Welcome to the North Star Chapter

The North Star Chapter of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) is a not-for-profit membership organization founded in Minnesota to develop and disseminate the interdisciplinary principles and practices that enable the realization of successful systems across diversified business sectors.

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Chapter Events

SE Lab Demo Day 006: Simulation-based digital twins with Ansys TwinBuilder

SE Lab Demo Day 006: Simulation-based digital twins with Ansys TwinBuilder

Monday, 10 February 2025 from 11:00am-12:00pm EST (16:00-17:00 UTC)   

Speaker: Vitor Lopes, Product Sales Executive at Ansys

‘Demo Days’ are a new webinar style offering intended to give the Tool Vendors in the SE Laboratory’s the opportunity to showcase their tool(s), offer best practices, and answer any questions that you might have live.

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Abstract: Operations and Sustainment (O&S) programs face increasing pressure to reduce costs, mitigate risks, and accelerate modernization. Hybrid Digital Twins present a groundbreaking approach by combining physics-based models and data to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows, and optimize asset performance. Integrating HDTs with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) unlocks new opportunities to improve virtual prototyping, validation, testing, and sensing for O&S programs.  What You Will Learn :The benefits of connecting HDTs to MBSE workflows for O&S programs. Key challenges in implementing HDTs, including scalability, interoperability, and accuracy. Techniques like reduced order modeling (ROM) and telemetry integration to achieve high-frequency, high-fidelity simulations. Practical applications of HDTs in virtual testing, validation, and sensing for legacy and modern systems. 

Bio: Vitor Lopes is a Regional Sales Manager at Ansys. Vitor is responsible for all Digital Twin business development activities in the Americas territory and has assisted customers across the various industries in the region to succeed on their Twin journey. He joined Ansys after 10+ years in the industry, bringing together different perspectives on the Twin technology from roles in R&D, Operations, Management and now Sales. He holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - Brazil and is deemed an SME in the Digital Twin space. 

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The North Star Mission

Share, promote and advance the best of systems engineering from across the state of Minnesota while working with a world view for the benefit of humanity and the planet.

The North Star Vision

To be the preeminent authority on Systems Engineering in our region through educating our practitioners and encouraging Best Practices through our relationship with INCOSE.

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Chapter Officers

Brendan Hall

President 2025

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Katherine Garvey

Past President 2024

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Roz Dolid

Secretary/Past-President

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Mike Keyes

Treasurer

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Taconna Mhoon

Director of Communications

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Ron Hannig

Director of Industry

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Soniya Mantri

Membership Director 

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Udhaya Kumar Dayalan

Director of Academia and Government
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Steve Untz

Past President 2023

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Sean McCoy

Past President

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Paul Frenz

Past President, ESEP

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John Palmer

Past Treasurer

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Webmaster 

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Eileen Arnold

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