INCOSE is proud to announce the launch of its official podcast, a new flagship media platform dedicated to candid conversations with the systems engineers of the future. The inaugural episode features an exclusive interview with Michael D. Watson, the President of INCOSE and a prominent leader in the global engineering community.
In the debut episode, host Samantha Bernal speaks with Watson about his distinguished 30-year career at NASA and his strategic vision for the advancement of systems engineering. Watson discusses the discipline’s rapid evolution compared to other engineering fields and emphasizes the critical importance of moving toward a shared vocabulary and a foundation based on the laws of science.
“Systems engineering is a transdisciplinary and integrative approach,” Watson notes during the interview, highlighting the need for practitioners to “own the interactions” between system functions, environments, and human organizations.
Key topics explored in the premiere episode include:
- The Future of Modeling: Why modern systems require a “tool bag” of six distinct modeling types, including physics-based, logical, and system value modeling.
- Socio-Technical Complexity: How INCOSE is strengthening its focus on the human and organizational dimensions of engineering through the Social Systems Working Group.
- NASA Insights: Lessons learned from defining vehicle management systems for human missions to Mars and the Space Launch System (SLS).
- The Path to “World’s Trusted Authority”: Defining the milestones required for INCOSE to reach its goal as the premier global resource for technical publications and research.
The first episode of the INCOSE podcast is made possible through the generous support of Weber State University. Weber State offers a 100% online, graduate-level MBSE certificate designed for working professionals to enhance their career competencies in complex systems.
The INCOSE podcast is now available for streaming. For more information about the podcast or to join the largest global systems community, visit incose.org.