2009 Program Theme

1. 2009Program Theme Practical Applications of Systems Engineering Emphasis – The Program Life Cycle

2. Tonight’s Agenda • 6:15 PM – Registration, Networking, Timber Lodge Appetizers • 6:45 PM – Welcome and Chapter Overview Neill Radke, Chapter Co-President • 7:00 PM – Application of a Global Systems Engineering Competency Framework; INCOSE 2009 Paper Eileen Arnold • 7:45 PM – Personal Rapid Transit Design and Progress Dr. Ed Anderson • 8:30 PM – Adjourn

3. Chapter Meeting • Chapter Calendar • Chapter Organization • ChapterCommunications • INCOSE Events • SE Certification • Job Opportunities

4. 2009 Meeting Calendar • 8 January– SE Initiatives at Starkey Labs, with a detailed tour of the Starkey facilities • Starkey Laboratories • 12 February – SE in Production Systems with a tour of the PaR Facilities PaR Systems • 12 March – SE in a Student Project Wayzata High School • 16 April– SE in Determining Interfaces • Medtronic (MTS Corporation as Host) • 28 May – SE in the Solar House Student Project National Competition University of Minnesota • 18 June – Dry run of papers for INCOSE 2009 plus a special report on worldwide progress in developing the Personal Rapid Transit – PRT - System • Eden Prairie Timber Lodge

5. 2009 Meeting Calendar • 12 July – The North Star Summer Social, including IS 2009 Debrief Lake Minnetonka Cruise on the 1906 Steamboat Minnehaha Dinner at Biella Italian Restaurant - Excelsior • 13 August – SE in Operations and Maintenance Xcel Energy • 10 September –SE in Determining Architecture Eaton Corporation • 8 October – SE in Architecture and Trade Studies Lockheed • 12 November – SE in Requirements Development Honeywell • 13 December – Annual North Star Holiday Party Place - TBD

6. Attendance • Why sign in? • For the past several years we have had the chapter incentive program to encourage attendance at our meetings. • For 2009, two $25 gift certificates for the TimberLodge Restaurant will be awarded to any member attending six or more regular meetings or who brings one new member into the chapter. • For guests or members attending for the first time, this also insures your notification by email of all subsequent events. BE SURE AND SIGN THE ATTENDANCE LIST! PLEASE WRITE SO WE CAN READ IT!!

7. Donations • Attendance at our meetings is Growing but so is the cost of Pizza (and Timber Lodge appetizers!) • We will continue to have networking time and serve appetizers and soft drinks. • We ask that you help us a bit by making a voluntary donation. • You decide if and the amount and place it in the gold box. Many thanks, your response so far has been most helpful

8. Fall TutorialEarly Alert! • Topic: System Integration, Test, Evaluation (SITE) • Introduction to SITE • SITE Entry Criteria • Preparation for SITE • SITE Conduct • SITE Exit Criteria • System Validation • SITE Programmatic and Technical Planning • Presenter: Charles Wasson • Date: Saturday, 14 November • Place: Lockheed Martin, Eagan, MN

9. 2009Chapter Organization President Neill Radke & John Palmer North Star Leadership Communication Eileen Arnold Past President Elliot Abrons Secretary Bob Hunter Dir. Industry Mark Feitel Treasurer Mark Elpers President Elect Mark Elpers Dir. Acad/Govt Eileen Arnold • Contact Eileen Arnold • Systems Science • SE Technical Process • Architecture • SE Management Process • Requirements • Risk • SE Support Processes • Measurement • Modeling & Tools • Specialty Engineering • Application Sectors INCOSE Certification Advisory Group (CAG) Eileen Arnold – Chair CAG Project Manager Dave Walden Technical Operations

10. Communication North Star Chapter Web Site: www.incose.org/northstar • North Star Newsletter – The Integrator • June 2009 issue to be published and viewable/downloadable on 21 June • North Star Chapter Meeting Information • Charts from past meetings are viewable and downloadable on the website

11. INCOSE Events June 22 – 26, 2009: PSM (Practical Software and Systems Measurement ) Orlando, Florida July 15, 2009: Terminal 5 Rail Project: An Untold Success Story INCOSE Webinar July 19 - 23, 2009: INCOSE International Symposium Singapore July 11 - 15, 2010: INCOSE International Symposium Chicago Details online @http://www.incose.org 11

12. Professional Certification Program International Council on Systems Engineering has established a multi-level Professional Certification Program to provide a formal method for recognizing the knowledge and experience of systems engineers, regardless of where they may be in their career.

13. Job Opportunities For opportunities, either with your company or that you know of: • Go to www.incose.org • Select “Education and Careers” • Select “Post a Job” • Create an account • Post job openings • Select “View Jobs” to see the listings

14. Project Planning Project Assessment Project Control Information Management Decision Making Risk Management Configuration Management Operation Validation Stakeholder Validation Operation Stakeholder Requirements Definition Requirements Definition Transition Transition Maintenance Maintenance Requirements Analysis Quality Management Verification Requirements Analysis Verification Disposal Disposal Integration Architectural Design Architectural Design Integration Implementation Implementation Acquisition System Life Cycle Process Management Enterprise Environment Management Supply Resource Management Investment Management ISO 15288 Systems Engineering Project Life Cycle

15. Eileen Arnold Eileen Arnold, CSEP-ASQ, is currently a principal systems engineer at BAE Systems in Fridley, Minnesota. She has 29 years of experience in the engineering and management of HW, SW, and Systems to include product development, modeling and simulation, SE competency, measurement/analysis, and systems life cycle process for both the commercial and defense sector. She is currently Co-Chair of the INCOSE Certification Advisory Group (CAG). She helped start the INCOSE Heartland Chapter and is most active in the North Star Chapter acting as the Director of Government and Academia, editor of the chapter newsletter The Integrator and as web master of the chapter web site. She has been President of both Chapters.

16. Ed Anderson • Dr. Ed Anderson was a professor of Mechanical Engineering at the U of MN for 23 years where he worked on the theory and application of Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) systems. He chaired four international conferences on PRT, lectured and gave courses widely in the U. S. and abroad on transit systems analysis and design, authored the textbook Transit Systems Theory, and published over 100 technical papers, mostly on PRT topics. In 1981, he initiated the design of a new PRT system, and in 1986, he moved to Boston University as a Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering where he formed an industry team with members from five Boston-area companies to carry his PRT design to the point that in 1989 it attracted the attention of the Chicago RTA and Raytheon Company. In 1994, he moved back to the Minneapolis area where he has continued to work on commercialization of his system, which he now calls an “Intelligent Transportation Network System” (ITNS).