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

AI Explorer: Natural Language Applications

Nov 09, 2022 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM Eastern Standard Time

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AI Explorer events feature two brief (TED-style) talks on key Artificial Intelligence topics and allow time for questions and discussion by all participants.

Natural Language Applications

Date: Wednesday, 9 November 22
Time: 10:30 am - :11:45 am EST
Registration: https://events.zoom.us/ev/AvlzBmv7xwG0iP9J8ru1cyKsxFdtoUFXKml0RLKCOMcbHKbNVBCE~AggLXsr32QYFjq8BlYLZ5I06Dg

Our next AI Explorer event is just days away—register now so you don’t miss it. Get full details and register online at https://events.zoom.us/ev/AvlzBmv7xwG0iP9J8ru1cyKsxFdtoUFXKml0RLKCOMcbHKbNVBCE~AggLXsr32QYFjq8BlYLZ5I06Dg Two great talks on AI and Natural Language Applications: The importance of being important: NLP Text analysis to generate a book index This innovative application of AI and NLP shows how we developed software to automatically generate the index of a 384 page book, with a little human help. We learned about the opportunities and limitations, and developed the idea of importance, as a key in identifying index terms. Talk to Me: Large Language Models are Revolutionizing AI.

More details: www.incose.org/ai

Chapter Newsletters

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.

Connect

If you have any questions for us, get in touch: [email protected]. You can also get in touch with our Board of Directors.

To keep up with us, connect via:

LinkedIn: INCOSE-MGC group
Twitter: @incosemgc
Facebook: @incosemgc
Email list: Friends of INCOSE-MGC (for non-members—chapter members will be on our internal email list)

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