Midwest Gateway Chapter

Welcome to the Midwest Gateway Chapter

Welcome to the Midwest Gateway Chapter of INCOSE. We are based in the St Louis region, from Rolla to the Metro East. The Midwest Gateway Chapter of INCOSE was founded in St. Louis in 1992. Over the years we've hosted the INCOSE Symposium and the Conference on Systems Engineering Research (CSER), and been the home chapter of national and regional INCOSE leaders.

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2025 Board of Directors

President: Mike McCarthy, Paragon Technology Group
President-Elect (Vice President): George Sconyers III, Boeing
Secretary (2025/2026): Emily Orwaru, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Treasurer (2024/2025): Lou Pape
Director (2024/2025): Dr. Mary Malast, Leonardo DRS
Director (2024/2025): Chris Smith, Boeing
Director (2025/2026): John Thompson
Director (2025/2026): Geo Sconyers
Past President: Mike Franco

Contact the MGC Board of Directors at [email protected].


Upcoming Chapter Events

Speaker Event

When:  Thursday, Mar 13, 2025

Where:  Sports Cafe, 3579 Pennridge Dr, Bridgeton, MO, 63044

Who:  TBD

INCOSE Midwest Gateway: Spacecraft on Wheels: Boeing's Lunar Roving Vehicle

St. Louis
6300 James S. McDonnell Blvd
Kirk Kittell
[email protected]

Enter the Building 100 parking lot from Airport Rd.

Resources

Presentation (without media): 2022-10-27_lrv_4-3.pdf

Presentation (with notes pages): 2022-10-27_lrv_4-3_notes.pdf

References used for the presentation: 

Parking

Please park in the visitor parking spots at Building 100. Once you turn into Building 100, turn right/east for the parking lot.
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Registration

Note (Oct 25): the registration page is still open. If you're not a Boeing employee, there is a chance we can't get you a visitor badge for the Oct 27 event. Go ahead and register, but also send us an email at [email protected] so we can check it out. Sorry for the trouble, but there is some security screening involved.

Please register for the event at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spacecraft-on-wheels-boeings-lunar-roving-vehicle-tickets-432252578097. Registration is free and open to all (not limited to INCOSE members), but we need you to register so that we can provide you a required Boeing visitor badge at the door. (Boeing employees, you can use your work badge.)

About the event

The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) was developed by Boeing for Apollo missions 15, 16, and 17. Each LRV mission allowed astronauts to travel farther, bring more scientific equipment, and return more samples to Earth than the walking missions. The LRV looks simple, but the "spacecraft on wheels" enabled the major scientific discoveries of Apollo. In honor of the 50th anniversary of Apollo 17 (December 1972), learn how the LRV was engineered, how it was folded into the Lunar Module like origami, and how to operate the vehicle like an astronaut. 1972 model year vehicles are hard to find, but Artemis editions are coming soon.

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Speaker

Kirk Kittell is a systems engineer at Boeing, working on aircraft health management systems. Before working on aircraft, he worked on the Orion Launch Abort System at Orbital Sciences and in the Mission Evaluation Room at NASA Johnson Space Center on Space Shuttle missions STS-124 and STS-126. He has a BS and MS in Aerospace Engineering from University of Illinois and an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis.

Directions

The event will be held in the auditorium of Boeing Building 100 at 6300 James S. McDonnell Blvd. in St. Louis.

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Chapter News

New Chapter Members - 2025

Irwandi Kardjana, Boeing, Jan 5
Robert Reinke, Intelligent Information Technologies, Jan 15

New Chapter Members - 2024

Matthew Trainor, Leonardo DRS, Jan 9
Bradley Jones, Jan 11
Ethan Bandick, Leonardo DRS, Feb 27
Alexander Hawkes, Mar 21
Aditya Akundi, UWM, May 3
Madelynn Frappier, Leonardo DRS, May 21
Hector Castelblanco, May 29
Kaylee Catlett, Jun 2
William Conrady, Boeing, Jun 2
Prithbey Dey, Jun 3
Ezechiel Ouedraogo, Jun 17
Braxton Schmedeke, Jun 19
Haley Spillars, Jun 19
George Sconyers, Boeing, Jul 3
Serge Krawczyk, Boeing, Jul 11
Seth Copeland, V2X, Jul 17
Thomas Vanhooser, Jul 24
Wade Wilson, Boeing, Jul 29
Tyson Prosser, Boeing, Aug 9
Amanda Baker, Cummins, Aug 13
Jared Blatsioris, Purdue University, Aug 20
Tracey Feldhake, Sep 4
Xorge Hernandez, Sep 5
Miguel Delgado, Peraton, Sep 9
Michael Malast, Boeing, Sep 10
Kyle Edwards, UL, Sep 12
Andrea Foutch, Sep 13
Reginald Robinson, Boeing, Oct 4
Wesley Freeman, Leidos, Oct 24
Geo Sconyers, Nov 7
Matthew Hollander, DRS Land Systems, Dec 5
Paul Mizwicki, Aclara, Dec 5
Jacob Kramer, Leonard DRS, Dec 11
Daniel Chikwendu, Wichita State University, Dec 21

The Midwest Gateway Chapter of INCOSE was founded in St. Louis in 1992. Over the years we've hosted the INCOSE Symposium and the Conference on Systems Engineering Research (CSER), and been the home chapter of national and regional INCOSE leaders. Many of our members are engaged in defense, biotech, connected devices, and academia. Most members are located in St. Louis and the surrounding area (from Missouri S&T in Rolla to Scott Air Force Base in the Metro East), but all are welcome to affiliate with us.

For more information about joining INCOSE, please visit the incose.org website: Join INCOSE. If you're not sure about joining yet, come out and visit us at one of our events.

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