Greater Philadelphia Chapter Meeting
(Non-members welcome to attend)
"System of Systems Approach to Automotive Challenges"
by Oliver Hoehne
Date: Wednesday Evening, April 24, 2019
Agenda: 6:00 - 6:30: Arrival and check in & dinner (sandwich box available)
6:30 - 6:45: Welcome to Drexel & Introductions
6:45 - 7:00: Introduction of Drexel & Penn student organizations.
7:00 - 7:45: System of Systems Approach to Automotive Challenges by Oliver Hoehne
7:45 - 8:00: Break
8:00 - 8:45: Discussions from INCOSE members to students on SE careers and activities
8:45 - 9:00: Networking with the Students & Chapter Business
Location: Drexel University
Lebow Engineering Center, located on Market Street between 32nd and 31st Streets
Hill Conference Room – Room 240
RESERVATIONS (indicating meal choice, by Friday, April 19th):
INCOSE Members, Non-members contact: Rick Grandrino
Drexel and other students contact: Rick Grandrino
University of Penn Students Contact: Dr. Peter Scott
Meal Choices: Boxed sandwiches available, served with potato chips, whole fruit and a cookie.
Please indicate your selection when making reservation:
1) Smoked Turkey and Swiss Cheese
2) Ham and Swiss Cheese
3) Roasted Vegetables and Cheese
Meal Cost: $10 for INCOSE Members and Nonmembers; Students are Free (Just present your student ID)
Deadline for Reservations and meal choices is Friday, April 19th
Delaware Valley Chapter Meeting
(Non-members welcome to attend)
“System of Systems Research"
by Dr. Clifton Baldwin
&
“UPDM/UAF (Unified Architecture Framework)"
by Laura Hart
NEW Date: Wednesday Evening, January 16, 2019
Agenda: 6:00-6:30: Arrival and check in & dinner (sandwich box available)
6:30-6:45: Welcome to Drexel & Introductions
6:45 -7:00: Introduction of Drexel Student group, and CSEP Certification efforts at Drexel U.
7:00 -7:45: System of Systems Research presentation by Clif Baldwin
7:45 - 8:00: Break
8:00 -8:45: UPDM/UAF(Unified Architecture Framework) presentation by Laura Hart
8:45-9:00: Networking with the Students & Chapter Business
Location: Drexel University
Pearlstein Learning Center, Room 307
Market Street between 32nd and 33rd Streets.
RESERVATIONS (indicating meal choice, by January 11th):
INCOSE Members, Non-members, & Drexel students contact: Rick Grandrino
University of Penn Students Contact: Dr. Peter Scott
Meal Choices: Boxed sandwiches available, served with potato chips, whole fruit and a cookie.
Please indicate your selection when making Reservation:
1) Smoked Turkey and Swiss Cheese
2) Ham and Swiss Cheese
3) Roasted Vegetables and Cheese
Meal Cost: $10 for INCOSE Members and Nonmembers; Students are Free (Just present your student ID)
Deadline for Reservations and meal choices is January 11th
Delaware Valley Chapter Meeting
(Non-members welcome to attend)
“Model Based Systems Engineering"
A presentation on the concept of MBSE and attributes associated including SysML Overview
by Laura Hart,
The MITRE Company & DV Chapter President
Date: Thursday Evening, April 26, 2018
Agenda: 6:00-6:30: Arrival and check in
6:30-6:45: Welcome to Drexel & Introductions
6:45 -7:00: Introduction of Drexel & Penn Student Divisions of INCOSE Delaware Valley Chapter
7:00 -7:45: Laura Hart Presentation and Discussion
7:45 - 8:00: Break
8:00 -8:45: Discussion from INCOSE members to students on SE Careers and activities associated
8:45-9:00: Networking with the Students & Chapter Business
Location: Drexel University
Pearlstein Building Learning Center, Room 307
33rd & Market Streets, Philadelphia, PA
RESERVATIONS (indicating meal choice, by Friday, April 20):
INCOSE Members and Non-members: James Finney
Drexel & Other Students Contact: Rick Grandrino
University of Penn Students Contact: Dr. Peter Scott
Meal Choices: Boxed sandwiches available, Served with Potato Chips, Whole Fruit and a Cookie. Indicate your selection when making Reservation
1) Smoked Turkey and Swiss Cheese
2) Ham and Swiss Cheese
3) Roasted Vegetables and Cheese
Meal Cost: $10 for INCOSE Members and Nonmembers; Students are Free (Just present your student ID)
Deadline for Reservations and meal choices is Friday, April 20th
See PDF file at the link before for full abstract, bio, directions and maps:
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Presents:
“The Next Generation Transportation Data Analytics Cluster”
by Dr. Parth Bhavsar, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering Rowan University
The transportation system is transitioning from technology driven system to a data driven system. While, it is expected that the existing and evolving technologies in the transportation engineering will produce significant data, the researchers are still in the initial phase of converting this data into meaningful information. For any system, there are three primary steps that convert data into meaningful information; (1) Data collection/generation, (2) Data analysis, and (3) Data interpretation. This presentation will include (1) a unique mobile data collection system being developed by Rowan Smart Vehicle Research Group that can provide location specific data to any regional Transportation Systems Management & Operations (TSM&O) center; (2) a framework for core algorithms for the next generation transportation data analytics cluster (TransDAC); and (3) an example of data interpretation.
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Location: Blue Heron Pines Golf Club, 550 Country Club Dr, Egg Harbor City, NJ 08215, (609) 965-1800 Check their website for directions: www.blueheronpines.com
Social Time: 6:00 PM
Dinner: 6:30 PM
Speaker Approx: 7:45 PM
Buffet style dinner:
$19 AIAA/IEEE/INCOSE Members, $23 ITEA/NSBE/HFES/Guests, $15 Students
Reservations due by noon Tuesday, April 17th, to:
Joe Burns 609-338-8789 (C) email: Joe Burns
Mike Konyak 609-280-8179 (C) email: Mike Konyak
Click below for flyer in PDF form:
Presents:
“Research to Improve the Safety of Rotorcraft”
Cliff Johnson, ANG-E272 S/W & Systems Branch
The United States Helicopter Safety Team’s (USHST) primary mission is to reduce the fatal accident rate within the helicopter community. As part of this mission, the USHST has developed several safety enhancements for helicopters. The FAA has been supporting these efforts via several research initiatives led by and conducted at the William J. Hughes Technical Center. One of these efforts involves examining helicopter flight data monitoring (HFDM) for the Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing (ASIAS) program by developing aggregate analytical tools and techniques. Another effort involves researching Head-Worn Displays (HWD’s) and Enhanced Vision Systems (EVS) technologies to determine criteria for Enhanced Helicopter Vision Systems (EHVS) or Enhanced Flight Vision Systems (EFVS) operations for helicopters. EHVS technology has the potential to increase operational efficiency and safety for helicopter approaches within the U.S. The presentation will highlight via audio, video, and graphics, a collection of flight test and other research activities for these projects and will also describe several historical rotorcraft accidents that the team has used as inspiration for conducting the research.
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Location: Blue Heron Pines Golf Club
550 Country Club Dr, Egg Harbor City, NJ 08215
(609) 965-1800 Check their website for directions: www.blueheronpines.com
Social Time: 6:00 PM
Buffet style dinner: 6:30 PM
Speaker Approx: 7:45 PM
$19 AIAA/IEEE/INCOSE Members, $23 ITEA/NSBE/HFES/Guests, $15 Students
Reservations due by noon Tuesday, February 20th
Delaware Valley Chapter Meeting
(Non-members welcome to attend)
“INCOSE – Impacting Today and Shaping the Future”
Presenter: Garry Roedler, INCOSE President, Lockheed Martin Senior Fellow
Joint meeting with the Penn Systems Engineering Club and the Drexel INCOSE Organization. For abstract and the author’s biographical summary, see the full document at the link below.
Date: Thursday evening, February 15th, 2018
Agenda:
6:30-7:00: arrival and pick up boxed meal
7:00-7:15: self-introductions by attendees
7:15-7:45: Garry Roedler presentation and discussion 7:45-8:15: networking with the students
8:15-8:30: Chapter business
Place: Raisler Lounge, 2nd Floor, Towne Building, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 220 South 33rd Street. Please enter through the door at the south-west corner of the building and show the guard some form of ID.
Reservations: Please contact Peter Scott ASAP if you plan to attend this event – space is limited. Deadline February 8th for the meal count: please choose from the sandwich selection included in the flyer at the link below. $10 for the meal (As always, all full-time students are FREE, just bring student ID).
20th Annual Awards Banquet
Engineer of the Year
Thursday Evening, November 30, 2017
Keynote Speaker:
C. David Brown, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for DT&E
Time:
5:45: Cash Bar and hors d'oeuvres
6:30: Buffet Dinner, Distinguished Lecturer and Awards Ceremony
Location:
Greate Bay Country Club, 901 Mays Landing Road, Somers Point, NJ (609) 927-5071
Seating is Limited – Advance Reservations Required
Provide names with payment (checks payable to 'IEEE') no later than Tuesday, November 28 to:
Scott Doucett* (609) 485-5930
Pete D’Amico (609) 485-6725
*FAA employees RSVP to Scott Doucett
Cost:
Tickets: $35 Members, $40 Guests, $30 Students, $375 Table for 10
Ad in Program: $75 1⁄2 page, $125 full page, $125 Free standing banner, Ad package $175 full page + banner
Meeting information flyer:
INCOSE Delaware Valley Chapter Meeting
(Non-members welcome!)
Wednesday Evening, November 1, 2017
Speakers:
1. Dr David Kaslow: “Developing and Distributing a CubeSat Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE Reference Model)” – A presentation that captures aspects of a CubeSat project using the Systems Modeling Language (SysML)
2. Rick Grandrino: “Open Systems Architecture Condition Based Maintenance” – Insights into the Application of OSA for Condition Based Maintenance for DoD and Commercial Industries
Agenda:
6:00 - 6:30: Arrival and check in
6:30 - 6:45: Welcome to Drexel & Introductions
6:45 - 7:00: Introduction of Drexel Student Chapter INCOSE Organization
7:00 - 7:45: Dr. David Kaslow presentation and discussion
7:45 - 8:00: Break
8:00 - 8:45: Rick Grandrino presentation and discussion
8:45 - 9:00: Networking with the students & Chapter business
Location:
Drexel University Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics (MEM) Seminar Room
Curtis Hall Room 162
32nd & Chestnut Streets
RESERVATIONS (By Oct 27th):
INCOSE Members and Nonmembers: James Finney jameswfinney@yahoo.com
Drexel & Other Students Contact: Chris Morse cmorse@coe.drexel.edu
University of Penn Students Contact: Dr. Pete Scott peter.crosby.scott@comcast.net
Meal Choices:
Boxed sandwiches available, served with potato chips, whole fruit and a cookie. Indicate your selection when making reservation:
- Smoked Turkey and Swiss Cheese
- Ham and Swiss Cheese
-
Roasted Vegetables and Cheese
Cost:
$10 for INCOSE Members and Nonmembers; Students are Free (Just present your student ID)
Deadline for Reservations and meal choices is Friday, October 27th
Full meeting information with abstracts, speaker biographies, and directions to venue:
Presents:
Army Cyber Institute (ACI) Overview and Current Initiatives
Chris Hartley, Deputy Director, ACI and
CW3 Judy Esquibel, ACI Research Scientist
ACI is a national strategic initiatives group for cyber issues affecting the Army. Its broad national charter is to conduct outreach among the Army, government, academia, public and private sector at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels. Reporting directly to the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, the ACI develops intellectual capital with subject matter experts to expand the cyber knowledge base for Army defense and operations. This cyber focus will help the nation to outmaneuver its adversaries in cyberspace and bridge gaps to promote information exchange across the Army, government, academia, public and private sector. The ACI is a national resource for research, advice, and education in the cyber domain, engaging military, government, academic, and industrial cyber communities in impactful partnerships to build intellectual capital and expand the knowledge base for the purpose of enabling effective Army cyber defense and cyber operations.
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Location:
Blue Heron Pines Golf Club
550 Country Club Dr, Egg Harbor City, NJ 08215
(609) 965-1800 Check their website for directions: www.blueheronpines.com
TIME:
Social Time: 6:00 PM
Dinner: 6:30 PM
Speaker Approx: 7:45 PM
MENU: Buffet style dinner
COST: $19 AIAA/IEEE/INCOSE Members, $23 ITEA/NSBE/HFES/Guests, $15 Students
Reservations due by noon Tuesday, October 17th
Joe Burns 609-338-8789 (C) jfburns54@ieee.org
Mike Konyak 609-280-8179 (C) snj.aiaa@gmail.com
*** 18 Oct Meeting Flyer: ***
Presents:
“Deep Learning vs. Bayesian Thinking Application to Image Segmentation”
Dr. Nidhal Bouaynaya, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rowan University
Biomedical image analysis and segmentation is challenging because of the unpredictable appearance and shape of tumors from multi-modal imaging data. In this talk, we investigate two approaches: Mathematical modeling and optimization vs. deep learning; more specifically, partial differential equations vs. convolutional neural networks. Mathematically, we propose a deformable model based on the variational level set method (LSM) and non-negative matrix factorization (NMF). We describe the use of NMF, an algorithm based on decomposition by parts that can reduce the dimension of images from thousands of pixels to a handful of regions. Coupled with the variational framework, NMF-LSM is a powerful image segmentation method with pixel-level accuracy. In the second approach, we propose an automatic segmentation method based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with a deep architecture. The two approaches are validated on the Multimodel Brain Tumor Segmentation Challenge (BRATS) 2016 database. We use the Dice Similarly coefficient and Haussdorff measure to assess the three tumor regions: whole tumor, core tumor and necrosis. NMF-LSM showed superior performance for whole tumor and necrosis in Hausdorff measure, whereas CNN showed superior performance for the tumor core in Dice metric. In our ongoing efforts, we are integrating both approaches towards a complete clinic-ready suite of MR analysis and display tools, named coordinates and volumetrics for brain tumors.
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Location:
Blue Heron Pines Golf Club
550 Country Club Dr, Egg Harbor City, NJ 08215
(609) 965-1800 Check their website for directions: www.blueheronpines.com
TIME:
Social Time: 6:00 PM
Dinner: 6:30 PM
Speaker Approx: 7:45 PM
MENU: Buffet style dinner
COST: $19 AIAA/IEEE/INCOSE Members, $23 ITEA/NSBE/HFES/Guests, $15 Students
Reservations due by noon Tuesday, September 19th
Joe Burns 609-338-8789 (C) jfburns54@ieee.org
Mike Konyak 609-280-8179 (C) snj.aiaa@gmail.com
*** 19 Sep Updated Meeting Flyer: ***
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Presents:
"Potential Impact and Details of Privatizing the Air Traffic Control System in the United States"
NEIL D. BYERS, FAA Managers Association Director of Legislative Affairs
In 2016, the US Congress developed and later sidelined H.R.4441 or the Aviation Innovation, Reform, and Reauthorization Act (AIRR) that required the Department of Transportation to spin off the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) administered air traffic control system into a separate, private, and non-profit entity. AIRR would have impacted the bulk of the personal at the W.J. Hughes Technical Center including those that are in the Air Traffic Organization and NextGen lines of business. Now in 2017, a major effort is afoot to re-introduce the bill with renewed support from a consortium of congressional sponsors, airlines excluding Delta Airlines, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA), and the current administration. If implemented under this renewed effort, the potential effect not only to the National Airspace System but to our local Technical Center’s personnel will likely have significant long term consequences.
The FAA Managers Association (FAAMA) is a national not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote aviation safety and efficiency while advocating for FAA managers’ interests. At the request of SNJPS leadership and to help stimulate awareness of our members and guests, the FAAMA shall present details on the renewed effort to privatize the FAA and its potential impact to our local community in southern New Jersey.
Wednesday June 28, 2017
901 Mays Landing Road, Somers Point, NJ 08224
(609) 927-5071 Check their website for directions: www.greatebay.com
Social Time: 6:00 PM
Dinner: 6:30 PM
Speaker Approx: 7:45 PM
Menu: Buffet style dinner
Cost: $19 AIAA/IEEE/INCOSE Members, $23 ITEA/NSBE/HFES/Guests, $15 Students
Reservations due by noon Tuesday, June 27
Chapter Meeting on 14 June 2017
The INCOSE Delaware Valley Chapter will host a dinner meeting on Wednesday evening, June 14th, at Drexel University in Philadelphia. The meeting will feature a pair of presentations:
1) Oliver Hoehne: “Implementing an Effective Modular Open Systems Approach [MOSA] Framework – Insights into the Application of MOSA to Non-Defense Industries”; and
2) Jim Armstrong: “Improving Integration: Thinking Beyond the Physical Architecture”.
Abstracts, bios, and full event details are included at the link below.
Location:: Drexel University, Pearlstein Building Learning Center, Room 308 32nd & Market Streets
Agenda: 6:00-6:30: Arrival and check in
6:30-6:45: Welcome to Drexel & Introductions
6:45-7:15: Oliver Hoehne presentation and discussion
7:15-7:45: Jim Armstrong presentation and discussion
7:45-8:15: Networking with the students
8:15-8:30: Chapter business
Meal: $10 INCOSE Members & non-members, students free with ID (please indicate your meal choice when you RSVP by the 9th)
RSVP by Friday, June 9, to:
INCOSE Members and Nonmembers: James Finney jameswfinney@yahoo.com
Drexel & Other Students Contact: Chris Morse cmorse@coe.drexel.edu
University of Penn Students Contact: Dr Pete Scott peter.crosby.scott@comcast.net
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Presents:
“NAS Storyboarding and the Benefits
of Cultivating a Knowledge Community”
Cuong Nguyen, FAA ANG-E5A, Computer Scientist
Communities of Practice are groups of people who share a passion about a topic and deepen their knowledge and expertise by interacting frequently. Although the definition of a Community of Practice has changed overtime, the idea that effective knowledge creation is socially created and presented as shared stories has yielded big payoffs to communities and organizations that embrace it. From eBay to Chrysler Auto, organizations that embrace these types of knowledge communities have benefitted from the increase in aggregate knowledge. The Animated Storyboards for the National Airspace System is a platform that can facilitate a knowledge community for the FAA and NextGen Systems by putting less emphasis on traditional documentation and more focus on meaningful interactions with subject matter experts and users, thereby creating an intuitive learning product fueled by a highly collaborative environment.
Date: Wednesday April 19, 2017 Location: Blue Heron Pines Golf Club, 550 Country Club Dr, Egg Harbor City, NJ 08215
(609) 965-1800 Check their website for directions: www.blueheronpines.com
Social Time: 6:00 PM
Dinner: 6:30 PM
Speaker Approx: 7:45 PM
Menu: Buffet style dinner
Cost: $19 AIAA/IEEE/INCOSE Members, $23 ITEA/NSBE/HFES/Guests, $15 Students
Reservations due by noon Tuesday, Apr. 18
Joe Burns 609-485-4654 (W) joseph.f.burns@faa.gov
Mike Konyak 609-485-5655 (W) snj.aia a@gmail.com
Holly Cyrus 609-485-4887 (W) Holly.Cyrus@faa.gov
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Presents:
“Continuous Monitoring Techniques for Detecting Emergent Behavior in the US National Airspace System”
Bruce Normann, R&D Program Manager CSSI, INC.
Test and evaluation (T&E) practices for complex System-of-Systems (SoS) have evolved over time to cope with the scale and scope of these systems, but reliable methods for detecting emergent behavior have remained elusive. It’s a reasonable assumption that the US National Airspace System (NAS) has never been in the exact same state more than once in the last 30 years of operation. Recognizing the large number of known unknowns and the unknown unknowns that accompany any major change to a SoS, a great deal of Operational T&E is conducted on NAS systems before they are certified and deployed. The advantages of integrating T&E earlier into the system development lifecycle are well documented, and by extending T&E practices and principles into full lifecycle monitoring, an effective methodology for detecting emergent behaviors can be developed.
Date: Wednesday March 15, 2017 Location: Blue Heron Pines Golf Club, 550 Country Club Dr, Egg Harbor City, NJ 08215
(609) 965-1800 Check their website for directions: www.blueheronpines.com
Social Time: 6:00 PM
Dinner: 6:30 PM
Speaker Approx: 7:45 PM
Menu: Buffet style dinner
Cost: $19 AIAA/IEEE/INCOSE Members, $23 ITEA/NSBE/HFES/Guests, $15 Students
Reservations due by noon Tuesday, Mar. 14
Joe Burns 609-485-4654 (W) joseph.f.burns@faa.gov
Mike Konyak 609-485-5655 (W) snj.aia a@gmail.com
Holly Cyrus 609-485-4887 (W) Holly.Cyrus@faa.gov
Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017
Presents:
“Risk Mitigation – From Space Applications to the Internet-of-Things (IoT)”
Dr. John L. Schmalzel
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rowan University
Systems include many risks, which occupy the efforts of the people who must identify and manage those risks in order to mitigate them to acceptable levels to support missions and safeguard lives. This talk summarizes a number of inter-related projects that all contribute in some measure to risk management. Beginning with NASA’s Max Launch Abort System project, which was designed to mitigate launch pad failure risks, the role of smart/intelligent sensors is considered, and then concludes with the importance of standardization to reduction of risks in the era of IoT.
Date: Wednesday February 18, 2017 Location: Blue Heron Pines Golf Club, 550 Country Club Dr, Egg Harbor City, NJ 08215
(609) 965-1800 Check their website for directions: www.blueheronpines.com
Social Time: 6:00 PM
Dinner: 6:30 PM
Speaker Approx: 7:45 PM
Menu: Buffet style dinner
Cost: $19 AIAA/IEEE/INCOSE Members, $23 ITEA/NSBE/HFES/Guests, $15 Students
Reservations due by noon Tuesday, Feb. 14
Joe Burns 609-485-4654 (W) joseph.f.burns@faa.gov
Mike Konyak 609-485-5655 (W) snj.aia a@gmail.com
Holly Cyrus 609-485-4887 (W) Holly.Cyrus@faa.gov
“Systems Engineering: Peacebuilding and Vision”
The INCOSE Delaware Valley Chapter will host a membership meeting on Tuesday evening, January 24th, on the campus of Drexel University. A pair of presenters will speak on the topics: "
Maestros and Martians: Using Systems Engineering Tools for Peacebuilding”, by Dr. Julie Drzymalski; and
"Overview of Systems Engineering Vision 2025”, by Bob McMahon. Abstracts and event details are included at the file link below. Meals are available for nominal cost with RSVP by January 20th.
We hope you can join with your fellow chapter members, guests, and local students for these free presentations! Please RSVP by January 20th.
Location: McAlister Building, 6th Floor, “City View Room”, 3250 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA
Date: January 24th, 2017
Time: 6:00 pm
Food and refreshments available - please see attached file for meal choices, prices and other details.
Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017
Presents:
“Sleep, Circadian Rhythms and Cognitive
Performance on a Human Mission to Mars” Dr. Mathias Basner, MD, PhD, MSc, Univ. of Pennsylvania
The timeframe of a manned mission to Mars is well beyond the duration astronauts and cosmonauts have remained confined in either a spacecraft or space analog environment. Long-duration exploration missions are characterized by high crew autonomy and prolonged periods of isolation and confinement. Behavioral health risks are among the most serious unmitigated risks of such missions, and there is a critical need to predict the time course, magnitude, and individual variability in behavioral and affective reactions of space explorers. The presentation will focus on sleep, circadian rhythms and cognitive performance in 24 astronauts during 6-month International Space Station (ISS) missions, and on individual differences in behavioral and psychological reactions of a multinational, culturally diverse, all-male crew of 6 who were participating in the first ground-based, high-fidelity simulated 520-day mission to Mars.
Wednesday January 18, 2017
Location: Blue Heron Pines Golf Club, 550 Country Club Dr, Egg Harbor City, NJ 08215
(609) 965-1800 Check their website for directions: www.blueheronpines.com
Social Time: 6:00 PM
Dinner: 6:30 PM
Speaker Approx: 7:45 PM
Menu: Buffet style dinner
Cost: $19 AIAA/IEEE/INCOSE Members, $23 ITEA/NSBE/HFES/Guests, $15 Students
Reservations due by noon Tuesday, Jan 17
Joe Burns 609-485-4654 (W) joseph.f.burns@faa.gov
Mike Konyak 609-485-5655 (W) snj.aia a@gmail.com
Holly Cyrus 609-485-4887 (W) Holly.Cyrus@faa.gov
19th Annual Awards Banquet
Recognizing Outstanding Engineers, Scientists & Technical Leaders
Keynote Speaker: Dr. George Bibel, University of North Dakota Professor of Mechanical Engineering
“Beyond the Black Box: The Forensics of Airplane Crashes”
DATE: Thursday, December 1st
PLACE: Greate Bay Country Club, 901 Mays Landing Road, Somers Point, NJ (609) 927-5071
5:45 PM Cash Bar and hors d'oeuvres
6:30 PM Buffet Dinner, Distinguished Lecturer and Awards Ceremony
COSTS Tickets: $35 Members, $40 Guests, $30 Students, $375 Table for 10
Ad in Program: $75 1⁄2 page, $125 full page, $125 Free standing banner, Ad package $175 full page + banner
Seating is Limited – Advance Reservations Required
Provide names with payment (checks payable to 'IEEE') no later than Wednesday, November 30 to:
Scott Doucett* (609) 485-5930
Theresa Basquez (609) 485-7410
*FAA employees RSVP to Scott Doucett
Wednesday, Oct 19, 2016
Presents:
“21st Century Challenges and Opportunities for Aviation Human Factors”
Dr. Kenneth Allendoerfer, FAA, Manager Human Factors Branch
Aviation is one of the core domains for human factors research and practice. Many of the basic theories and methods used by human factors professionals were developed and applied first in the aviation domain. However, as aviation expands and changes to include new types of vehicles (e.g., UASs), new missions and categories of operators (e.g., amateur UAS pilots), and involving new forms of technology and automation (e.g., autonomous vehicles), the field of human factors must adapt its methods and approaches as well. For example, traditional human factors focused on core topics such as communication, attention, and decision making. These topics still apply to the future aviation domain, but now may include communication with intelligent agents in addition to other humans, attention to new forms of displays and indicators (e.g., haptic alerts), and decisions supplemented by recommendation and modeling tools. Researchers and practitioners in human factors will need to expand their knowledge of theories and techniques associated with fields such as information visualization, artificial intelligence, robotics, and natural language understanding. In the presentation, I will talk about how these fields inter-relate and how human factors engineering can be expanded to incorporate these disparate knowledge domains.
New Location: Greate Bay Country Club
901 Mays Landing Rd. Somers Point, NJ 08244
(609) 927-5071 Check their website for directions: www.greatebay.com
TIME:
Social Time: 6:00 PM
Dinner: 6:30 PM
Speaker Approx: 7:45 PM
MENU: Buffet style dinner
COST:
$17 AIAA/IEEE/INCOSE Members,
$21 ITEA/NSBE/HFES/Guests,
$13 Students
Reservations due by noon Tuesday, Oct 18
Joe Burns
609-485-4654 (W)
joseph.f.burns@faa.gov
Mike Konyak
609-485-5655 (W)
snj.aiaa@gmail.com
Holly Cyrus
609-485-4887 (W)
Holly.Cyrus@faa.gov
INCOSE DV Chapter event on June 30th: INCOSE International Symposium presentations
Your INCOSE Delaware Valley Chapter will host a membership meeting this Thursday evening, June 30th, featuring a pair of technical presenters who will provide us with a special “pre-screening” of their material to be presented at next month’s 26th annual INCOSE International Symposium in Edinburgh, Scotland. Dr. Joanna Defranco from Penn State University will present "Facilitating Collaborative Learning in Online Engineering Student Teams”, and James Armstrong from Stevens Institute of Technology will present "Impact of System Integration on Reliability and Maintainability”. Abstracts are included below.
We hope you can join with your fellow chapter members at this event. Guest are welcome!
Location: L-3 Communications-East Auditorium, 1 Federal St., Camden, NJ 08103
Map to L-3 Camden As you head West on Federal Street, the Visitor’s Parking Lot is accessed via the second L-3 entrance. The lot will be on the left before you reach the employee gated entrance. The lobby is at the flag pole entrance. Inform the guard at the desk you are there for the INCOSE meeting and to contact John Hoban.
Date & Time: June 30th, 2016 5:30 pm
Food (wraps, Caesar salad, cookies) and beverages available for $10.
Please RSVP to the email sent out to DV Chapter members, or direct to Jim Finney
Any additional details and updates will be posted here this week.
Impact of System Integration on Reliability and Maintainability
James Armstrong (Stevens Institute of Technology)
Copyright © 2016 by Armstrong. Published and used by INCOSE with permission
Abstract. Integration objectives are normally focused on whether the system of interest performs its basic
functionality in accordance with stated requirements. Secondary considerations, such as effects on reliability or maintainability due to integration impacts, are often left unaddressed until a problem actually arises. By looking at several instances where these impacts had significant impact, we can take away several lessons learned to guide future integration efforts towards a more fully successful end result.
Facilitating Collaborative Learning in Online Engineering Student Teams
Colin Neill (Penn State University)
Joanna Defranco (Penn State University)
Copyright © 2016 by Neill, Defranco. Published and used by INCOSE with permission
Abstract. Team projects are commonplace in systems engineering education. They address a key
educational objective, provide students critical experience relevant to their future careers, allow instructors to set problems of greater scale and complexity than could be tackled individually, and are a vehicle for socially constructed learning. While all student teams experience challenges, those in fully-online programs must also deal with remote working, asynchronous coordination, and computer-mediated communications all of which contribute to greater social distance between team members. We have developed a facilitation framework to aid team collaboration and have demonstrated its efficacy, in prior research, with respect to team performance and outcomes. Those studies indicated, however, that despite experiencing improved project outcomes, students working in effective teams did not experience significantly improved individual achievement.
To address this deficiency we implemented theoretically-grounded refinements to the collaboration model
based upon peer-tutoring research. Our results indicate a modest, but statistically significant, improvement in individual achievement using this refined model.
Event set for Wednesday, May 18th, 2016: The next Southern NJ Professional Societies dinner meeting will be May 18th at Blue Heron Pines Golf Club. The speaker is William Wanner, Manager, Navigation System Verification & Monitoring Branch who will discuss “Satellite Navigation: Past, Present and Future”. GPS technology has become a part of our lives. Here how it all began, what’s been accomplished and what the future holds. See the Flyer at the link below for details and please remember to RSVP with one of the Officers listed on the Flyer.
Thanks - we hope you can attend and enjoy the event!
Event set for Wednesday, April 20th, 2016: The Southern NJ Professional Societies are pleased to host Mr. Michael Konyak, FAA Laboratory Integration Lead. The topic is “A Critique of a Popular Aerodynamic Theory”. This dinner meeting event is scheduled for Wednesday evening, April 20th at Blue Heron Pines Golf Club in Egg Harbor City, NJ. Please see the flyer (link below) for details and if you plan to attend, please RSVP with one of the Officers listed there.
You and your systems engineering colleagues are cordially invited to attend the INCOSE Northeast SE Tour when it makes its stop in our area at Drexel University on Wednesday, March 30. The full-day agenda has now been set with six speakers (three “tour” presenters and three local presenters). Please see link below for a flyer providing details of the agenda, speaker topics, location, and parking/transportation options.
If you haven’t done so already, please let us know soon of your plans to attend! While there is no charge to attend this unique, one-of-a-kind event, we need to be sure we have sufficient space and accommodations. Attendees need not be INCOSE members, but we just ask that all attendees RSVP we have an attendance count. Even if you cannot attend, please feel free to share this email or flyer with anyone who might attend with an interest in systems engineering!
Find out more about the tour at: www.northeastsetour.com
RSVP: Please contact send email to Jim Finney to register for this free event.
Early registration is encouraged to ensure that the appropriate size room and meal count can be reserved.
Flyer with agenda, speaker topics, location, and parking/transportation options:
Wednesday, February 17th, 2016: Present:
“Systems Engineering”
Walter Sobkiw
Walt will provide an overview of systems engineering as captured in his books: Systems Practices as Common Sense and Systems Engineering Design Renaissance. The presentation will also include thoughts on systems education and the next generation. Walt started his career with the FAA as an electrical engineering co-op student and upon graduating with a BSEE took a full time position supporting one of the “NAFEC” simulation labs. Eventually he found himself and his new family leaving the FAA and moving across the country to California, Florida, and back to New Jersey all while working on large complex systems with systems engineering as the common thread. Several years ago he was invited to University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University to offer some of his insights to the next generation. Walt now mixes education and work with systems engineering.
Delaware Valley Chapter Meeting
Tuesday evening, November 10, 2015
Joint meeting with the Penn Systems Engineering Club; gathering starts at 6 pm.
Speakers:
Bill Miller (Innovative Decisions): "SE Lifecycles, Processes, and Lifecycle Management – What are they and how do they work?"
Walt Sobkiw (Cassbeth): "Agile in Systems Engineering - Round Table"
Place: Raisler Lounge, 2nd Floor, Towne Building, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
For more details, please see the meeting flyer (PDF):
Wednesday Sep 16, 2015
Present:
“The James Webb Space Telescope Mission”
Dr. Matt Greenhouse, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
The James Webb Space Telescope is the scientific successor to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). It is a cryogenic infrared space observatory with a 25 m2 aperture telescope that will extend humanities’ high angular resolution view of the universe into the infrared spectrum to reveal early epochs of the universe that the HST cannot see. The Webb’s science instrument payload includes four cryogenic near-infrared sensors that provide imagery, coronagraphy, and spectroscopy over the near- and mid-infrared spectrum. The JWST is being developed by NASA, in partnership with the European and Canadian Space Agencies, as a general user facility with science observations to be proposed by the international astronomical community in a manner similar to the HST. The Webb’s technology development and mission design are complete. Construction, integration and verification testing is underway in all areas of the program. The JWST is on schedule for launch during 2018.
Call in your reservations by noon on Tuesday, Sep 15th, to:
Joe Burns 609-485-4654 (W) joseph.f.burns@faa.gov
Mike Konyak 609-485-5655 (W) snj.aiaa@gmail.com
Holly Cyrus 609-485-4887 (W) Holly.Cyrus@faa.gov
Blue Heron Pines Golf Club
550 Country Club Dr, Egg Harbor City, NJ 08215
(609) 965-1800
Check their website for directions: www.blueheronpines.com
Social Time:
6:00 PM
Dinner:
6:30 PM
Speaker Approx:
7:45 PM
Buffet style dinner
$17 AIAA/IEEE/INCOSE Members,
$21 ITEA/NSBE/HFES/Guests,
$13 Students
10th Annual Verification & Validation Summit
You are cordially invited to the 10th Annual Verification & Validation Summit September 23-24, 2015 sponsored by the FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center in Atlantic City, NJ. Registration is free.
About the Summit
The V&V Summit will include speakers and discussions addressing innovative methods and strategies that embrace V&V philosophies and principles critical to moving the next generation air transportation system (NextGen) initiatives forward. Key objectives of the summit are:
● Foster a V&V best practices and corporate V&V philosophy
● Explore new and practical ways to apply V&V that better support acquisitions and decision making
● Promote V&V disciplines and culture
● Highlight “real world” ways to incorporate V&V into organizational operations
Who Should Attend
● Managers and executives involved with or dependent on V&V
● T&E engineers/specialists, system engineers, and research and development practitioners
● Acquisition stakeholder involved with or relying on quality V&V
Location
Resorts Casino Hotel
1133 Boardwalk
Atlantic City, NJ 08401
www.resortsac.com Point of Contact
John Frederick
609-485-5259
john.frederick@faa.gov Summit Registration
Request must be sent by email to Viola Gray (
viola.ctr.gray@faa.gov), phone number: 609-485-7126. Include your Name, Email, Government Agency or Contractor Name, and Organization Identifier. Federal employees and Contractors with an FAA.Gov email address will get 14 hours FAA eLearning Management System (eLMS) credit (Item ID FAA30020006) if registered for both days of the Summit.
Please register by August 28, 2015.
Hotel Reservations
Reservations must be made by September 11, 2015 by 5:00pm EST to receive the Summit Rate for rooms blocked. Call 1-888-797-7700. Reservation requests should be made for the “FAA V&V Summit”. V&V Summit Group Code: VFAA15.
Thank You
Walt Sobkiw
INCOSE Delaware Valley Chapter
Model Based Systems Design and SysML
Speaker: Laura Hart, Systems Engineer – Senior Staff, Lockheed Martin Corporation.
Abstract
This presentation will provide an overview and rationale for utilizing Model-Based System Development (MBSD) concepts to define architecture, interfaces, requirements traceability, analysis and trades using the four SysML pillars of structure, behavior, requirements and parametrics.
Bio
Laura Hart, is a Systems Engineer Sr Stf at Lockheed Martin IS&GS-National, in King of Prussia PA. She is a Sr. member of the Corporate Engineering and Technology Advanced Practices group responsible for codifying and promoting Model Based System Development (MBSD) best practices across the LM Corporation. She provides MBSD program startup assists and teaches both a SysML (System Modeling Language) course and a Rational Rhapsody for SE course. She has over twenty years of industry experience covering a wide spectrum of responsibilities including requirements, design, implementation and test in the DoD industry. Laura is an active member of the OMG and supports both the SysML and UPDM language specifications.
Date
Thursday, July 30, 2015
$10 for the buffet meal (students $5)
Agenda
5:30 to 6:30 pm: Arrival and Meal at Ramblewood Country Club
6:30 to 6:45 pm: Chapter Business
6:45 to 7:45 pm: Speaker
7:45 to 8:00 pm: Wrap Up
Place
Ramblewood Country Club, 200 Country Club Parkway, Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054
Directions to Ramblewood Country Club:
From Wilmington
• Take the NJ Turnpike to Exit 4 and take Route 73 South
• Proceed on Route 73 South to the third traffic light from the turnpike and turn left on Church Road
• Proceed on Church Road 0.5mi and turn left on Country Club Parkway
• The Clubhouse is 0.25mi on your left
From the Tacony/Palmyra Bridge or the Betsy Ross Bridge
• Take Route 73 South
• Proceed on Route 73 South to the third traffic light from the turnpike and turn left onto Church Road
• Proceed on Church Road 0.5mi and turn left onto Country Club Parkway
• The Clubhouse is 0.25mi on the left
From Atlantic City
• Take the Atlantic City Expressway to Route 73 North
• Take Route 73 North and turn right onto Church Road
• Proceed on Church Road 0.5mi and turn left onto Country Club Parkway
• The Clubhouse is 0.25mi on the left
Please contact (john.hoban@L-3com.com) if you plan to attend this event – deadline; Tuesday, July 28th, 2015, to be included in the meal count.
For further information about the International Council on Systems Engineering please visit the INCOSE website at http://www.incose.org/ and the Delaware Valley Chapter website at http://www.incose.org/ChaptersGroups/Chapters/ChapterSites/delaware-valley/chapter-home.
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Featured Presentation: “The James Webb Space Telescope Mission”
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