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

Wasatch Chapter Meeting (Virtual) -- Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) by Mark Sampson

Paul White
385-393-2137
903-900-9609
[email protected]

Due to circumstances beyond our control, Weber State will not be available to host our meeting. This meeting will be hosted virtually.

We will host our meeting virtually! We invite you to join us as Mark Sampson discusses "Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)".

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Due to circumstances beyond our control, Weber State University will be unavailable to host our chapter meeting. Our meeting will be held virtually over Zoom.

Date: Thursday, November 11, 2021

Times: 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. (All times are Mountain Time.)

Agenda:

  • 6:30 - 6:45 p.m. -- Short Chapter Announcements
  • 6:45 - 8:00 p.m. -- Featured Presentation: Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) by Mark Sampson
RSVP & Virtual Information:*

https://incose_wasatch_nov_2021.eventbrite.com

*NOTE: You must RSVP to receive the virtual information, which will be emailed within one hour of our meeting.

Abstract:

Mark Sampson will speak about INCOSE's latest efforts to promote MBSE.

Professional Biography:

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Mark Sampson is the product evangelist preaching integrating systems engineering and requirements within the product-lifecycle management (PLM) business at Siemens—enabling systems engineering and requirements to participate/influence all aspects of product development.

After graduating with a BS in Computer Engineering from BYU and a MS in Systems Engineering from USC, Mark started his career at Texas Instruments, survived a successful boot-strap startup, selling out to EDS, eventually ending up at Siemens with a breadth of 30 years’ experience around applying Systems Engineering tools in a variety of industries and well-known brands—high tech, automotive, defense aero, medical devices, consumer products, and others.

Mark was a founding member of the INCOSE North Texas Chapter, has served in a variety of local and international-level leadership roles including INCOSE Technical Board overseeing modeling and tools strategies. He currently chairs INCOSE’s MBSE Initiative which is responsible for system modeling standards such as ISO-AP-233 system data exchange standard and SysML and is currently focused on developing/implementing MBSE best practices.

Mark has published a number of articles on automating systems engineering in various journals including INCOSE Symposia, Insight, and IEEE Spectrum. In addition, Mark is an adjunct professor at SMU where he teaches graduate-level systems engineering courses.

Mark lives outside Zion National Park in Southern Utah where he and his wife are experiencing raising a teenager.

Questions:
Please contact Paul White, Chapter President, at 385-393-2137 (office), 903-900-9609 (mobile), or [email protected].

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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