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
Bronze Chapter Award 2004
2023
Silver Chapter Award 2006
2006
Silver Chapter Award 2007
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Silver Chapter Award 2008
2008
Silver Chapter Award 2009
2009
Silver Chapter Award 2010
2010
Silver Chapter Award 2011
2011

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

System Security Engineering WG: Call for Articles

Summary (1-2 Sentences): Security in the Future of Systems Engineering (FuSE) is the June 2022 INSIGHT Theme. Call for articles is at www.parshift.com/t/2022Call.pdf.

Call for Articles
INCOSE INSIGHT, June 2022
Theme: Systems Security in the Future of Systems Engineering (FuSE)
An Invited Article Series – INCOSE Membership not required

Intro: The Future of Systems Engineering (FuSE) is an INCOSE-led multiorganizational collaborative initiative pursuing INCOSE’s Vision 2025 and beyond. To accomplish this the FuSE initiative encompasses a number of topic areas with active projects to shape the future of systems engineering. One such topic area addresses Security in the Future of Systems Engineering. In 2020 a multiorganization workshop team identified eleven strategic foundation concepts appropriate for near-term development. An IS21 paper introduced these concepts with eleven one-page descriptions to instigate and inspire thinking and involvement in the development, exposition, and practice of these foundational concepts. The focus is on strategic intent, leaving ample room for various approaches.

IS21 paper: www.parshift.com/s/210717IS21-FuseSecurityRoadmap.pdf.

Mission: These articles are intended to propose or expose strategies for developing, implementing, and/or practicing the foundation concepts.

Approach: This Theme Issue will accommodate articles specifically addressing one or more foundation concepts identified in the IS21 FuSE Security Roadmap paper linked above. Authors may submit multiple offerings. A brief synopsis of the concepts in table form is on the next page. Appropriate articles include concept strategy development, implemented case study exposure, experimental implementation, and additional community instigation and inspiration. Systems engineering is practiced in one form or another in many domains. These foundation concepts are domain agnostic, and some of them may have an early foothold in some domains worth exposing.

Schedule
2021 Aug 15: Call for articles issued.
2021 Oct 15: (nlt preferred) Concept(s) being addressed, working title, and one paragraph working abstract.
2021 Dec 15 : First (complete) draft submission.
2021 Dec 27: Feedback comments returned on first draft.
2022 Jan 17: Second draft submission, if appropriate, for review at IW22.
2022 Jan 29: Live review: 15 minute presentation with 10 minute feedback at IW22 (in attendance or virtual).
2022 Feb 15: Detailed comments returned to authors for improvement, as appropriate.
2022 Mar 15: Final draft submission, formatted for required style, with author-company release.
2022 Apr xx: INSIGHT editors may contact authors directly with copy-editing suggestions.
2022 Jun xx: INSIGHT publication.

General guidance
• Articles must speak meaningfully to systems engineers.
• The mission is the objective.
• These are not journal articles, 2000-4000 words is the target. • Do not use the MS Word reference tool. Citations and references should comply with the Swinburne Harvard reference style. A descriptive guide with examples is available in the Downloads section of the INCOSE IS website. Additional information is available at: http://www.swinburne.edu.au/library/referencing/harvard-style-guide.
• Style guide: MS Word, 12 point Times New Roman, single line spacing, indented paragraphs, with minimal or no (preferred) use of styles. Graphics are highly encouraged and do not take away from word-count.

Evaluation Criteria:
• Fit to the theme, and meaningful to SEs and SE issues.
• Advances the mission.
• Publishability: length (2,000-4,000 words), writing quality, logical, and comprehensible. Submissions: NO PDF. Send submissions to [email protected] attached as an MS Word document. Be sure to include a title, and author names and email addresses in the by-line underneath the title. Also include an abstract and bio for each author.

Updates to this call-for-articles will be maintained at www.parshift.com/t/2022Call.pdf

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.

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