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.

Bronze Chapter Award 2004
2004
Bronze Chapter Award 2004
2005
Bronze Chapter Award 2004
2020
Bronze Chapter Award 2004
2021
Bronze Chapter Award 2004
2022
Silver Chapter Award 2006
2006
Silver Chapter Award 2007
2007
Silver Chapter Award 2008
2008
Silver Chapter Award 2009
2009
Silver Chapter Award 2010
2010
Silver Chapter Award 2011
2011

2024 Board of Directors

President: Mike Franco, Boeing
President-Elect (Vice President): Mike McCarthy, Paragon Technology Group
Secretary (2023/2024): Kirk Kittell, Bayer
Treasurer (2024/2025): Lou Pape, Boeing
Director (2024/2025): Dr. Mary Malast, Leonardo DRS
Director (2024/2023): Caleb Klapp, Boeing
Director (2023/2024): Bob Scheurer, Boeing
Director (2023/2024): Dr. Cihan Dagli, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Past President: John Thompson, Boeing

Contact the MGC Board of Directors at midwest-gateway@incose.net.


Upcoming Chapter Events

Speaker Event

When:  Tuesday, Mar 19, 2024

Where:  Ferguson Brewing Company, 418 S. Florissant Rd, Ferguson, MO  63135

Who:  Rich Massey, Boeing Senior Technical Fellow - Biography

What:  The value of system security engineering (SSE) including emerging standardization as well as an introduction to the INCOSE SSE working group

RSVP:  Mike McCarthy - mike.franco@boeing.com

 

 

Colorado Front Range Chapter January Meeting - Enabling MBSE with Multi-Disciplinary Analysis & Optimization (MDAO)

January chapter meeting

Happy New Year, INCOSE Colorado Front Range! Our focus this year will be on tools that support and enhance the practice of systems engineering.  You’ll hear some case studies, see some tool demos, and we even plan to have some workshops later in the year. To kick off this series, we are honored to have Tony Davenport from Phoenix Integration as our guest presenter for our January member meeting on
Wednesday, 20 Jan. 
Chapter meeting starts at 6:15 PM and the presentation starts at 6:30 PM
Mountain Time.

Zoom dial in and presentation info is below.  Hope you can join us!

Join Zoom Meeting (20 January 2021):

https://incose-org.zoom.us/j/99089117711?pwd=RlB1V2IyVmtDVHpIZWZ5NXl0ZG9Vdz09

Meeting ID: 990 8911 7711

Passcode: 451099

Or dial in:

        888 475 4499 US Toll-free

        877 853 5257 US Toll-free

Meeting ID: 990 8911 7711

Passcode: 451099

 

ModelCenter: Enabling Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) with Multi-Disciplinary Analysis & Optimization (MDAO).

Presented By: Tony Davenport, North American Regional Manager, Phoenix Integration

This presentation will introduce and expand on concepts associated with integrating System Engineering models with Analytical models (physics, cost, mission, etc,.) in order to create a trade space for making intelligent decisions about your product.

The last 25 years, major aerospace companies utilized ModelCenter to make decisions and exceed their customer’s requirements. By automating and integrating discipline based mission, system, analytical, and cost solutions together to create a workflow, ModelCenter allows engineers to create tremendous improvements in price per performance while reducing risk on a project. Once the workflow is created, anyone in the organization’s digital thread can use sensitivity, design of experiments, optimization and risk/reliability algorithms to digitally test and improve all aspects of the design. Workflows can be created across the organizations desktops, HPC, cloud, and in a hybrid environment. By attending this 1.5 presentation, you will learn MDAO concepts and how many aerospace companies are utilizing this capability today.

After performing analytical engineering for 10 years at various engineering firms including EDS, Westinghouse, and Northrop Grumman, Tony spent the next 15 years helping many aerospace and defense companies optimize their CAE processes as an engineering business consultant with MSC Software and ESI.  Tony joined Phoenix Integration in 2016 to manage our sales activities, and help our customer’s gain significant value in their simulation assets. Tony holds a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelor’s of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park.

https://www.phoenix-int.com/team-members/tony-davenport/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonydavenport


Chapter News

New Chapter Members - 2023

Austin Renwick, The Boeing Company, Feb 27
Rachel Harlan, Student - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Mar 13
Caleb Klapp, Leonardo DRS, Apr 19
Kyle Thayer, The Boeing Company, Apr 19
Jessica Stevons, Medtronic, Apr 24|
Philip Hoff, United States Air Force, May 9
Peter Cichacz, Leonardo DRS, Jun 1
Deborah Keller, Nothrop Grumman Corporation, Jun 2
Sarah Ehlen, The Boeing Company, Jun 12
Brett Chase, Student - Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Jun 27
David Ware, Olin, Jun 27
Andrew Nixon, The Boeing Company, July 4
Thomas Fehr, Student, Aug 7
Kaleb Rockwell, Student - Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Aug 7
John Combs II, AWS, Aug 8
Matthew Freeman, Student - Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Aug 10
Thomas McKinney, Student, Aug 13
Maggie Hummel, Aug 21
Waylon Lindseth, John Deere, Sep 11
Ruchi Bhatia, Caterpillar, Inc., Sep 25
Aaron Kenkel, John Deere, Sep 25
Aaron Wasson, Charter Communications, Oct 12
Yvette Smith, The Boeing Company, Oct 17
Daniel Huck, SGRE, Oct 21
Aaron Simpson, Oct 31
Eleni Schock,Northrop Grumman, Nov 13   

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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