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Welcome to The Cleveland-Northern Ohio Chapter

Welcome to the home of the Cleveland-Northern Ohio chapter of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE).  Come, join us as we explore the application of Systems Engineering to solve complex problems.  We seek to attract participation from the entire northern Ohio region, and build a robust organization that interacts in practical ways with local industry, government, and academia.

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Chapter Events & Projects

Current Chapter Events

Past Chapter Events

INCOSE Cleveland-Northern Ohio: April 2024 - Systems Engineering C-NO Café #1

North Olmsted, OH, USA

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INCOSE Cleveland-Northern Ohio: March 2024 Meeting

North Olmsted, OH, USA

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INCOSE Cleveland-Northern Ohio: October Chapter Meeting

Lorain, USA

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Chapter Supported Projects

SySTEAM Initiative

INCOSE Cleveland Chapter participated in a SySTEAM event in northeast Ohio in conjunction with the NSBE's STEM initiatives - https://www.nsbe.org/.  The event was held at CWRU on Satuday, December 9, 2023.  INCOSE members from NASA, Vitamix, and Klinger Engineering Services volunteered their time.  Vitamix sponsored a breakfast and engaged the students by having them perform demonstrations with blenders.  Anyone interested in helping out with future activities, please contact Bill Klinger (bill@kes1.net) or Carl Dister (carldister@ieee.org) for more information and to get involved.

Embedded Systems Certification Working Group - Currently on hold

The purpose of the Embedded Systems Certification Working Group is to work within the Chapter to establish INCOSE as a professional society that recognizes excellence in “Embedded Systems” Engineering, especially in the current era of Internet of Things interconnected as Systems of Systems with heightened importance of Cybersecurity practices from the Cloud to the Electronics.  With a goal of establishing an INCOSE specialty certification, experts from the field of Embedded Systems can share the proven Systems Engineering model and how it applies to their work making complex systems of systems comprising one or many interconnected Internet of Things.  The Working Group's Co-Chairs are Bob Scaccia and Roger Chaplin.

Community Resilience

For the past few years, the Chapter has supported members involved with the ReliabilityFirst and the Ohio State University Extension project to help communities become more resilient. The Project applies a proven systems-engineering appraisal framework to communities in an effort to benchmark current resilience efforts and highlight areas for improvement.  See the flyer (linked here) for details on the project, methods utilized, and expected results.  For more information reach out to the listed contacts, or visit the project page on the ReliabilityFirst website (linked here).

 

Past Regional Events

2023 Energy & Mobility Conference & Expo

The mission of The Energy & Mobility Conference & Expo is to draw together the brightest minds of today to address the challenges of tomorrow, in particular the need to transition to more sustainable and efficient energy sources. This transition will have ripple effects that radiate throughout the technology, systems and value chain infrastructure, creating unprecedented challenges and opportunities for those with an eye to the future. If you want to be a part of that future, join us in Cleveland to learn about the latest advancements in the fields of energy and mobility, while taking advantage of the opportunity to network and collaborate with industry leaders.

See: https://www.energyandmobility.org/

Where: Cleveland IX Center
When September 12-15, 2023

2023 Energy & Mobility Conference & Expo
2023

Chapter News

Press Release: INCOSE SySTEM initiative becomes SySTEAM

May 24, 2022, 00:00 AM by Christine Kowalski

The International Council on Systems Engineering
SySTEM initiative becomes SySTEAM

Press Release
SAN DIEGO (May 24 2022) – The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) created the SySTEAM initiative, with the aim to improve the quality of STEAM education worldwide, for all students, by changing the way in which educators, administrators, and other relevant stakeholders place value on and leverage ST/SE skills, and by establishing a community to advocate for holistic integration of ST and SE principles and skills into existing STEAM curricula and programs.

Our vision is for a world where every student will be equipped with the interdisciplinary skills they need in order to succeed in today’s globalized society. With the heartfelt conviction that the arts and humanities are a critical part of that interdisciplinary vision, we want to recognize the contributions those fields can offer systems engineering and systems engineering competency education as well as vice versa.

Putting the ‘A’ in SySTEAM is a way for us to tell our community and the rest of the world that we see the arts and humanities as being just as important as the sciences, and that we’ve embraced that perspective in our efforts.

With this name change, we hope to welcome an even wider diversity of participants from different academic, geographic, and personal backgrounds into our community.

“We at SySTEAM believe every student deserves the right and opportunity to a quality education,” said Caitlyn Singam, SySTEAM’s Program Director, and initiative lead. “To that end SySTEAM wants to help promote a more just, equitable, and transparent approach to education in general, and Systems Thinking/Systems Engineering competencies in particular, in a way that helps reduce disparities in educational quality, access, and competency attainment.”

All individuals interested in the SySTEAM Initiative and its mission are invited to join our community. The SySTEAM community is made up of volunteers from around the world, and is open to new members from all professions, experience levels, and nationalities, regardless of INCOSE membership status. If you have STEM or STEAM Ambassadors in your organization, please pass on this invite.

For additional information about SySTEAM, visit incose.org/systeam. Join SySTEAM’s free, public Discord community using the following link: bit.ly/3B8wL5t to become part of a vibrant global effort seeking to improve education for all.

INCOSE Media Contact:

Honor Lind, Director for Marketing and Communications, marcom@incose.net

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Chapter Circle Awards

The Cleveland-Northern Ohio Chapter of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) began organizing activities during the latter part of 2007, and received charter status from INCOSE during January 2008. As a result of our activities that first year, we received the Bronze level Chapter Circle Award.  We have received a Chapter Circle Award every year since.


2014, 2021


2009-2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020

 

2008, 2017

Find out more by visiting the  CLEVELAND - Northern OHIO Viva Engage  community today!

Viva Engage is INCOSE's social media platform for members. Use your INCOSE-issued Microsoft credential to login and join the conversation. INCOSE credentials are in the form of first.last@incose.net or first.last@incose.buzz.   

 
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