Join us for our 9 April 2024 Chapter meeting featuring:
Main Presentation: "Risk Management and Systems Engineering: The Shaping of New and Future Activities of the INCOSE Risk Management WG", by Jack Stein and Bob Parro
Abstract:
Systems engineers as individuals, and the field of systems engineering as a whole, are faced with an enormous challenge. Increasing system complexity, and ever more rapid and unpredictable developments and changes in technology, and in the socio-technical environments in which we will engineer and use the systems of the future, are creating levels of uncertainty, risk, and opportunity never before encountered.
In response, the practice of risk (and opportunity) management, in general and specifically as related to systems engineering, are undergoing significant change.
This presentation will inform attendees of recent changes in the practice of risk (and opportunity) management, and will provide an overview of INCOSE Risk Management Working Group (RMWG) current and future planned activities. The session will include an open Q&A segment, and is intended to be engaging two-way exchange of information, thoughts and ideas, aimed at directing, prioritizing, and improving the activities and work products of the INCOSE RMWG.
Bio:
The INCOSE Risk Management Working Group (WG) was established in 1998, making it one of INCOSE’s longest running working groups. Currently, the WG has just over 120 members world-wide. The size and scope of activities of the WG are expected to increase as fundamental changes in the concepts, principals and practices of risk management defined in the 1st (2009) edition of overarching international risk standard ISO 31000, Risk Management — Principles and guidelines, are implemented in an increasing number of organizations and systems engineering projects and programs. These changes are reflected in ISO/IEC/IEEE 16085:2021, Systems and software engineering — Life cycle processes — Risk management, and in the 5th Edition of the INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook.
Bob Parro and Jack Stein share in the chair-person duties of the Risk Management WG, making sure the WG is represented at monthly TechOps meetings and Annual International Workshops (IWs). As WG co-chairs, Jack and Bob have co-authored the Risk Management sections of both the 4th and 5th editions of the INCOSE SE Handbook. Together with WG member and standards specialist Paul Heininger, they represented INCOSE and the WG in the ISO/IEC/IEEE 16085:2021 work.
Jack Stein resides in Michigan and is a Past President of the INCOSE Michigan Chapter. Bob Parro resides in the Chicago area and is a Past President of the Chicagoland Chapter. They are both strong advocates of WG-Chapter interaction.
INCOSE-LA Chapter Speaker Meeting - Collaborative Governance with Dr. Antonia Boadi
El Segundo , USA
The Aerospace Corporation, 200 North Aviation Blvd., Bldg. D8, Room 1006A
Deborah Cannon
(310)336-8341
This presentation discusses the generic application of SE and SoS principles and methodologies to notional nuclear/radiological counter-terrorism scenarios and activities.
Register here!
Abstract
The American homeland security enterprise was established eleven days after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) unified organizations from 22 federal agencies. In addition to responding to unprecedented technological challenges, DHS leadership has forged linkages between federal, state and regional entities, some of which had previously been prohibited from collaborating, or even sharing information.
Collaborative governance is the ascendant paradigm in Public Administration and Public Policy. It aims to empower stakeholders with competing interests to arrive at a consensus and make recommendations regarding a policy or program. Dr. Boadi posits that collaborative governance processes can be enhanced through the application of Systems/Systems-of-Systems Engineering principles and methodologies.
This presentation discusses the generic application of SE and SoS principles and methodologies to notional nuclear/radiological counter-terrorism scenarios and activities.
Biography
Dr. Antonia Boadi is a member of the Physics Department at CSU Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) where she serves as Director of the Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence. She completed a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. Since 2001, she has served as Principle Investigator on an uninterrupted stream of external grant funding from Verizon, U.S. Department of Education, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Dr. Boadi developed the curriculum for CSUDH’s graduate Systems Engineering program which, pending final authorization, will welcome its first cohort during the 2020-2021 academic year. She founded PROWESS, the PaRtnership of Women Excelling as Scientists and Scholars, a puberty-to-Ph.D. pipeline with funding from the Verizon Foundation.
Dr. Boadi was awarded a Career Development Grant by the Department of Homeland Security to pursue a second doctoral degree in Public Policy with an emphasis in Counter-Terrorism. She is a member of INCOSE’s Anti-Terrorism Working Group.