of the nation. The theory matured while he was directing the Sudan Transport Study. If you need to complete a complex trade study and are having difficulty setting realistic weightings to your criteria, you should consider the AHP.
This presentation will be a simple demonstration of the published technique and will not discuss the theory behind it.
Bio:
Danny Hahn has a BSEE from the University of Illinois and an MSEE from the Air Force Institute of Technology. For the past 17 years he has worked for General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems in Colorado Springs, CO and Santa Clara, CA. He has held various positions there including project manager, systems engineer, and deputy program manager.
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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."
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