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

Systems Engineering an Off Grid Electrical Supply A 1 Day Practical Hands-on MBSE Workshop

Robin Mikola
248-758-8645
[email protected]

The workshop is built around a hands-on exercise in which you will develop a model of a system to provide electricity to an off-grid site. Using a full-featured systems engineering tool, you will a follow an instructor-led top-down process to capture and create systems engineering information about the off-grid power system in a database system model. This will give you a real-world design experience in actually creating your own system model like those that would actually be used to realize the power system.

 In the course of the workshop exercise you will be exposed to the critical aspects of MBSE including:

  • Requirements Elicitation and Capture
  • System Structural Context Definition   
  • System Behavioral Context Definition 
  • Detailing System Behavior 
  • Architecting Systems Based on Behavior  
  • Simulation of Behavior 
  • Parameterization for Analysis
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Upon completion of the workshop, you will have an understanding of the MBSE experience and the power of a real systems engineering tool to bring your design ideas to life in a true systems model.

Attendees will be provided an evaluation license of Vitech’s GENESYS MBSE tool and presentation materials 1 week prior to the workshop. Installation of the provided GENESYS software and the included GENESYS Excel connector are required prior to the workshop. 

 A set of links for internet sites that contain some reference information will be included in the initial information. The experience will be much more dynamic if the attendees review these links and do a little further research in 2 areas.  

  1. Common household electrical devices and the power/current demands for these devices.  (This will aid in our definition of the problem space.)
  2. Existing electrical generation systems. (This will give us more knowledge of the solution space in which to design.)


ViTechWSImagePresenterAs a Principal Systems Engineer at Vitech, Steve Cash provides consulting and training support for Vitech customers. Steve is a Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) through the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE). Steve has spent 25+ years developing his systems engineering skills through experiential learning. While his experience is broad, he has spent the majority of that time in the automotive sector supporting the development of engine controls, transmission controls, suspension controls, and lithium-ion batteries. His roles over the years have ranged from electrical engineer to project lead to subject matter expert to manager. Steve holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Marquette University. He is also a graduate of the INCOSE Institute for Technical Leadership.


Register at: http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/regform?llr=yuclxe5ab&oeidk=a07ein6iael168f0466

 

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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.

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