Colorado Front Range Chapter

INCOSE Colorado Front Range is the local INCOSE chapter, covering the entire State of Colorado. Our purpose is to foster the definition, understanding, and practice of world class Systems Engineering in industry, academia, and government within the Colorado Chapter.

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Upcoming Events

Student Showcase - May 22nd, 2025

The INCOSE Colorado Front Range (CFR) Chapter is hosting an opportunity for systems students to expand your network, provides fresh questions and feedback to consider, and strengthen presentation skills.

Students are invited to share a short presentation (~5 mins) followed by brief questions and discussions. Successful past topics have come from student’s research or about a topic from a class project.

 A Showcase should target 1-3 slides highlighting the topic and often include items such as:

  1. the Significance of the problem or solution
  2. Key Context surrounding the area of study
  3. Innovations or Contributions of the area of study
  4. A Current Challenge or Potential Solution in the area of the problem
  5. Lessons Learned such as a Research Step, Tool or Technique that has significantly helped.

The next CFR Student Showcase is planned for Thursday, May 22, 2025, 6-7:30pm as a Hybrid Event.  The CFR Colorado Springs folks are gathering at ....  The CFR Denver folks are gathering at ...  Or, students and chapter members may participate virtually from ANYWHERE! 

Date: Thursday, May 22, 2025
Time: 6:00 PM/18:00 MT
Topic: Student Project Summaries highlighting Systems Engineering
Please join the INCOSE Colorado Front Range Chapter for virtual presentations by students of the INCOSE Colorado Front Range Chapter. Students will showcase their student projects highlighting the application of Systems Engineering principles and techniques.
In addition to the virtual option, you can network with other members of the INCOSE Colorado Front Range Chapter at the following locations: 
  • Lone Tree Library, 10055 Library Way, Lone Tree CO 80124 (2nd floor event hall)
  • Colorado Springs Library 21C, 1175 Chapel Hills Dr, Colorado Springs CO 80919
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Meeting ID: 243 400 310 158

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 Please contact Jim Adams, [email protected], if you might be interested in showcasing your topic. I can help with a template, some examples, and suggestions for having fun! The following are links to prior presentations:

Bob Dockstader

Adepapo Adeboyejo Presentation

Chris Johnson Presentation

Tony Moore Presentation

Claribel Wendling Presentation

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Recent Events

Colorado Front Range Chapter April 17th Meeting

Hello INCOSE Colorado Front Range Chapter!  Happy April!

We will be hosting a virtual event this month.  Our guest speaker will be Dr. Greg Parnell, who will be presenting on Trade-off Analysis.  Dr. Parnell is an INCOSE Fellow and is the Co-Chair of the Decision Analysis Working Group.

Please join us at 1730 MDT on 17 April 2025 at the Teams link below.  We look forward to seeing you virtually!

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Meeting ID: 248 758 793 849

Passcode: QN97YN32

INCOSE Colorado Front Range COS Area Outreach Event March 20th 2025

Hello, INCOSE Colorado Front Range (CFR) Chapter! Please join us for an in-person event on 20 March.
 
Feel free to invite a friend from an industry other than your own! This event has no formal presentation, but we will have guided discussions to gain insights into complex problems throughout diverse industries and explore how systems engineering approaches can help solve them.
 
And we will provide food!
 
If Colorado Springs is too far of a drive, no worries—the team is planning future events in the other areas around the Front Range.  
 
If you plan to join us, please RSVP so we can get a good head count for food. We hope to see you there!
 
What: INCOSE Colorado Front Range Meeting
Who: INCOSE CFR Members plus a guest from a different industry
When: Thursday, 20 March 2025 from 5:15-6:30 PM MDT
Where: Ruth Holley Library

INCOSE Colorado Front Range Chapter February 27th Virtual Meeting

Hello INCOSE Colorado Front Range!  Please join us at 1730 MST on 27 Feb for a chapter meeting. 

We will kick off a series of discussions along the theme of Better Decisions, Better Systems.

Come ready for fruitful conversation!

 

Wednesday, January 22, 2025 Virtual Event

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Time: 6:30 PM MT

Topic: Using MBSE to Perform Functional Analysis to Analyze Customer Requirements

The theory of Systems Engineering says we start at the top with customer needs, define requirements for the top level system in our product hierarchy, then decompose those requirements into the subsystem requirements at the next level down in the hierarchy- or does it? Some believe architecture work can begin once the requirements work is completed at any given level, but is that the only time that the tools and methods for architecture are useful? Have you ever been on a program where the practice of Systems Engineering aligns with the theory of Systems Engineering 100 percent? How do you cope with the deviations from the theory? What happens when the original requirement at the top is not an appropriate one that people should start with? This presentation will have a brief overview of systems engineering and then walk through an example of a top level requirement handed down from a customer to a program. We will use functional analysis to improve the requirement and answer the preceding questions.

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July 27th 2024 Colorado Front Range Chapter Picnic

The Colorado Front Range (CFR) Chapter provided a picnic lunch for its members. INCOSE Chapter members, Student members, and CAB Associates from across the Colorado Front Range gathered for fun and good eats at a park in Lone Tree.  Great conversations about INCOSE, jobs, and family were shared. 

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May 22nd 2024 Virtual Chapter Event

Our guest speaker will be Dr. Aaron Brown from the CSU Department of Systems Engineering. Dr. Brown will be presenting a topic on Humanitarian Engineering.

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April 25th 2024 Virtual Chapter Event

We will present a brief overview of IW 2024, and then one of our own, Dr. Jim Adams, will present a topic on Cost Optimization for Systems Engineers.

Guest Presentation: “Cost Optimization Framework for Systems Engineering: Looking Outside the Typical Systems Engineering Roles to Improve Outcomes”

  • This talk is based on the CSU SE Dept course, SYSE 573, Cost Optimization for Systems Engineers. This talk introduces the need for using an optimization framework in development projects, discusses a few cost and systems concepts that can be applied with an optimization framework, and provides a few examples to demonstrate the general approach.

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To Request Sponsorship for a Colorado activity, please fill out form and send to: Colorado Front Range President

Board Members

President

Claribel Wendling

 

 

 

Vice President

Brad Granderson

 

 

 

Secretary

Andrew Robinson

 

 

 

Treasurer

Kimberly Nunn

 

 

 

Membership Director

 

 

 

 

Communications Director

Casey Medina

 

 

 

Northern Colorado Area Director

Jim Adams

 

 

 

Colorado Springs Area Director

 

 

 

 Denver Area Director

Valkand Jhaveri

 

 

 

Webmaster

Harington Lee

 

 

 

 

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