Chapter Overview 16 April 2009 North Star Chapter Program Theme Practical Applications of Systems Engineering Emphasis – The Program Life Cycle

Chapter Overview 16 April 2009 North Star Chapter 2 Tonights Agenda 6:15 PM – Registration, Networking, Pizza 6:45 PM – Welcome and Chapter Overview John Palmer, Chapter Co-President 7:00 PM – The Process for Interface Identification & Description Mark Elpers 8:30 PM – Adjourn

Chapter Overview 16 April 2009 North Star Chapter 3 Chapter Calendar A note on attendance INCOSE Events Chapter Organization SE Certification Chapter Web Site Job Opportunities Chapter Meeting

Chapter Overview 16 April 2009 North Star Chapter 4 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) 14 May – SE in the Solar House Student Project National Competition University of Minnesota 11 June – Dry run of papers for INCOSE 2009 plus a tour of the ION Corporation laboratory facility ION Corporation 2009 Meeting Calendar

Chapter Overview 16 April 2009 North Star Chapter 5 9 July – The North Star Summer Social, including IS 2009 Debrief Place - TBD 13 August – SE in Design ADC Corporation 10 September – SE in Determining Architecture Eaton Corporation 8 October – SE in Operations and Maintenance Xcel Energy 12 November – SE in Requirements Development Honeywell 13 December – Annual North Star Holiday Party Place - TBD 2009 Meeting Calendar

Chapter Overview 16 April 2009 North Star Chapter Spring Tutorial Identifies the elements and benefits of a complete, proven system engineering process Demonstrates its applicability and contribution towards project success using vignettes from sample Systems and System of Systems (SoS) applications. Illustrates, using examples from Vitechs CORE systems engineering tool, how the model-based system engineering process supports both document-driven and model- based paradigms for milestone reviews; and also top-down, middle-out, or reverse engineering environments. Discusses how to know when each element of the process has been completed, and how to develop and validate functional and physical architectures using executable architectures. Boston Scientific, One Scimed Place, Maple Grove, MN - Saturday, 25 April, 2009 – SPRING TUTORIAL INCOSE NORTH STAR CHAPTER Model-Based Systems Engineering for Project Success: The Complete Process Only One Day Left to Register!

Chapter Overview 16 April 2009 North Star Chapter 7 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 of all subsequent events. Attendance BE SURE AND SIGN THE ATTENDANCE LIST! PLEASE WRITE SO WE CAN READ IT!!

Chapter Overview 16 April 2009 North Star Chapter Attendance at our meetings is Growing but so is the cost of Pizza! We will continue to have networking time and serve pizza and soft drinks. We ask that you help us a bit by making a voluntary donation. You decide the amount and place it in the gold box. PIZZA 8 Many thanks, your response so far has been most helpful

Chapter Overview 16 April 2009 North Star Chapter 9 INCOSE Events Details April , 2009: Conference on Systems Engineering Research Loughborough, UK April 20 – 23, 2009: INCOSE/Systems & Software Technology Conference Salt Lake City, Utah April 28, 2009: Accelerating Innovations in Medical Care Southfield, Missouri June 15 – 17, 2009: International Engineering Systems Symposium MIT, Cambridge Massachusetts July , 2009: INCOSE International Symposium Singapore

Chapter Overview 8 May 2008 North Star Chapter Chapter Overview 16 April Chapter Organization INCOSE Certification Advisory Group (CAG) Eileen Arnold – Chair CAG Project Manager Dave Walden Contact Eileen Arnold Systems Science SE Technical Process Architecture SE Management Process Requirements Risk SE Support Processes Measurement Modeling & Tools Specialty Engineering Application Sectors President Neill Radke & John Palmer Secretary Bob Hunter Treasurer Mark Elpers Dir. Industry Mark Feitel President Elect Mark Elpers Past President Elliot Abrons Dir. Acad/Govt Eileen Arnold North Star Leadership Communication Eileen Arnold Technical Operations

Chapter Overview 8 May 2008 North Star Chapter Chapter Overview 16 April 2009 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.

Chapter Overview 16 April 2009 North Star Chapter Communication North Star Chapter Web Site: North Star Newsletter – The Integrator –February 2008 issue published and viewable/downloadable on the website –Next issue published shortly North Star Chapter Meeting Information –Charts from past meetings are viewable/ downloadable on the website

Chapter Overview 16 April 2009 North Star Chapter For opportunities, either with your company or that you know of: Go to –Select Education and Careers –Select Post a Job –Create an account –Post job openings –Select View Jobs to see the listings Job Opportunities 13

Chapter Overview 16 April 2009 North Star Chapter ISO Systems Engineering Project Life Cycle Stakeholder Requirements Definition VerificationRequirements Analysis Transition Architectural Design Validation Implementation Operation Integration Maintenance Disposal Project PlanningProject Assessment Project Control Decision MakingRisk ManagementConfiguration Management Information Management Stakeholder Requirements Definition VerificationRequirements Analysis Transition Architectural Design Validation Implementation Operation Integration Maintenance Disposal Enterprise Environment Management System Life Cycle Process Management Quality Management Resource ManagementInvestment Management Supply Acquisition

Chapter Overview 8 May 2008 North Star Chapter An Early System Specification Genesis 6:13-16 So God said to Noah,... make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. Make a roof for it and finish the ark to within 18 inches of the top. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks… Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION ®, Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved. If Systems Engineering is good enough for God, it is good enough for us!

Chapter Overview 8 May 2008 North Star Chapter Chapter Overview 16 April 2009 Mark Elpers Mark Elpers' 22-year career has spanned the disciplines of systems engineering, HW design, test and continuation engineering in the telecommunications, semiconductor, defense and medical industries. Mark was graduated from the University Of Minnesota in 1985 with a BSEE. He is an INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) and holds 9 US patents. Mark is currently working as a Principle Product Engineer in the Hardware Architecture group of the Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management (CRDM) Division of Medtronic.