INCOSE IS 2007 - Panel Details

Systems Engineering:
Key to Intelligent Enterprises

San Diego, CA June 24 -28, 2007

Panel Details

Technical Panels

Panel 1.1.0

Can We Have Systems Resilient to Natural Disaster Events and/or to Terrorist Attacks? A Debate on the Issues

Abstract:

During the past few years, natural disasters including the major earthquakes in Pakistan, the Tsunami floods of Indonesia, and the hurricanes and destruction in New Orleans, LA and the Gulf Coast region of the United States have caused major loss of life, injury and significant loss of property.

During the same period, insurgent attacks in Iraq, subway bombings in London, fire attacks on the city of Paris, and continued threats of terrorists throughout the world have placed life at risk.

Terrorism is the systematic use of violence and force as a means of coercion through fear and intimidation. As we have seen since World War II and experienced first hand since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the calculated murder of political personalities has given way to the random killing of innocent people and civilian populations. Natural disasters are perhaps even more threatening. Are the systems under development and already built resilient these kinds of events? How can the discipline of systems engineering assist in preparing for, responding to, recovering from and mitigate against the risks of natural disasters and terrorist events.

Since September 11, 2001, INCOSE through its Anti-Terrorism International Working Group (ATIWG) has focused the principles, techniques, and practices of systems engineering on how to reduce and eradicate international terrorism. We are taking this opportunity to expand emergency preparedness efforts to natural disasters as well.

Through the ATIWG sponsoring of panels at previous INCOSE symposia (2002-2006), writing papers for publication (2003), a tutorial (2004), and working group activities, the systems engineering community has discussed the application of collaborative engineering environments, simulation and modeling, religion, system solutions to defend against terrorism, psychology, and root causes of terrorism to address the vulnerabilities of systems as well as the attack responses to threats. This panel continues the INCOSE application of systems engineering to these international problems by discussing the recovery and resiliency of society and the systems it builds to natural disaster events and terrorist attacks.

Moderator:

W. Mackey, Systems Engineering Solutions and University of MD

William Mackey, Ph.D., J.D., President of Systems Engineering Solutions, is also an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland University College. He attended the U.S. Naval Academy and has B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from the University of Pittsburgh and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received his Ph.D. in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and his J.D. from the Washington College of Law, American University.

Dr. Mackey has more than 35 years experience in scientific research, engineering, and management applied to homeland security, aerospace, energy, transportation, systems integration, and law. He has held a number of progressively responsible management positions, including leadership of 120 professionals involved in systems engineering, telecommunications and networking, office information systems, and major systems development in the CSC Systems Division. He was recently Vice-President of Professional Services, Vitech Corp.

Dr. Mackey is a member of both the District of Columbia and the State of Virginia legal bars. He has served on several INCOSE WG/IG's and was Chairman of the Systems Engineering Applications Technical Committee from 1995 to 2001. He served as the INCOSE Technical Board Chairman from June 2001 to June 2004. He chartered the Anti-Terrorism International WG within INCOSE in October 2001. He was facilitator of the INCOSE panels on Anti-Terrorism at INCOSE 2002 in Las Vegas, NV, INCOSE 2003 in Washington, D.C, INCOSE 2004 in Toulouse, France, and INCOSE 2006 in Orlando, FL. Dr. Mackey is also Chair of the INCOSE Fellows, having served as Vice-Chair 2005-2006.

Dr. Mackey recently led the development of a biometric-based Pedestrian Border Crossing Prototype intended for use by the Department of Homeland Security. It is presently being fielded at the San Ysidro border crossing in the United States.

Panelists:

J. Carl, Mosaic Renaissance International

Dr. Joe Carl recently retired from Harris Corporation where he worked as a systems engineer for more than 20 years. Before that he served in the United States Air Force for 25 years, which included an assignment as the Chief Systems Engineer on a billion-dollar program to modernize the avionics equipment on the F/FB-111 fleet. He founded Mosaic Renaissance International in 2005 in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

Dr. Carl was the 2004 President of the INCOSE Chesapeake Chapter and is a Co-Chair of the INCOSE Anti-Terrorism International WG (ATIWG); he is a member of the INCOSE Object-Oriented Systems Engineering Methods Working Group, and a task leader for the INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook v.3 Working Group. He is also a tri-athlete, a blue-water sailor, a master scuba-diver, an amateur classical guitarist, and one of 30,000 people who completed the 30th Marine Corps Marathon on October 30, 2005.

S. Jackson, University of Southern California

He has spent most of his career in systems engineering on military, space and commercial aircraft products. During the last few years he has focused on system resilience, the characteristic of a system that makes it unlikely to experience a catastrophic failure.

He is author of the book Systems Engineering for Commercial Aircraft, published by Ashgate Publishing Limited in 1997. He has also authored many papers on systems engineering for both INCOSE and the AIAA. He is an associate editor of the journal Systems Engineering.

Scott has a master's degree in fluid mechanics from the University of California in Los Angeles, a bachelor's degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Texas (Austin), and a bachelor's and master's degree in Liberal Arts from the California State University in Long Beach.

Within INCOSE Scott is the Associate Director of the Public Interest Sector of the Technical Leadership Team and the chair of the Resilient Systems Working Group.

J. Long, Vitech Inc.

Mr. James Long is CEO and Chief Methodologist and former President of Vitech Corporation, and the developer of the system engineering support tool CORE�. He has been a performing systems engineer and innovator since creating the first behaviour diagrams (then called Function Sequence Diagrams) at TRW in 1967. He played a key technical and management role in the maturing and application of that system engineering process and technology at TRW and Vitech.

Mr. Long's 45 years of engineering, systems engineering, and management experience include positions at Allison Division of General Motors, TRW, TITAN Systems, and Vitech Corporation. His engineering experience includes assignments in flight test engineering, electric propulsion space trajectories, air defense, ballistic missile defense, undersea surveillance, satellite surveillance systems, and military C3I systems.

Mr. Long has undergraduate and graduate engineering degrees from General Motors Institute and Purdue University and was selected as an Eminent Engineer by Tau Beta Pi, the honorary engineering scholastic society in recognition for career achievement in engineering.

A member of INCOSE since 1992, Mr. Long served as president of the WMA Chapter, represents Vitech Corporation on INCOSE's Corporate Advisory Board (CAB), is co-Chair of the Anti-Terrorism International Working Group, and is also an active member of the Modeling & Tools Technical Committee. Mr. Long is also an INCOSE Fellow.

Jerry Nolte, Systems Engineer, Northrop Grumman Corporation

Dr. Jerry Nolte has been a Systems Engineer at Northrop Grumman for the last 19 years. He has been involved in the requirements definition, development, verification and validation, and operation of major systems for over 20 years. He has also consulted on definition and implementation of Systems Engineering/System Life Cycle processes. He has been a member of INCOSE for over ten years, and is currently active in the Antiterrorism International Working Group. He received a B.A. from Mankato State College in Mathematics in 1966, an M.S. in Physics from University of New Hampshire in 1970, a Ph.D. in Physics from University of New Hampshire in 1974, and an M.S. in Management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980.

S. Sutton, Northrop Grumman TASC

Stephen J. Sutton, P.E. is a Technical Director at Northrop Grumman Information Technology TASC. He holds B.E.E. and M. Eng. (E.E.) degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Engineer Degree (E.E.) from George Washington University.

Mr. Sutton has more than 39 years of experience in systems engineering and analysis, enterprise and system-of-systems architecture, and management for telecommunications, information, and intelligence systems. He has held program management, lead systems engineering, and line management positions.

Mr. Sutton has served INCOSE as President of the Chesapeake Chapter, Member Board Representative from Region V, and co-chair of the Anti-Terrorism International Working Group. In 2004, he led the development of the INCOSE Members Guide to Benefits, Services, and Products, an INCOSE product on CD. He currently is the INCOSE Corporate Advisory Board Representative for Northrop Grumman Information Technology TASC.

Currently, Mr. Sutton applies systems engineering principles to strategic planning and capabilities development for DoD and Intelligence Community clients. He also sits on the Systems Engineering Advisory Panel for the systems engineering curriculum at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

C. Tulodieski, Northrop Grumman Corporation

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Panel 1.2.0

Heading Down a New Track: Growing an SE Practice in a Big, Bureaucratic, Legacy Enterprise

Abstract:

After over 100 years of traditional design and construction, the rail industry is now tailoring Systems Engineering processes to cope with the complexities of its capital projects. This industry is attempting to accomplish in ten or fifteen years what has taken aerospace and defense 50 years to achieve---- that is, to embed an SE approach into the fabric of its business. Four panelists will share how their big, bureaucratic and very conservative organizations are transforming to meet today's challenges. They will describe how they are dealing with the driving forces of system interoperability and dynamic technologies and the restraining forces of severe SE competency shortages and institutional barriers to cross-disciplinary teamwork. They will share how they are changing their contracts, design documents and procedures, and how they are adapting design tools and approaches to deliver successful projects and improve life-cycle systems performance. These are the early chapters of an entire industry in flux.

Moderator:

C. Ericsson, New York City Transit

Collette Ericsson, P.E., is currently a Principal Engineer for New York City Transit (NYCT) Commissioning Services where she supports staffing, training, knowledge transfer and process tailoring of Systems Engineering to improve project delivery. Collette has worked to build NYCT's in-house SE practice from its inception in 2004 and is currently working through INCOSE to bring SE awareness to the transit industry (owners, consultants and suppliers) in the USA.

Collette has a diverse background in all stages of capital work, from planning through construction, delivering projects in energy, chemicals manufacturing, and infrastructure. Ms. Ericsson started her profession in San Francisco with Chevron Oil Company where she worked on refineries, gas processing plants and alternative energy plants in California, Hawaii, Utah, Louisiana, China and Japan. Ms. Ericsson also worked extensively in construction management of large commercial building complexes, research facilities and infrastructure, including water treatment plants, roads, utilities and rail loading facilities.

Her specialty experience includes risk management, program controls, environmental engineering and sustainable design and construction. She is a Professional Engineer licensed in California, New Jersey, New York and Florida and is a trained facilitator and Critical Incident Stress Debriefer. A graduate of the University of Alabama in Chemical Engineering, Ms. Ericsson's professional affiliations include APTA (the American Public Transportation Association), and CMAA (Construction Management Association of America). In her off-hours, she enjoys boating, going to art auctions and traveling with her family.

Panelists:

P. Brouwer, ProRail, The Netherlands

Paul Brouwer is a consultant at ProRail, the organisation responsible for supplying and maintaining the Dutch national railway infrastructure. After completing his MSc in Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis and Management, Paul started his career at a small consultancy firm, where he cooperated to create some of the first system engineering based tender management and contract management strategies for road and railway infrastructure. In his current position, he is responsible (as a principal) for tendering smaller and larger (railway) infrastructure projects (from < � 1,000,000 to > � 100,000,000). At ProRail, he is involved in the development and application of SE knowledge within the tender process and the overall project management. He teaches in-house courses in Systems Engineering for ProRail.

Paul has been a member of the Dutch Chapter Board since 2002 and he was the Dutch Chapter President in 2005 and 2006. Paul is also the Chair of the Special Interest Group on Infrastructure in the Netherlands, which is currently developing a practical application of ISO 15288 and other systems engineering principles in the world of civil engineering, and he is a participant in the INCOSE Intelligent Transportation and Transit Systems Working Group.

K. Gharatya, London Underground, Ltd.

Kuldeep Gharatya is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer with over 10 years experience in metro rail engineering. Kuldeep has a wide range of experience ranging from working as a mechanical and electrical engineer focusing on improving rolling stock performance, train systems simulation engineer, a project engineer on the Jubilee Line Extension to being an LU business client. With this far ranging experience he became the Deputy Systems Engineer in 2001 taking over the reigns as the head of Systems Engineering in 2004.

He has a Masters Degree in systems engineering from University College London and is on the founding interest committee of the INCOSE Railway Interest Group (RIG) as well as being a member of the Intelligent Transportation and Transit Systems working group (ITTS).

B. Halliday, Network Rail

Brian Halliday has 35 years of wide ranging experience in the field of systems engineering. During the seventies, working within the Systems Design Group of Hawker Siddeley Aviation, he was involved in the design of the HS146 and A300 Airbus aircraft undertaking a wide range of safety, reliability, maintainability, and support cost studies for those designs.

Subsequently, he worked as RAMS Manager for Hunting Engineering, a major Defense Prime Contractor, and was responsible for those aspects on all of the Company's development projects, many involving complex high integrity systems. He also provided specialist support to external customers in the Defense, Aviation, Nuclear and Rail sectors.

In 1997 Brian joined Railtrack, now Network Rail, and applied his considerable experience as the Systems Engineering Manager on the $20bn West Coast Route Modernisation programme. A major achievement was the development of effective Requirements Management supported by a comprehensive suite of Railway System Capability models.

A. O'Neil, New York City Transit

As New York City Transit (NYCT) Chief Commissioning Officer for Systems, Anne O'Neil effectively serves as the Systems Engineer for NYCT. In this role, she is championing a five-year strategic plan to improve project delivery and long-term systems performance for capital projects.

Joining NYCT in 2002 as a Principal Communications Engineer, Anne served as the Communications lead for new subway expansion projects. She directed conceptual and preliminary design for all communications infrastructure (structured cabling, fiber and wireless networks) and system applications, including public address, customer information signage, closed circuit television cameras (CCTV), fire alarm/life safety and security, supervisory and data acquisition (SCADA), telephone/voice systems.

Ms. O'Neil began her career as a control systems engineering in the power industry. She continued working as an engineering consultant, however soon moved to the transportation industry, with the emergence of the ITS, intelligent transportation systems field. Her responsibilities have spanned the design and construction phases of projects - serving in technical engineering design, technical management and construction management.

Ms. O'Neil earned her B.S. in Electrical Engineering with honors from Tufts University and is a Professional Engineer (licensed in New York and Georgia). An active member of INCOSE and the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). In 2003, she was awarded SWE's Distinguished New Engineer Award.

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Panel 4.1.0

Requirements Engineering for Software vs. Systems in General?

Abstract:

Requirements Engineering is dealt with concurrently and largely separately by a software-based requirements engineering community anchored in the IEEE and by the INCOSE Requirements Working Group. Apart from such organizational issues, are there fundamental technical differences between Requirements Engineering for software vs. systems in general? It seems as though even functional requirements can mean something more general for a system including mechanical parts than for software alone. Quality requirements on safety deal with humans and their relationship with some real artifacts in their environment, so they cannot be dealt with by software alone. However, reliability of underlying software will be important in this context. While the internal structure of software will not normally be specified in its requirements, structure of a more general system may well be. These are just examples of what should be discussed.

With regard to intelligent enterprises, there exist defined methodologies for enterprise modeling. Much as any other complex system, an enterprise may be better understood through modeling. Once an enterprise is better understood, it may be easier to make it intelligent. Whatever technical system is to be developed in an enterprise, it needs to fit into. By connecting enterprise modeling and requirements engineering, the likelihood of such a fit is increased. For software development, such connections have been worked out and are part of defined methodologies, some of them based on object-oriented modeling. Are they applicable to the development of general systems?

The software-based requirements engineering community and the INCOSE Requirements Working Group have been slowly getting in touch with each other recently. This panel should help to discover more common ground and to exchange ideas on the commonalities and the differences of their respective tasks and methodology.

Moderator:

H. Kaindl, Vienna University of Technology, ICT

Prof. Hermann Kaindl joined the Institute of Computer Technology at the Vienna University of Technology in Vienna, Austria, in early 2003. In the same year, he was elected as a member of the University Senate. Prior to moving to academia as a full professor, he was a senior consultant with the division of program and systems engineering at Siemens AG Austria. There he has gained more than 24 years of industrial experience in software development. His current research interests include software and systems engineering with a focus on requirements engineering, and human-computer interaction as it relates to scenario-based design. He has published four books and more than ninety papers in refereed journals, books and conference proceedings. He moderated panels at several major conferences, including the INCOSE IS in 2004. He is a senior member of the IEEE, a member of the INCOSE and the ACM, and is on the executive board of the Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence.

Panelists:

R. Griego, Sandia National Laboratories

Regina M. Griego (formerly Gonzales) is currently a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National laboratories. At Sandia, she is a Program Integration Engineer in the Weapons Program Integration Department and provides early lifecycle Systems and Enterprise Engineering Support on a number of strategic projects. Her focus is on using modeling as a way to formalize requirements. Regina is the Assistant Director for SE Technical Processes on the INCOSE Technical Leadership Team and past president of the INCOSE Enchantment Chapter. She has a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering with a specialty in Requirements Engineering from NMSU, an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado, an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Arizona, and a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from NMSU.

M. Hause, Artisan Software Tools

Matthew Hause has been developing technical systems for almost 30 years. He started out working in the Power Systems Industry, and has been involved in Process Control, Communications, SCADA, Distributed Control, Defence and many other areas of technical systems. His roles have varied from project manager to developer. His role at Artisan Software Tools includes mentoring, consulting, sales presentations, developing and presenting training courses, and writing papers on Software and Systems Engineering. He has written a series of white papers on project management, Systems Engineering, and systems development with UML and SysML, which have been presented at INCOSE the IET, (formerly the IEE), BCS, ICSE, ESE, ECSI, MARC, Muretex, etc. He has been a regular presenter at INCOSE for many years as well as several other international conferences. He is a member of the IET, BCS and INCOSE.

C. Hood, HOOD Group

Since 1977, Colin Hood has been part of the evolution of the control systems from relay based systems, the Programmable Logic Controller (PLCs) up to modern software controlled systems. In various fields Colin Hood has been responsible for the analysis, design, implementation, testing and delivery of complex software systems. Colin Hood�s methods has always involved application of Requirements Management & Engineering, which explains his success at companies such as Alcatel, BMW, DaimlerChrysler, Hella, Interpolis and Miele. An expertise of Colin Hood is beside the improvement of processes within development departments, the support of the change process when implementing new methods or tools. This almost invariably necessitates a cultural change within the affected organisation.

M. Mannion, Glasgow Caledonia University

Prof. Michael Mannion is Professor and Dean of School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He has a BSc in Computer Science from Brunel University and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Bristol University. He has several years' software engineering industrial experience, is a former Chairman of the British Computer Society Special Interest Group in Software Reuse, served as a member of the British National Space Centre's Software Steering Group. His research interests include requirements reuse, product-line engineering, and engineering education. He has published more than 50 papers.

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Panel �4.2.0

Managing Rail Requirements: Case Studies Applying SE to Rail/Transit Projects

Abstract:

What represents the tipping point for a predominantly brick & mortar industry like rail/transit to finally adopt an SE approach? Some argue the industry's recent struggles to successfully implement software-intensive, technology-driven projects are a clear wake-up call to address requirements management in a systematic, disciplined way.

Attempts to manage requirements have yielded mixed results. Are business enterprise needs truly linked to project delivery goals? How will technical staff be convinced to shift their focus to user needs rather than pre-defining the solution? Can program managers see requirements management as their means to achieve schedule and budget goals? Case studies highlight attempts to transform an industry: lessons learned from mismanaged requirements - analyzing where the process breaks down; applying requirements management methods to support automating rail operations; novel techniques for triaging & tagging requirements engaging the whole project team.

Moderator:

M. Krueger, ASE Consulting LLC

Michael E. Krueger is the Principle ASE Consulting LLC. Mr. Krueger has been involved in ITS since the late 1980's, working as a consultant for a major transportation firm since 1993. Mr. Krueger has over 36 years of electronics experience from hardware and software design to large systems development. Mr. Krueger worked at Hughes Aircraft Co. Ground Systems Group in Fullerton, working on requirements development and process improvement activities. Since 1997, Mr. Krueger has been involved with Systems Engineering support and training to Caltrans and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Mr. Krueger developed the first Systems Engineering Training Course for ITS, This course became the basis for the current Systems Engineering course being taught through out the country for public transportation agencies. Mr. Krueger developed the Systems Engineering Guidebook for ITS, this seminal work is the first of its kind for the transportation domain. Mr. Krueger is an INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) and serves on the Certification Advisory Group. Mr. Krueger has been an INCOSE member since 1997. Mr. Krueger is the Chair of the Intelligent Transportation & Transit Systems working Group and the past President of the Los Angeles Chapter of INCOSE.

Panelists:

D. Chin, New York City Transit

Deborah Chin is a Design Manager for New York City Transit (NYCT) in the Systems Program Area. She has over 18 years in the transit industry, 10 of which have been in managerial capacity leading signaling projects that have progressively become more complex with software-intensive elements, such as the 63rd Street Connection, Automatic Train Supervision and Communications Train Control projects. Ms. Chin is a key advocate within NYCT in the education of and adoption of principles and processes for systems engineering in the implementation of all major systems projects. Prior to work at NYCT, Ms. Chin worked for several years in the Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering field. Ms. Chin is an INCOSE member since early 2006, and is an active member of the Intelligent Transportation and Transit Working group. She is also a member of IEEE. Ms. Chin holds a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester, and a Masters in Public Administration from City College of New York Baruch College. She is a Professional Engineer in the state of New York.

K. Gharatya, London Underground, Ltd

Kuldeep Gharatya is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer with over 10 years experience in metro rail engineering as currently serves as The Systems Engineer for London Underground.

Kuldeep has a wide range of experience ranging from working as a mechanical and electrical engineer focusing on improving rolling stock performance, train systems simulation engineer, a project engineer on the Jubilee Line Extension to being an LU business client. With this far ranging experience he became the Deputy Systems Engineer in 2001 taking over the reigns as the head of Systems Engineering in 2004.

In this present role he has overseen the development of the systems team, including Human Factors and EMC, into a core part of the Engineering Directorate. London Underground recognizes that SE will play a critical role in the successful delivery of the �30 billion modernization program. He is rising to the challenge of embedding systems engineering in both in LU and in the supply chain by focusing on the simple concepts that are essential to good SE. He has a Masters Degree in systems engineering from University College London and is on the founding interest committee of the INCOSE Railway Interest Group (RIG) as well as being a member of the Intelligent Transportation and Transit Systems working group (ITTS).

M. Irving, Atkins Rail

Mark Irving is a Railway Signalling & Systems Engineer. Since completing a Graduate Training Scheme with British Rail's Signalling & Telecommunication department in 1995, he has worked as a Signalling Systems Engineer on mainline & Light Rail projects. He initially specified, designed, tested & commissioned Electronic Signalling Control Systems on UK heavy rail infrastructure.

Mark has been involved in the transfer & development of German/Swiss train borne & trackside signalling technology into the UK environment. Recently, he has undertaken Requirements Management activities on mainline & underground railway infrastructure projects. He spent 18 months project managing the delivery of Safety Case activities associated with the introduction of system changes to Axle Counter systems on the UK's West Coast Main Line. Mark has delivered presentations to the IRSE (Institution of Railway Signal Engineers) and INCOSE in England, Europe & the U.S.

M. Moran, New York City Transit

Michael Moran is an accomplished Executive Information Officer with more than twenty years of experience in software development and maintenance. Mr. Moran is proficient in all areas of systems engineering including system analysis and design, quality assurance testing, and technical contract management. Mr. Moran is currently responsible for providing software quality assurance for the New York City Transit's Automated Train Supervision System, Communications Based Train Control and Public Address/Customer Information Screen, and Geographic Information Systems.

In addition to these major New York City Transit systems, Mr. Moran is also responsible for the maintenance of New York City Transits Rail and Bus Scheduling System. Prior to Mr. Moran's current responsibilities, he completed the implementation of New York City Transits Metrocard System which included the design and implementation of MetroCard Vending Machines.

P. Thomas, Parsons Transportation Group (PTG)

Paul Thomas is the Systems Engineering Manager for Parsons. He has over seventeen years' experience in the development and application of train control systems and has a strong interest and experience in the development and application of systems engineering and management to major railway projects. He is currently leading the specification of a strategic project that will enable London Underground to achieve greater operational flexibility and benefit through re-engineering its train delivery operations.

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Panel 4.3.0

Discovering a Strategy for Whole Systems Modeling

Abstract:

Practitioners actively involved in modeling systems today generally agree that our profession does not construct a unified model of a median system let alone an adequate, accurate and timely model of the larger, more complex systems, especially those in which humans are active elements. Ironically, knowledge about and technologies for modeling are progressing faster than their rate of adoption. This emerging gap indicates a lack of strategy and perhaps willpower. This panel/experiential workshop is intended to discover a strategy that is equal to the challenges ahead. This means a strategy that not only ensures languages, methods, tools competencies and standards of care but also one that motivates systems practitioners to be accountable for results.

Pre-conference Review Materials

Moderator:

J. Ring, Innovation Management

Fellow, INCOSE

1957 � 1977: Manager, GE Aerospace

1977 � 1987: Executive, Honeywell Computer Business

1988 - Present: Sole Proprietor, Innovation Management

Panelists:

Terry Bahill, PhD

Fellow, INCOSE

University of Arizona

Robert Cloutier, PhD

Stevens Institute of Technology

John Clymer, PhD

Professor, Cal State Fullerton

Ralph Hodgson

TopQuadrant Inc.

Carol Jacoby, PhD

Jacoby Consulting

Steve Krane

Parker Hannifin Aerospace

Ken Lloyd

Watt Systems Technologies

Richard A. Newman

Human Factors Engineer, Northrop Grumman Ship Systems

Joel Orr, PhD

Visionary, Cyon Research Corp.
Co-convenor, Congress on the Future of Engineering Software

Claudia Rose

CEO, BizBees

Joe Skipper, PhD

Senior Member Technical Staff, JPL

Rick Sorenson

Consultant, Vitech Corporation

Rick Steiner

Raytheon Corporation

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Panel 5.2.0

Tailoring to Transit: Case Studies Applying SE to the Rail/Transit Domain

Abstract:

When an industry with 100-year history of silo-based operational domains introduces widespread technological advancements, generating exponential numbers of new interfaces that cross organizational boundaries - how does it respond to this new risk? For the rail/transit industry, the answer has been to adopt a systems engineering approach to manage the risk!

Tailoring an SE approach for application to a new commercial domain has had its challenges. These case studies contrast and compare applications of SE across rail/transit projects to evaluate risk reduction and other benefits realized. Explore results across projects differing in scale, goals and asset type as well as in SE management strategies applied. Can the transit industry reach consensus and establish common systems engineering best practices, process and approaches? What tactics are being employed to facilitate shift in the cultural mindset to manage new interfaces and integration demands?

Moderator:

A. O'Neil, New York City Transit

As New York City Transit (NYCT) Chief Commissioning Officer for Systems, Anne O'Neil effectively serves as the Chief Systems Engineer for NYCT. In this role, she is championing a five-year strategic plan to improve project delivery and long-term systems performance for capital projects by employing a systems engineering approach.

Joining NYCT in 2002 as a Principal Communications Engineer, Anne served as the Communications lead for new subway expansion projects. She directed conceptual and preliminary design for all communications infrastructure (structured cabling, fiber and wireless networks) and system applications, including public address, customer information, closed circuit television (CCTV), fire alarm/life safety and security, supervisory and data acquisition (SCADA), as well as voice (telephone/intercom) systems.

Anne began her career as a control systems engineering in the power industry. She continued working as an engineering consultant, however soon moved to the transportation industry, with the emergence of the ITS, intelligent transportation systems field. Her responsibilities have spanned the design and construction phases of projects - where she has served in technical engineering design, technical management and construction management capacities. Anne earned her B.S. in Electrical Engineering with honors from Tufts University and is a registered Professional Engineer. An active member of INCOSE, she serves as co-chair of the ITTS Working Group. In 2003, she was awarded Society of Women Engineer's Distinguished New Engineer Award.

Panelists:

K. Gharatya, London Underground, Ltd.

Kuldeep Gharatya is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer with over 10 years experience in metro rail engineering as currently serves as The Systems Engineer for London Underground.

B. Hutchison, Atkins Rail

Bob Hutchison serves as Technical Director of the Atkins Stations Design Team for Metronet Alliance. Metronet Alliance has been formed to deliver the modernisation and refurbishment of 150 stations for phase one of the 30 year London Underground (LU) Private Public Partnership (PPP) agreements. Working closely in alliance with Metronet, these 150 phase one stations are to be delivered to London Underground during the first 7� years of the 30 year agreement. Metronet itself provides, maintains and manages the infrastructure, systems and trains for approximately two thirds of the LU network.

Bob is responsible for the engineering content of the Metronet Alliance design supply chain delivery and for the technical interface between the station works and other rail operations and systems. Due to the complexity and nature of the systems work undertaken, System Engineering and the provision of evidence based assurance is a principal requirement of the PPP agreement.

A. Kouassi, Parsons Transportation Group (PTG)

Alain Kouassi is a Systems Integrator with Parsons Transportation Group, based in New York City. He has more than 16 years of experience in the transportation industry, covering planning, systems engineering, systems integration and activation, and commissioning of several rail transit projects throughout the United States and Australia. His recent projects include the Newark Airport Monorail Extension, the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail System, the Southern New Jersey River LINE System, the Triangle Transit Regional Rail System, and the Newark City Subway Extension. Alain has served as an Expert Witness, testifying on rail systems integration matters, and has published and presented papers at several conferences in the United States, Canada, and Australia.

Alain received a BS in Civil Engineering, an MS in Civil Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and an MBA from the University of West Georgia. Alain is an active member of several professional organizations including the International Council on Systems Engineering, where he is currently serving as Assistant Director for Infrastructure in addition to being an active member of the Intelligent Transportation and Transit Systems Working Group.

D. Price, Parsons Brinckerhoff

Derek Price has been a member of INCOSE for 6 years and is secretary for the INCOSE UK chapter Rail Interest Group. He is Head of Systems Engineering for Parsons Brinkerhoff's European Rail division, specialising in the application of Systems Engineering Management to complex infrastructure projects. Responsible for providing technical leadership in systems engineering; and business development of PB's systems engineering and assurance services across Transportation Power Aviation, Defence, Nuclear, and Process Industries.

Derek has 20 years experience in the application of systems engineering, value and risk management to major infrastructure projects , and safety critical system assurance, approvals and acceptance. This comprised twelve year's experience in the design, implementation, assessment and project management of control and communication systems in the transport, power and defence industries; with foundations in telecommunications research and development.

He is actively involved in the development of strategies for applying systems engineering to infrastructure projects, both within PB and industry communities.

Derek's home town is Darlington in the North East of England, home of the world's first public passenger railway ((1825 Stockton - Darlington).

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Panel 7.2.0

Challenges and Successes in the Deployment of Systems Engineering in the Commercial World

Abstract:

Each panel will focus on his or her experience in deploying Systems Engineering in their industry and domain with an emphasis on successful techniques for handling the lack of acceptance and lack of history of SE in each domain. Each Panelist will, at least, address the discussion items: Is there a lack of acceptance of SE in your industry? Is SE practiced in your industry under a different title? Can SE be deployed by management edict and training or one has to employ diplomacy in dealing with internal engineering departments? Can SE practices be domain tailored without sacrificing the basic SE principles? Audience participation will be requested.

Moderator:

A.Jain, UTC/P&W

Panelist:

Bank of America

BMW

Sony

Baxter Healthcare

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Panel 7.3.0

SysML Early Applications and Lessons Learned

Abstract:

SysML is a general purpose systems modeling language that was adopted by the OMG in May 2006 (announced in early July). SysML is considered a key enabler to transition to model based systems engineering. The panel members will present what they have learned from their early experiences in implementing SysML from their diverse viewpoints, including end-user, tool vendor and academic perspectives. Topics will include:

End user perspective: Highlight industry experience on projects including What works, What methodologies are being employed, What is difficult, What is the response from the various stakeholders (customer, PM, software and hardware developers, testers) and What are suggested areas of improvement?

Vendor perspective: Highlight tool vendor experiences including What SysML features are most requested, What has been difficult to implement, How well does SysML integrate with UML, What are suggested areas of improvement?

Academia perspective: Highlight Academia experiences with SysML including Where does SysML fit in the curriculum and in research, What is difficult to teach, What is the response from students and faculty, What do you feel they are learning, and What are suggested areas of improvement (both from an educational perspective and a modeling language research perspective)?

The moderator will also stimulate questions that cross the various viewpoints.

Moderator:

S. A. Friedenthal, Lockheed Martin

Sanford Friedenthal is currently a Principal System Engineer for Lockheed Martin Corporation. His experience includes the system life cycle from conceptual design, through development and production on a broad range of systems. He has been manager for systems engineering responsible for ensuring systems engineering processes are implemented on the programs. He has been a lead developer of advanced systems engineering processes and methods including the Lockheed Martin Integrated Enterprise Process, the Software Productivity Consortium's Integrated Systems and Software Engineering Process, and the Object-Oriented Systems Engineering Method (OOSEM). Mr. Friedenthal also led the Industry Standards effort through the Object Management Group and INCOSE to develop a UML based systems modeling language called OMG SysML� that has recently been adopted by the OMG.

Panelist:

D. Brookshier, No Magic

Daniel Brookshier recently joined No Magic taking position of Chief Architect. He has been using UML in multiple international software development projects. Daniel has been MagicDraw UML user #14 since 1998. He has run multiple training courses covering UML modeling using MagicDraw. Daniel has impressive experience in Java development. He has been a consultant, speaker, author, and Java Geek since Java 1.0. Daniel is one of the core members at jxta.org and runs several open source projects. Daniel's latest book is JXTA: Java P2P Programming, but he also writes articles for java.sun.com and P2PJournal where he is an editor.

P. Obeid, EmbeddedPlus

Paula Obeid is President of EmbeddedPlus Engineering and focuses on strategic roadmap,operations and business development for the company. She has over 15 years experience in systems and software development, process improvement and business leadership. Paula is a certified Six Sigma expert. Paula's leadership at Embeddedplus has enabled the company to be a key contributor in the development of the SysML specification and brought to market a SysML solution for the IBM Rational Platform.

Prior to EmbeddedPlus, Paula was the Process Group Lead in the Aerospace Division of Honeywell. While at Honeywell, she helped develop and deploy Six Sigma to System and Software Engineers and develop a CMMI deployment strategy for the organization. Paula was also the Honeywell representative on industry organizations like SAE, helping to create standards for deliverable software and software quality. While at Honeywell she led a corporate initiative to standardize on a Model Driven Architecture utilizing Mathlab/Simulink for Systems Engineering Processes.

R. Peak, Georgia Institute of Technology

Russell Peak is Associate Director and Senior Researcher in the Product & Systems Lifecycle Management Center at Georgia Tech (www.pslm.gatech.edu) and R&D Director at InterCAX LLC.

He specializes in information technology and knowledge-based methods for modeling and simulation (M&S). His interests include product lifecycle management (PLM) frameworks based on open standards and knowledge representations that enable complex system interoperability. Applications include systems engineering and simulation-based design (SBD) in domains such as electronic packaging, airframe structural analysis, and systems-of-systems (SoS).

Dr. Peak originated the multi-representation architecture (MRA)-a collection of patterns for CAD-CAE interoperability-and composable objects (COBs)-a non-causal object-oriented knowledge representation. This work has provided a conceptual foundation for executable parametrics in OMG SysML and associated validation.

R. Steiner, Raytheon

Rick Steiner is an Engineering Fellow at Raytheon. He has participated in the INCOSE Model Driven System Design Working Group since its inception in 1994, focusing on pragmatic application of systems engineering modeling techniques. Mr. Steiner has given several tutorials on the subject of model driven system development.

As of this writing, Mr. Steiner is serving as Chair of the internal Raytheon Systems Engineering Technology Network. He has served as chief engineer/architect for several naval electronics programs at Raytheon, and led the application of the Object-Oriented Systems Engineering Method (OOSEM) for a naval combat system development program.

Mr. Steiner has been a key contributor to the requirements for SysML, and also the development of SysML specification. His main contribution to SysML has been the allocation chapter and the sample problem appendix.

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Panel 10.2.0

Integrating Systems Engineering with Program and Project Management

Abstract:

Program/project management and systems engineering teams must be tightly integrated or program risk skyrockets. Effective integration demands clarity of roles and underlying competencies, as well as mutually supportive processes, tools, and training. Generally, the best program/project managers have been systems engineers and the best systems engineers have been program/project managers. Career paths should encourage and enable that type of movement. The panel will highlight the diverse ways in which different organizations have approached integration between program/project management and systems engineering and will provide both an entertaining and informative discussion of the tradeoffs between those approaches. Give some thought to how you and your organization approach this topic today, then jot down some questions and bring them with you to the presentation for our panel to address. After you have heard the answers, you can decide how you will change the way you approach Systems Engineering and Project Management.

Moderator:

R. Ade, SAIC

Randy Ade is a Vice President in SAIC's Health Solutions Business Unit. Randy has over 28 years of experience in system development, system engineering and program management. Randy served in the US Navy and has held senior positions at HFSI, Bell Atlantic and SAIC, including, System Engineer, Program Manager and Line Manager. His engineering experience includes Electronic Engineering, Systems Engineering, Information Security Engineering, and Software Engineering for Federal, State, and Commercial customers. A member of INCOSE since early '90s, he has held numerous offices in the San Diego INCOSE Chapter and is the General Chair for IS'07. PMP Certified, he consults on large proposals and contracts ($3M to $500M) for SAIC's Health Solutions Business Unit. He reviews technical/contract performance on strategic and fixed price projects. He improves and implements Project Management training and tools.

Panelists:

H. Mooz, The Center for Systems Management

Mr. Mooz is a co-founder of The Center for Systems Management (CSM) and recognized thought leader having co-authored three editions of Visualizing Project Management (VPM) and the companion book Communicating Project Management (CPM). Both books integrate project management and systems engineering and are in current use in multiple university graduate programs. Mr. Mooz also authored Chapter 23 of the Wiley Guide to Managing Projects. Prior to forming CSM, Mooz made recognized accomplishments for more than twenty two years as a systems engineer, program manager, chief systems engineer, and as the deputy program director (satellite) for Lockheed Missiles and Space Company. In the course of his career Mooz earned many commendations and awards including the CIA Seal Medallion for excellence in Project Management training and the INCOSE Pioneer Award for integrating project management and systems engineering. Through his leadership at CSM, the company has trained thousands of project management and systems engineering professionals. Founded by Mooz in 1989, CSM is an employee owned company that provides training and consulting services in systems management, the integration of project management, systems engineering, and process improvement.

A. Pyster, Stevens Institute of Technology

Dr. Pyster recently became a distinguished Research Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology and the Stevens Director of the Applied Systems Thinking Institute. Previously, Dr. Pyster served in a number of executive and technical positions, including Senior Vice President and Director of Systems Engineering and Integration for SAIC, Deputy Chief Information Officer at the Federal Aviation Administration, Chief Technical Officer at the Software Productivity Consortium, a manager of systems engineering at TRW, and an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Among his accomplishments are establishing and operating the Federal Aviation Administration's information security program; directing the creation and application of three CMMs - the integrated CMM, Integrated Product Development CMM, and the Systems Engineering CMM; architecting TRW's early integrated digital environment; prototyping the spiral process for software development; and directing the creation and application of advanced methods to design real-time systems, reuse software, and specify real-time requirements. Dr. Pyster has a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Sciences from Ohio State University, is a distinguished Alumnus of the Engineering College of Ohio State University, has authored two editions of the book Compiler Design and Construction, and is currently Chair-Elect of the INCOSE Corporate Advisory Board.

D. Van Gemert, Booz Allen / UCI Ext

Dennis Van Gemert has 12 years of professional experience in Process Development, Systems Engineering, Project Management, Launch & Orbital Vehicle Design, Astrodynamics & Flight Mechanics, and Systems Architecture. He holds Master's Degrees in Aerospace Engineering and Project Management, and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP�). He has served on the Space Transportation and Systems Engineering Technical Committees of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and the Project Management Institute's (PMI) Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3) Leadership Best Practices and Capabilities Development Team. He currently serves as the Southwest Regional Ambassador for the PMI Aerospace & Defense Specific Interest Group. Dennis is also an Adjunct Instructor of Project Management at the University of California, Irvine | Extension, where he teaches Systems Engineering for Project and Program Manager's, Project Risk Management, Introduction to Project Management, and Management, Leadership and Team Building in the Project and Program Environments.

M. Wartenberg, ZeroBoundary / UCI

Marty Wartenberg is currently the Chief Inventor for the ZeroBoundary Corporation specializing in project and process management training and development. He is also adjunct faculty at the University of California, Irvine where he teaches project management and systems engineering. Prior to these activities, Marty was the Executive Vice President at Interstate Electronics Corporation (Division of L-3COM). In this role he lead large Aerospace projects for the Navy and Air Force. On a consulting basis Marty has lead medium size commercial system projects for several companies in the product development areas. He has published articles in GPS system technology, project management and is a frequent speaker at various technology conferences. He has a BSEE, MSEE, MBA and is a licensed Professional Engineer.

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Panel 10.3.0

Modeling the Enterprise: Case Studies and Approaches

Abstract:

Topics:� Eliciting and capturing the enterprise understanding

�� Methods and Tools for Representing the Enterprise

�� Case Study Examples and Results

Description:

This panel will present work that has been done modeling actual enterprises. They will discuss the approach taken to elicit, capture, and model an enterprise. The discussion will include rationale, lessons learned, tools, and techniques that helped them build a successful model. Results of their modeling will be presented including how the enterprise derived value from the model as well as the exercise of modeling the enterprise.

Moderator:

R. M. Griego, Sandia National Laboratories

Regina M. Griego (formerly Gonzales) is currently a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National laboratories. At Sandia, she is a Program Integration Engineer in the Weapons Program Integration Department and provides early lifecycle Systems and Enterprise Engineering Support on a number of strategic projects. Her focus is on using modeling as a way to formalize requirements. Regina the Assistant Director for SE Technical Processes on the INCOSE Technical Leadership Team and past president of the INCOSE Enchantment Chapter. She has a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering with a specialty in Requirements Engineering from NMSU, an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado, an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Arizona, and a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from NMSU.

Panelists:

R. Dove, Stevens Institute of Technology

Rick Dove is a Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology teaching graduate courses in Agile Systems and Enterprises. He is a founding partner of Kennen Technologies, and Principle Investigator for its DHS-funded Hardware Assisted Security project. He has run companies producing software, manufacturing machinery, fine wine, rapid manufacturing services, strategic planning services, and interim executive services. He has led engineering, R&D, IT, information security, sales, and marketing in a variety of companies. He was co-principle investigator of the 1991 project at Lehigh University that gave birth to the concept of Agile Enterprise, and led the subsequent Agility Forum's research and industry involvement activity. He is author of two books and over 175 publications. A full resume and publication list can be found at http://www.parshift.com/Files/PsiDocs/RkdBio.pdf.

S. Krane, Parker Aerospace

Mr. Krane has 24 years work experience in thermo-fluid sciences and engineering for a broad spectrum of large US corporations and academia. At Parker-Hannifin, Mr. Krane manages the technical evolution and certification of aircraft hydraulic systems. Parker-Hannifin pioneered the sub-contracting of this business, which traditionally (pre-1994) was accomplished by the aircraft manufacturer. Currently, Mr. Krane is focused on the development of the people and infrastructure needed to support this growing enterprise. Parker-Hannifin is composed of many "Product" Divisions distributed throughout the U.S. which must effectively collaborate to supply the integrated systems now being requested by airplane manufacturers in North America, South America, and Europe.

K. Lloyd, Watt Systems Technologies Inc.

Mr. Lloyd is the President and Sr. Software Architect of Watt Systems Technologies Inc. of Carmel, IN USA, a developer of COTS scientific and systems visualization software. His background extends over 30 years and includes the design of manufacturing processes and equipment for the electronic, chemical and plastics industries. Mr. Lloyd graduated cum laude from Butler University, Indianapolis with a BS degree.

J. Martin, The Aerospace Corporation

James Martin is a systems engineer at the Aerospace Corporation developing architectures for information systems and space systems. Dr. Martin led the working group responsible for developing ANSI/EIA 632, a US national standard that defines the processes for engineering a system. He previously worked for Raytheon Systems Company as a lead systems engineer and architect on airborne and satellite communications networks. He has also worked at AT&T Bell Labs on wireless telecommunications products and underwater fiber optic transmission products. His book, Systems Engineering Guidebook, was published by CRC Press. Dr. Martin is an INCOSE Fellow and leader of the Standards Technical Committee.

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Panel 10.4.0

U.S. ORD Systems of Systems Engineering Guide: Status Report & INCOSE Support

Abstract:

In May 2006, a task was issued by the U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology (DUSD (A&T)) to develop a Systems of Systems Engineering Guidebook. The Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) convened a small group of Government, Industry and Academia, and selected the Stevens Institute of Technology to lead the project. During the summer and autumn of 2006, the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) was honored to be invited to provide a global representation of the systems engineering community in support of the OSD writing of a Systems of Systems Systems Engineering (SoS SE) Guidebook.

On 22 December 2006 the draft SoS SE Guide, version 0.9, was released for review and use by the systems engineering community. Industry and academia have been asked to submit their comments as part of the effort to pilot the recommendations in the Guide. In 2007, OSD will be actively engaging a sampling of DoD SoS programs to pilot the Guide, especially with respect to the 16 OSD SE processes. The responses will become part of the first update to the Guide.

At this panel, OSD will present the background and motivation for writing the Guide. Both OSD and INCOSE will discuss their insights into the Guide. Looking to the future, the concepts and practices of Net Centricity, Network Enablement of Capabilities, and Semantic Web will also be discussed along with consideration of how they might be more deeply integrated into future versions of the Guide. Future opportunities for INCOSE to work more closely with OSD and collaborate on SoS SE will also be discussed.

Panelists:

OSD:
Kristen Baldwin, Deputy Director, Software Engineering and System Assurance, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Acquisition and Technology

INCOSE:
Dr. Charles Dickerson, Chair INCOSE Architecture Working Group (AWG)
Dr. Abe Meilich, INCOSE AWG Leadership Team

BAE Systems:
John Osterholz, new title in re-org, former Director of Architecture and Interoperability for the DoD Chief Information Officer

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C):
Dr. Steve Bratt, CEO W3C (invited)

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Panel 10.5.0

Cultural, Psychological and Motivational Factors in Risk Management: "Major Issues" or "Let's Not Go There"

Abstract:

There is abundant evidence that the biggest obstacles to effective risk management are psychological paradigms rooted in the organization's culture. These paradigms were present in the Challenger, Columbia and Chernobyl catastrophes. Consider the following examples:

When asked to name their top risks, program decision-makers confidently do so. When asked if the risks are in the database, a typical response is "no, that's not the type of thing we put in our risk management database."
Some individuals view risks as challenges; others fear their acknowledgement. Many engineers deny or don't communicate risks.
" Program managers wanting to present their program in a positive manner to management or the customer often downplay serious risks.

In the Time Magazine article "Why We Worry About the Wrong Things - The Psychology of Risk" psychology professor Paul Slovic explains, "there are two systems for analyzing risk: an automatic intuitive system and a more thoughtful analysis. Our perception of risk lives largely in our feelings, and most of the time we're operating on this system."

In evaluating a risk, the brain's most primitive part, the amygdala, acts first. It is not till later that the higher regions of the brain get the signal. This, explains Time author Jeff Kluger, is why "� we wring our hands over the mad cow pathogen that might be (but almost certainly isn't) in our hamburger, and worry far less about the cholesterol contributing to heart disease that kills 700,000 of us annually."

Intelligent Enterprises effectively employ risk management processes and tools to reinforce utilization of the higher regions of the brain over the primitive part.

Our panelists are among the world's most highly respected SE and Risk Management practitioners. They will characterize psychological, cultural and motivational inhibitors and describe key practices used by Intelligent Enterprises to accomplish Intelligent Risk Management.

Further information about this panel topic, and risk management in general panel, may be found at http://www.incose.org/practice/techactivities/wg/risk/.

Moderator:

J. Stein, Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corp

Acting Chair, INCOSE Risk Management Work Group (RMWG)
Risk Management SME, Terumo Cardiovascular System Corp.

Panelists:

A. Dolan, University of Toronto

Professor Dolan is COTA Fellow Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and Samuel Lunenfeld Associate Professor in Clinical Engineering, Coordinator of the Clinical Engineering Program at the University of Toronto. For many years, his research had been involved with the defibrillation and artificial heart field as well as with the technology of cardiovascular surgery and intensive care. More recently, Prof. Dolan has begun to consider the problem of technology evaluation and effectiveness.

Dr. Dolan's long standing involvement in international standardization for more that two decades now includes chairing the working group (WG) of the International Standards Organization (ISO), which is addressing risk management issues, including risk assessment, risk estimation, risk control and risk analysis for medical devices and is responsible for ISO 14971 Medical devices - Risk management for medical devices.

T. Gilb, Result Planning Limited

Tom Gilb is the author of Principles of Software Engineering Management (1988) and co-author of Software Inspection (1993). His book, Software Metrics (1976) coined the term and, was used as the basis for the Software Engineering Institute Capability Maturity Model Level Four (SEI CMM Level 4). His most recent interests are development of true systems engineering methods.

Tom Gilb was born in Pasadena CA in 1940. He moved to England in 1956, then two years later he joined IBM in Norway. Since 1963, he has been an independent consultant and author. His latest book 'Competitive Engineering' is a substantial definition of requirements ideas. Tom has guest lectured at universities all over UK, Europe, China, India, USA, Korea - and has been a keynote speaker at dozens of technical conferences internationally.

S. Jackson, University of Southern California

Scott Jackson is a Lecturer in the Systems Engineering graduate program at the University of Southern California. He is a Principal in the Center for Systems and Software at USC. Scott is constantly in demand to provide lectures and tutorials on systems engineering. Organizations include, but are not limited to: INCOSE, the ASME, the Chinese Society of Engineers, and the NASA Glenn Research Center. He has spent most of his career in systems engineering on military, space and commercial aircraft products. During the last few years he has focused on system resilience, the characteristic of a system that makes it unlikely to experience a catastrophic failure.

Within INCOSE Scott is the Associate Director of the Public Interest Sector of the Technical Leadership Team and the chair of the Resilient Systems Working Group.

G. Roedler, Lockheed Martin

Garry Roedler is a Principal Systems Engineer with Lockheed Martin Management and Data Systems (M&DS). He has 21 years experience in systems and software engineering processes, analysis, measurement, and teaching. Currently, he is the chairperson of the Systems Integration Process Review Board, focusing on process improvement. He successfully led the Systems Integration organization of M&DS to an unprecedented achievement of Level 5 ratings in 12 process areas of the Systems Engineering Capability Maturity Model.

At the corporate level, Garry represents M&DS on the Systems Engineering Subcouncil, where he has been the co-author of several internal standards and guidebooks for systems and software engineering processes, risk management, and measurement. Recently, he was assigned to a team of corporate engineering experts to author the Integrated Engineering Process (IEP) standard, which will become a compliance document for all of LMC.

Garry is very active in many of the external standards and technical organizations. In the International Council On Systems Engineering (INCOSE), Garry is a founder, director, and former vice president of the Delaware Valley chapter; co-chair of the Measurement Technical Committee; and co-author of the INCOSE Systems Engineering Measurement Primer. He represents Lockheed Martin and is the Head of Delegation on the US Technical Advisory Group for ISO software and systems engineering process standards. In this role he has been a key contributor in the development of ISO/IEC 15939 - Software Measurement Process and ISO/IEC 15288 - System Life Cycle Processes. Garry is also highly active in the Practical Software and Systems Measurement (PSM) initiative, on which he is a member of Technical Steering Group and was the project leader of the Practical Systems Measurement project. Other technical work includes being a member of the IEEE Standards Committee, in which he was part of the development and balloting groups for IEEE P1540 - Software Risk Management. Garry has made numerous presentations at conferences and published several technical papers.

Garry holds degrees in mathematics education and mechanical engineering from Temple University, and has completed extensive graduate work in computer science and business.

W. Siefert, Boeing

Bill Siefert has been practicing engineer in the military/aerospace industry since 1973. His career has included projects for both ground and airborne based equipment. His current duties include that of Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Risk Management for the Boeing Co. St Louis. He is member of the INCOSE RMWG. He also guest lectures on Risk Management for the University of Missouri, Rolla.

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Panel 10.6.0

Is the Systems Engineering Profession Quantitative Enough?

Abstract:

Systems Engineering (SE) is engineering, and as such it is perceived as quantitative profession. Nonetheless, consider SE to be an art with qualitative methods and intuitive approaches based on little evidence and quantitative data. What is the reality, and what are the possibilities?

We think that SE should be based on more quantitative methods, and would like to discuss ways to promote this direction by our discussion in this proposed panel. We will assess several SE aspects by assessing their quantitative/qualititative status. For each topic, we propose how to drive that aspect into more quantitative approaches & techniques. Each short presentation will be followed by participants discussion, to draw further ideas from the audience.

We consider the following key topics:

� System Architecting - Art or Engineering? -How can we quantify the quality of the architecture?

� Modeling & Simulation - as a central quantitative tool for system analysis, but a tool with drawbacks - What are the bounds of M&S?

� Quantifying Technical Management- How can we measure technical management? - How much SE is enough? - What is the return on investment?

� Capabilities of the Systems Engineer - How can we measure the skill level? - Identifying the Masters from the Journeymen.

� How can we measure the quality of the System Design?

Moderator:

A. Zonnenshain, RAFAEL

Dr. A. Zonnenshain, is currently the Deputy for Operations, Ordnance Systems Division, at RAFAEL - the Armament Development Authority of Israel. Dr. Zonnenshain is the president of INCOSE_IL.

Dr. Zonnenshain is a Ph.D. for Systems E