2012

INCOSE Annual Report

ABOUT INCOSE
The International Council on Systems EngineeringINCOSEis a professional
membership organization founded to develop and disseminate the interdisciplinary principles and practices that enable the realization of successful systems.
Visionaries from industry, academia and government recognized the need for
more engineers who possessed systems thinking capability able to deliver project
results on-time, within budget and performance requirements.
An immediate and continuing benefit to members is a collaborative environment
in which colleagues can share best practices, not only of systems engineering,
but also of professional development. 2012 marked our twenty-second year and,
in that time, INCOSE has grown to over nine thousand members (as of 1 June
2013) representing a broad spectrum from student to senior practitioner; from
technical specialist to corporate senior manager; from scientist and engineer to
business development professional in commerce and industry; from educators
and researchers in academic institutions to those serving their countries
through the military and in government agencies. INCOSE is truly a community
of members working together to advance their technical knowledge, exchange
ideas, and promote the value of systems engineering.

INCOSE Important
Statistics

3 Geographic Sectors
64Fellows
44 International working
groups

INCOSE MISSION AND VISION

INCOSEs mission statement commits its members to share, promote and
advance the best of systems engineering from across the globe for the benefit
of humanity and the planet.
The INCOSE Vision provides the focus to be recognized as the worlds authority
on Systems Engineering.

65Chapters
88 Corporate and Academic

Advisory Board members

123 Book contributions

from INCOSE Fellows

INCOSE GOALS
Provide a focal point for dissemination of systems engineering
knowledge;
Promote international collaboration in systems engineering practice,
education and research;
Assure the establishment of competitive, scalable professional standards
in the practice of systems engineering;
Improve the professional status of all persons engaged in the practice of
systems engineering;
Encourage governmental and industrial support for research and
educational programs that will improve the systems engineering process
and its practice.
INCOSEs organization, operations and initiatives all exist to serve these
overarching goals.

1400 Certified Systems

Engineering
professionals

8344 Individual members

TABLE OF CONTENTS
About INCOSE
INCOSE Mission and Vision
INCOSE Goals

Message From the President

The Year In Review (continued)

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INCOSE Financials
Financial Report

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INCOSE Events Calendar 2012

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The Year In Review

Certification
Technical Operations
IT Infrastructure
Academic Matters
INCOSE Fellows
Strategy

Industry Outreach
International Outreach
Corporate Advisory Board
Communication/Publications/Social Media

INCOSE Global Events2012

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Awards 2012
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Chapter Awards

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Board of Directors 2012

Administrative Office

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INCOSE Corporate Advisory Board Companies

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INCOSE Geographic Sectors

sector i: Americas
sector ii: Africa, Europe, Russia, Israel and Turkey
sector iii: Asia (excluding, Russia, Israel and Turkey) and Oceania

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MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

I extend to you our members, systems
engineering colleagues, and systems
community stakeholders, a sincere
greeting from the International
Council on Systems Engineering. I
hope you will find this years annual
report useful and informative.
I believe our annual report stands on its own and feel
no need to summarize what you can easily find in these
pages. Instead, this note will highlight the focus and
priorities that provide the energy behind the results and
achievements of this year. There are three key business
imperatives for our organization. My focus has been laser
sharp on these imperatives, first as our President-Elect,
and now as President of INCOSE.
Business Imperative #1:It is in our best interests as
an organization serving its members and the world wide
community of systems engineers to advocate and promote:
That a system engineer is a multi-disciplinary leader,
professionally trained to deliver system behaviors
that provide value to the stakeholder.
That the systems engineering discipline is a critical
tool of the systems engineer. The underpinnings of
the discipline include both technical and management functions and can be tailored to a stakeholders
desired risk position.
That the well trained system engineer is a valuable
asset to their organization; an integral part of a
powerful leadership team in conjunction with the
program manager. This team resolves problems, takes
advantage of opportunities, and delivers desired
system performance within cost and schedule.
Business Imperative #2:To achieve the INCOSE mission
we must increase our organizations influence on worldwide
systems issues by deepening our leadership connections
and partnerships with sister organizations. INCOSEs relationships with sister organizations should mirror the relationships we have as system engineers. There are too many
candidates to share a complete list of such organizations.
But a few examples include organizations involved with:
Program Management

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The Engineering Disciplines:Mechanical, Electrical,

Civil, Chemical, Computer Science, Software
Safety, Privacy and Cyber (Information Security)
specializations
Reliability and Human Factors engineering
Test and Evaluation, Costing, & Acquisition
Business Imperative #3:To achieve the first and second
imperatives we require additional resources to implement
the thought leadership agenda of our mostly volunteer
organization. The breadth of increased resources includes:
Modernization of our Information Technology to
connect our distributed membership base and sister
organizations. Technology that is highly reliable
to enable distance learning, collaboration, and
synthesis of diverse perspectives.
The addition of professionals to support existing
operations and planning activities, help in execution
of our strategic agenda, and simultaneously provide
staff who can support the expansion of organizational
relationships.
Lastly, Id like to close with a short summary from the
executive summit held in Rome during our INCOSE 2012
International Symposium. A 16-page document of the
executive summit discussions called Pathways to
Influence can be found on our INCOSE web site. I urge
you to take a moment to download a copy for yourself.
Three points from that document are worth emphasizing:
1. The most important ability of a system engineer is
the ability to influence decisions.
2. The worlds greatest challenges need the power of
systems thinking and engineering.
3. INCOSE should work to ensure that demonstrated
leadership is recognized as a critical element of the
technical track to which so many systems engineers
aspire.

John A. Thomas,ESEP
john.thomas@incose.org

INCOSE FINANCIALS
FINANCIAL REPORT
In compliance with INCOSE policy, this is a
financial report of the 2012 fiscal year.
Although our world continues to experience
financial uncertainty, INCOSE continues to
maintain its mission to provide excellent service
to members. Increased revenue from individual
and CAB membership dues has allowed us to
meet our increased responsibilities in several ways. We continue to enable
the growth of the systems engineering profession through investments in
our certification program, along with supporting our conferences, academic
outreach, commercial outreach and support to our chapters and sectors.
INCOSEs income for 2012 was USD 1,712,000 (112% of plan), while expenses
were USD 1,627,000 (101% of plan). This left us with a net surplus of USD
85,000. This income growth over the year was due to increased symposium
income, certification application fees, CAB and individual membership dues.
Our combined membership dues continue to provide approximately 75% of our
operating income. In 2011, we initiated the opportunity to pay dues for 3 and 5
years, at a savings to members. Since then, 462 people have taken advantage of
this opportunity. In addition, 287 people take advantage of the Senior member
level. The expenses include various items such as sharing dues revenue with
chapters, certification expenses, information-technology expenses, publication
expenses, marketing, meeting costs to support Technical Operations, and the
cost of running the administrative office. The INCOSE Board of Directors plans
to continue its efforts over the next few years to enable our organization not
only to grow, but to increase our income by supplying valuable products and
services to our members and to all systems engineers and associations.

INCOME

364

student
members

287

senior
members

462

multi-year
members

EXPENSES
Chapter Shares
Communications
IT Hosting & Development
Advertising Revenue

Admin

Certification Revenue

Certification

CAB Dues

Publications

Membership Dues

INCOSE Foundation

Events Income

Academic

Job Bank Income

Facilities, Insurance

Member Publications

Marketing

Product Sales

Tech Operations
Printing, Postage
Legal
Strategy Invenstments
Sectors

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THE YEAR IN REVIEW

CERTIFICATION

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13%

INCOSEs Professional Certification Program continued to grow in 2012, both in

terms of reputation and numbers of SEPs. The INCOSE certification program
continues to be the worldwide standard for recognizing systems engineering
professionals according to Program Manager Dave Walden, ESEP.

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members are
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As shown in Figure 1, INCOSE ended 2012 with over 1400 certified professionals,
a 32% increase for the year. INCOSE certifications have been awarded in 24
countries. Several organizations have entered formal agreements with INCOSE
regarding certification and two organizations now have more than 150 SEPs.
INCOSE SEP credentials are being used as part of the process for the promoting
and hiring of systems engineers. Each year, more and more organizations are
using the INCOSE SEP credentials as a discriminator in their acquisition and
supply activities.

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To position the program for future growth, and after a rigorous application and
interview process, INCOSE has selected Courtney Wright, CSEP, as the new
Certification Deputy Program Manager. About her new position, Courtney said,
I was grateful to be chosen as the new DPM. I am excited to work with the
INCOSE certification team to bring the program even more success. Courtney
will assume the role of Certification Program Manager in July of 2013.

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TECHNICAL OPERATIONS
Technical Operations brings value to INCOSE stakeholders
by providing information through events, products,
working group participation and technical information
repositories. Led by Jean-Claude Roussel and Bill Miller,
Technical Director and Deputy Technical Director
respectively, 2012 saw 44 formally chartered international
working groups and two major initiatives: Model Based
Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Standards. Technical
Operations also provides technical resources to INCOSE
projects such as BKCASE and SE Vision 2025.

Finally, 2012 included increased communication and

interaction with the CAB to analyze the needs of industry,
government and academia and to respond to those needs
through products and Webinars.
INCOSE Working-Group Awards presented at the
2012 International Workshop

There were several notable accomplishments in 2012:

Harmonization of working group activities by mapping
group objectives to ISO/IEC 15288 and the INCOSE SE
Handbook to assess coverage and gaps
Creation of four new working groups:
Model Based Concept Engineering WG (from a
SESA/Australian Chapter initiative)
Object Oriented Systems Engineering Method
(OOSEM) WG (from Chesapeake Chapter initiative)
INCOSE/PMI Alliance WG to reinforce the link between
Systems Engineering and Project Management
Agile System Engineering WG
In addition, an Automotive Special Interest Group
was launched at the international symposium
Issuance of significant Technical Products:
Lean Enablers for Managing Engineering Programs
(joint MIT-INCOSE-PMI initiative) in May 2012
Guide for the Application of Systems Engineering in
Large Infrastructure Projects in June 2012
Guide for Writing Requirements in June 2012
SEBoK (Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge
from BKCASE) in September 2012
GRCSE (Graduate Reference Curriculum for Systems
Engineering from BKCASE) in December 2012
Technical Operations contributed significant efforts to
reviewing and finalizing SEBoK and GRCSE throughout
2012. In the second half of the year, work was launched to
prepare a new version (V4) of the SE Handbook, to align
with SEBoK V1.0 and the upcoming release of an updated
ISO/IEC 15288.

IT INFRASTRUCTURE
In 2012, INCOSE invested in an IT infrastructure solution
that supports the increased IT needs of the organization.
When fully launched, this solution will use proven and
mature technology to support organizational growth,
increase revenue, and realize our goals. INCOSE selected
Appnovation to develop the new site in 2012. The new
website will replace both the public incose.org site and the
access-controlled connect.incose.org.
The goal of this new site is to increase the value of INCOSE
membership by continuing to support and expand core
functions of the current site while providing a common
platform for members, chapters, working groups, and other
collaboration sites. A common platform will streamline
training and support issues while the new tools provided
by the IT infrastructure will empower members to establish
connections and foster improved collaboration across
organizational and geographical boundaries.

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THE YEAR IN REVIEW (continued)

The new site is built on open source platforms that facilitate
modular expansion of new functions for all members. To
promote organizational sustainability, the site will enable
INCOSE to bring in revenue through a mature storefront
that offers the sale of electronic products to non-members
such as the SE Handbook and individual papers now
located within the iPub database. After implementation
is complete, the site will leverage integrated analytics to
measure effectiveness and continuously improve based on
these metrics.

STRATEGY
The natural lifecycle of all organizations includes a time
when leaders review and reflect. In 2012 INCOSE began a
process to measure itself against its mission. The initial
results show progress toward achieving stated goals, a
direction to meet emerging new goals and affirmation that
the organization remains on track as the leading authority
for systems engineering in the world.

ACADEMIC MATTERS
The value of INCOSE to the academic community continued
to grow during 2012. GRCSE, the Graduate Reference Curriculum for Systems Engineering (www.bkcase.org/grcse)
a set of recommendations for masters programs in systems
engineeringwas published, along with the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (www.sebokwiki.org). INCOSE
will jointly manage both products with the IEEE Computer
Society and the Systems Engineering Research Center.
Based on recommendations from INCOSE and the Institute
of Industrial Engineers, US News and World Report agreed
to begin ranking systems engineering graduate programs
in the US in a combined industrial/manufacturing/systems
engineering category. The first rankings came out in
April 2013.
Articles from Systems Engineering, INCOSEs flagship
publication, were downloaded more than 37,000 times in
2012the largest number of downloads ever. At the end
of 2012, MIT Professor Oli deWeck was selected as editorin-chief of Systems Engineering, taking over that role from
Professor Andy Sage, who retired after more than a decade
of dedicated service.
INCOSE continued to sponsor FIRST Robotics and Engineering is Elementary as major components of its Youth
Outreach Initiative. Two new student divisions, at USC and
LMU, were launched, and 190 new students joined INCOSE.
The Academic Council expanded in number and geographic reach with 19 members representing universities
from Europe, Asia, North America, and Australia.

In this era of accelerating change INCOSE is committed

to producing the Systems Engineering Vision 2025, a
collaborative forecast of the anticipated trends and
implications on systems engineering theory and practice.
The development of the SE Vision 2025 began in 2012 with
a preliminary document of consensus created by engaging
with other organizations and institutions having an interest
in Systems Engineering. INCOSE anticipates that this will
support the future directions, provide guidance to SE stakeholders and partners worldwide and reinforce the position
of INCOSE as the Systems Engineering thought leader.
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INCOSE FELLOWS
INCOSE Fellows are individuals with significant verifiable
contributions to the art and practice of systems engineering in industry, government and academia. A survey
conducted in 2012 showed that the INCOSE Fellows have
produced over 123 published works in books, chapters and
editorial contributions.
The Fellows serve as judges for three INCOSE Awards.
One is the International Science and Engineering Fair
(ISEF), where the INCOSE Award is given to the best

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interdisciplinary project that can produce technologically
appropriate solutions to meet societal needs. The 2012
recipient was Kelles Diane Gordge of Great Mills High
School, Great Mills, Maryland for her project entitled
Direction Detection: A Novel Device For Detecting The
Approach of Emergency Vehicles.
In conjunction with the INCOSE Foundation, Fellows
selected the winners of two additional awards. The 2012
Stevens Institute of Technology Doctoral Award was
presented to Clement Smartt, CSEP. He is pursuing a
Ph.D. degree, with a focus in systems engineering at the
University of Texas at Arlington, is a Research Scientist
with the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). His
current research interests include architecture, proposal
management, modeling and simulation.
The 2012 James E. Long Memorial Post Doctoral Fellowship
was presented to Ola Batarseh, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the
H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. Her research interest is in modelbased systems engineering and discrete-event simulation.
Two new Fellows were initiated in 2012:Stephen Cook and
Olivier deWeck.

INDUSTRY OUTREACH
The Industry Steering Board, led by Anne ONeil, Director
for Industry Outreach, focuses on how to communicate
with and how to increase INCOSEs relevance to all industry
sectors. In the past several years INCOSE has witnessed
a growing number of companies and organizations in
automotive, ground transportation, biomedical/healthcare,
and power/energy sectors evaluate and apply systems
engineering in their respective domains.
The steering boards vision is to position INCOSE as a
source of knowledge of SE processes to sectors that have
not historically applied systems engineering. As complexity
and systems challenges increase, it is critical to understand
the underlying business needs and core competencies to
know which systems engineering tools and principles will
work best in the diverse domains.

INTERNATIONAL OUTREACH
Tat Soon Yeo is the Director for International Outreach.
With the help of appointed ambassadors, he develops,
implements, and maintains a strategy and plan for reaching out to untapped areas of high-potential membership.
The goal is to increase membership and member services
at the individual and corporate level on a global scale. The
goal is the same in all sectors: expand our reach to companies, organizations and systems engineers who are not
aware of INCOSE and foster a willingness to work together
and share the best practices of systems engineering. 2012
saw growth in membership numbers in each of the three
sectors, with a corresponding increase in certifications.

CORPORATE ADVISORY BOARD

In 2012, the INCOSE Corporate Advisory Board (CAB),
under the leadership of Garry Roedler and Max Berthold,
continued to influence INCOSE as a key stakeholder
group and expanded to almost 90 member organizations
(corporate, government, and academic).
The successful webinar series initiated by the CAB transitioned to Technical Operations in 2012.
During 2012, the CAB defined and started implementation
of efforts to ensure the CABs effectiveness as it continues
to grow. The efforts include better integration across
the INCOSE entities, interactive exchange on technical
program planning, a structured approach to address
CAB needs, and a framework to support CAB sponsored
projects. The improvements will further enable the
CAB role as a key advisory group and voice of the
customer. The CAB also continued its support for the
INCOSE IT infrastructure, including investment in the
knowledge/ content management. The improved access
to INCOSE products throughout CAB organizations,
along with improved collaboration and corporate login
environments, are intended to enhance the value of CAB
membership and the value of INCOSE.

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COMMUNICATION/PUBLICATIONS/SOCIAL MEDIA

In 2012, INCOSE used a variety of media channels to spread the word about its
accomplishments, events and other relevant topics. The INCOSE home page still
remains the most up-to-date source of news about chapters events, webinars,
and happenings.

Magazine

INSIGHT offers special features for and about INCOSE members, as well as
reporting on the state of the art and emerging practices within the field of
systems engineering. It started out as a newsletter and has since evolved to
a magazine published four times a year. A new Readers Choice award was
launched this year as an annual way for readers to indicate their opinions
about the best issues and individual articles.

Journals

The INCOSE journal, Systems Engineering, and The Journal of Enterprise

Transformation (JET), are also published quarterly. JET represents collaboration
with the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and is designed to provide a forum
for original articles on trends, new findings, and ongoing research related to
enterprise transformation. These journals are published by Wiley and Taylor &
Francis, respectively.

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Releases

We continue to expand our digital footprint through our presence in the social
media. Our Facebook page now boasts over 600 friends and our LinkedIn
group has grown from just over 2000 members to nearly 9000 members in
one year. This online presence supports dissemination of information, while
stimulating a healthy exchange of concepts and experiences. The LinkedIn
group alone generates nearly 200 comments each month.

600

Facebook
Friends

This year 25 press releases were generated, an article by Bill Miller was solicited
and published in CrossTalk, and Reuters ran an op-ed piece about rebuilding
post-Sandy with a systems engineering approach, by INCOSE President John A.
Thomas and Dr. Ali Mostashari with contributions from IS2012 keynote Andrew
McNaughton.

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Engineering Health-Care Systems

Clinical Engineering: A Systems Focus on the Point of Care

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Applying Systems Engineering to Improve Extracorporeal

Membrane Oxygenation Therapy

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Meet Harold Bud Lawson
Meet Mark Maier
Meet James Martin
Meet Gerrit Muller
Meet Gregory Parnell
Meet Andy Sage
Meet Walt Sobkiw
Meet Charles Wasson
Meet Tim Weilkiens

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INCOSE Spotlight
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Reflections from the 2012 International Workshop
Management:
Complementary Disciplines, or Competing
Systems and Software Engineering
Standards for
Determinism and Determination in Socio-Technological
Paradigms?
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Very Small Entities
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INCOSE Spotlight on . . . Brad Peck
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Non-Determinism in Systems Engineering
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Book Reviews
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A Test-of-Design Rubric for Autonomous Systems
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INCOSE Events
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System Development Progress Disambiguation
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Competency
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INCOSE Spotlight
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The 6th Annual Asia-Pacific Conference on Systems Engaging the Grid of the Future: Power and Energy Systems Track 29
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Engineering, Brisbane, Australia
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INCOSE Spotlight on . . . INCOSE Ambassador Grace Najjar
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Biomedical Industry Roundtable
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Ontology in Engineering Systems
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INCOSE Spotlight on . . . INCOSE Ambassador Nauman Arshad 52
INCOSE Spotlight
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The Top 12 Signs You Are a Systems Engineer
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INCOSE Spotlight on . . . David M. Springstead
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Technical Operations
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David Michael Hedley Wright
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INCOSE Crosses
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People on the Move
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David Wright: A Photo Essay
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INCOSEs Liaison Representation at Recent ISO
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Seven Years and Counting: The 2012 Workshop of INCOSEs
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INCOSE EVENTS CALENDAR 2012

The International Symposium is the flagship
event for INCOSE and Systems Engineers
worldwide. Volunteers, who are the nexus
of this organization, also gather annually

at the International Workshop. In addition to

those two major events, INCOSE events occur
worldwide throughout the year.

INCOSE GLOBAL EVENTS2012

(selected list)

International Workshop (IW2012)

Jacksonville, Florida

MORS Affordability Workshop

Arlington, Virginia

Ontologies influences in Systems Engineering

Carlos III, Madrid University Spain

6th Annual INCOSE Great Lakes Regional Conference

Schaumburg, Illinois

Conference on Systems Engineering Research (CSER)

St. Louis, Missouri

ICSSEA 2012 24th International Conference

Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France

SETE/APCOSE 2012
Brisbane, Australia

Fourth Annual Medical Device Connectivity Conference

and Exhibition|Joseph B Martin Conference Center at
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

1st Annual Systems Engineering in Washington DC

(SEDC 2012)|Washington, DC
2012 Industrial and Systems Engineering Research
Conference|Hilton Creek, Orlando Florida
Kongsberg Systems Engineering Event (KSEE)
Buskerud University College, Kongsberg, Norway
The Third International Symposium on Engineering
SystemsCESUN 2012|Delft, The Netherlands
22nd Annual International Symposium (IS2012)
Rome, Italy
INCOSE Systems Science WG sponsor session at
ISSS 2012|Rome, Italy
IEEE SOSE 2012
Genoa, Italy
16th ANNUAL PSM Users Group Meetings and
Workshops|Portsmouth, Virginia
9th Annual INCOSE South Africa Chapter Conference
Pretoria, South Africa

ASEC2012Building a Better Future

University of Warwick, Coventry United Kingdom
3rd International CSDM
Paris, France
The INCOSE Webinar series is also conducted throughout
the year. Selected titles from 2012 include:
Foundations of Relational Complexity Theory
Dr. John J. Kineman
IceCube as an Engineering Case Study
Randall C. Iliff
Nine Laws of Effective Systems Engineering
Zane Scott
The Organization Mind-Set: Learning to Think and Act
in Terms of Systems
Professor Harold Bud Lawson
Agile Systems and ProcessesNecessary and Sufficient
Fundamental Architecture
Rick Dove

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AWARDS 2012
pioneer: David Arthur Hall, III(Posthumous) (USA)
Jung Euk Seo (Korea)
founders: Valerie Gundrum (USA)
outstanding service:
Eileen Arnold (USA)
Don Boyer (USA)
Bruce Elliott (USA)
Robert Levin (USA)

working group awards:

Product of the Year|BKCASE/SEBoK & GRCSE
Sustained Performance|Systems Science WG
Sustained Performance|Requirements WG
Sustained Performance|SE for VSME WG
Achieving the SE Vision|UK Chapter
Collaboration|Lean Systems Engineering WG/
Lean Enabler for PM Sub Group
Collaboration|SESA/Australian Chapter

CHAPTER AWARDS
presidents award for outstanding chapter
South Africa Chapter
directors award for most improved chapter
Three Rivers Chapter
gold circle award
AFIS
Chesapeake
Enchantment
Hampton Roads
Israel
Los Angeles

Michigan
North Star
Orlando
South Africa
Southern Maryland
Three Rivers

silver circle award

Atlanta
Australia
Chicagoland
ClevelandNorthern Ohio
Colorado Front Range
Finger Lakes
Midwest Gateway

San Diego
San Francisco
Singapore
Snake River
Texas Gulf Coast
Washington Metro Area

bronze circle award

Alamo

Chapter Award recipients at the

2012 International Workshop
(Photos by Tim Ferris)

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2012

president:John Thomas, ESEP, Booz Allen Hamilton (retired)
president-elect: David Wright, Lockheed Martin UK (deceased July 2012)
David Long, Vitech Corporation (December 2012)
secretary:Richard Grzybowski, Corning
treasurer:Marsha Weiskopf, The Aerospace Corporation
technical director:Jean-Claude Roussel, EADS
director for strategy:Ralf Hartmann, Astrium Satellites
director for international growth:T.S. Yeo, Temasek Defence Systems Institute
director for commercial outreach:Anne ONeil, New York City Transit
director for academic matters:Arthur Pyster, Stevens Institute of Technology
director for it:Ryan Mortimer, Lockheed Martin Corporation
director for communications:Cecilia Haskins, CSEP, NTNU
corporate advisory board:Garry Roedler, Lockheed Martin
americas sector director:Ray Jorgensen, Rockwell Collins
emea sector director:Asmus Pandikow, Syntell AB
asia-oceania sector director:Horng Leong Lim, Singapore Ministry of Defense
board member:Eric Belle

ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE
managing executive:Holly Witte
operations manager:Christine Kowalski
The INCOSE Annual Report 2012 was produced by INCOSE Administration. Every attempt
has been made to be accurate. Please address any comments to: info@incose.org

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INCOSE CORPORATE ADVISORY BOARD COMPANIES

Air Force Center for Systems Engineering

Honeywell International

SAIC

Airservices Australia

IBM Corporation

Sandia National Laboratories

Alliant Techsystems

JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration

Agency)

Scitor Corporation

Analytic Services-Applied Systems

Thinking Institute

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Selex ES, a Finmeccanica Company

Serco-NA

Astrium an EADS Company

Johns Hopkins University

ATKINS

KEIO University

BAE Systems

L-3 Communications

Singapore University of Technology

and Design

Bechtel

Lockheed Martin Corporation

SRA International

Beihang University School of Reliability

& Systems Engineering

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Stevens Institute of Technology

ManTech International Corporation

Swedish Defence Materiel

Administration

Boeing Commercial Airplane Co.

Boeing Defense, Space & SecurityEast
Boeing Defense, Space & Security
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
C.S. Draper Laboratory, Inc.
Carnegie Mellon University Software
Engineering Institute

MAP systeme
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Medtronic, Inc.
Missouri University of Science &
Technology

Siemens

TASC, Inc.
Tectura Corporation
Thales
The Aerospace Corporation

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

The MITRE Corporation

Nanyang Technological University

The SI

Cranfield University

National Aeronautics and Space

Administration

The University of New South Wales,

Canberra

Cummins, Inc.

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

UK MoD

Defense Acquisition University

National Reconnaissance Office

United Technologies Corporation

Deloitte

National University of Singapore

University of Maryland

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense

for Systems Engineering, US
Department of Defense

Naval Postgraduate School

University of South Australia Defense

and Systems Institute

CASSIDIAN

DRS Technologies, Inc.

EADS N.V.
Exelis
Federal Aviation Administration (U.S.)
Ford Motor Company
General Dynamics
General Electric
George Mason University

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Naval Surface Warfare CenterDahlgren

Division

University of Southern California

Northrop Grumman Corporation

University of Texas at El Paso

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

US Army ARDEC

Procter & Gamble

US Army TARDEC

Project Performance International

Vitech Corporation

Raytheon Corporation

Volvo Construction Equipment

Rockwell Collins, Inc.

Woodward Inc

Rolls-Royce

Worcester Polytechnic Institute- WPI

Saab AB

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