Chapter Overview 23 February 2012 North Star Chapter 1 Tonights Schedule 6:15 PM – Networking and Socialize over Pizza and Soft Drinks 6:45 PM – Welcome

Chapter Overview23 February 2012North Star Chapter

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Tonight’s Schedule

• 6:15 PM – Networking and Socialize over Pizza and Soft

Drinks

• 6:45 PM – Welcome and Chapter Overview

Elliot Abrons, 2012 Co-President

• 7:00 PM – “ReconRobotics Introduction”

Dr. Andrew Drenner, Director of Engineering and

Patrick J. McKinney, ReconRobotics COO

• 7:15 PM – Tour of ReconRobotics

• 8:30 PM – Adjourn


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2012 Program Theme

Systems Engineering

In Large, Medium & Small Companies


23 February: An Introduction and Tour of ReconRobotics

ReconRobotics, Presentation and Host

29 March: Intelligence & Decision Support Tools for the Systems Engineer

Ridgedale Library

19 April: SAVI Technology as a Modeling Tool

Honeywell

10 May: An Introduction and tour of Stratasys

Stratasys Corp.

14 June: Systems Engineering in Healthcare

University of Thomas, St. Paul Campus

29 July: Summer Social

In Planning

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2012 Calendar


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Event Calendar

Details online @http://www.incose.org

March 19-22, 2012: Conference On SE Research (CSER) (St. Louis Missouri)

Apr 30-May 2, 2012: Systems Engineering, Test and Evaluation Conference of The Systems Engineering Society of Australia (SESA) (Brisbane, Australia)

May 14-16, 2012: 1st Annual Systems Engineering in Washington DC

May19-23, 2012: 2012 Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference (Orlando, Florida)

June 18-20, 2012: Third International Symposium on Engineering Systems - CESUN 2012 (Delft, The Netherlands)

July 9-12, 2012: 22nd Annual International Symposium (IS2012) (Roma, Italy)

Aug17-18, 2012: Systems Engineering - Sharing Best Practices Conference(U of St Thomas, St. Paul, MN)

Sharing Best PracticesConnecting systems engineering professionals

Join us at THE system engineering event of the year! At this interactive event, attendees will: Learn best practices and see how colleagues are improving efficiency and reducing costs

applying system engineering approaches. Panel Discussions & Case studies will be presented in the medical, aerospace, manufacturing, and software-intensive industries.

Share information and network. Discuss topics within the systems engineering community to better your professional strategies for uncertain times.

Touch and experience the latest system engineering tools. Suppliers will be available in an exhibition area to show you the latest tools, discuss your needs and offer hands-on demonstrations.

INCOSE North Star Chapter, St. Thomas University School of Engineeringand the University of Minnesota School of Engineering present the first annual

Upper Midwest Systems Engineering Conference

UST St. Paul Campus, August 17th & 18th, 2012http://www.incose-northstar.com/TBD

North StarChapter

Connecting education and industry - a business and job growth partnership for the future.

http://www.incose-northstar.com/TBD


Communication

North Star Chapter Web Site:

www.incose.org/northstar

• North Star Newsletter – The Integrator– December 2011 and previous issues viewable/downloadable

• North Star Chapter Meeting Information– Charts from past meetings are viewable and

downloadable on the website• Update being Planned


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• INCOSE North Star is seeking assistance to help spread the word about chapter events

• Volunteers are being sought to aid communication of

meeting and seminar information as well as help with

other related activities

• The main objective of the team is to grow and retain

members

• Please sign up to get more information and assist

• Sign up at the meeting, see Ambassador Group sign up

sheet at the table

• For more information contact [email protected]

Ambassador Group


2012Chapter Organization

INCOSE Certification Advisory Group (CAG)Eileen Arnold – Chair

CAG Project ManagerDave Walden

Measurement Working GroupPaul Frenz – Chair

SE Competency Eileen Arnold - Chair

Co-PresidentsMike Keyes

Elliot Abrons

SecretaryAngela

Robinson

TreasurerJohn Palmer

Dir. IndustryMark Feitel

President ElectTBD

Past PresidentPaul Frenz

Dir. Acad/Govt Neill Radke

North Star Leadership

CommunicationEileen 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

Technical Operations


Eileen Arnold has been selected as a recipient of the MFESTS’ Charles W. Britzius Distinguished Engineer Award for 2012.

Neill Radke has been selected as a recipient of the MFESTS’ Richard S. Alberg Distinguished Science and Technology Professional Award for 2012.

Both will receive their awards at the 48th Annual Engineer’s Week Awards and Recognition Banquet to be held Friday, February 24th at The Nicollet Island Pavilion in Minneapolis.

MFESTS = Minnesota Federation of Engineering, Science, and Technology Societies

Recent Awards and Recognition

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For posting or seeking job opportunities:

• 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

Job Opportunities

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• Attendance at our meetings continues to grow…but so does the cost of Pizza

• We will continue to have networking time and serve appetizers and soft drinks

• We ask that you help us by making a voluntary donation

• You decide if and the amount and place it in the gold box (any amount helps)

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Many thanks, your response to date has been most helpful

Donations


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Why sign in?

• For the past several years we have had the chapter incentive program to encourage attendance at our meetings.

• For 2011, a $50 gift certificate for BP gasoline

will be awarded to every member attending six or

more regular meetings or who brings one new

member into the chapter. (Note – You must be a

member in good standing for the entire year to

qualify)

• For guests or members attending for the first time, this also insures your notification by email of all subsequent events.

Attendance

BE SURE AND SIGN THE ATTENDANCE LIST!

PLEASE WRITE SO WE CAN READ IT!!


Dr. Andrew Drenner, PHD, is Director of Engineering and Robotics Systems Architect at ReconRobotics. He received his BS degree in Computer Science from the U of Northern Iowa in 2001 and both his MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the U of Minnesota in 2009. His dissertation was titled: “A Framework for Distributed Mobile Robotics”. While pursuing his PhD, he was part of a team from the U of Minnesota’s Center for Distributed Robotics which worked on the DARPA “Software for Distributed Robotics” Program as well as several National Science Foundation funded research initiatives. Dr. Drenner is a founding member of ReconRobotics. He has spent the last 11 years working with robotic systems and has authored or co-authored over 20 articles published in internationally recognized journals, conferences, and books on the topics of miniature robotic systems, distributed robotic teams, sensor networks, and human activities monitoring He has extensive experience in embedded system design, product development, and designing robotic systems to operate in real-world situations. He is also an inventor on 2 issued patents as well as others which are pending.

Dr. Andrew Drenner

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Patrick J. McKinney has served as the Chief Operating Officer

at ReconRobotics since 2007. Prior to ReconRobotics, he was

the Vice President and General Manager of the Wafer Handling

Business Unit at Entegris, Inc, a leader in materials integrity

management products for the semiconductor and data storage

market. He has over 24 years of global leadership experience in

the high technology industry working for companies such as Intel,

Kyocera, Amkor Technology and Entegris.

Patrick J. McKinney

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Star Tribune Business Section Sunday, February 19, 2012

“Edina’s ReconRobotics secures a $13.9 million Army contract

…has increased employment by 20, to 48.

Next time we visit we expect to see the same headline, but with an extra zero in front of each decimal point

Congratulations

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Chapter Overview 23 February 2012 North Star Chapter 1 Tonights Schedule 6:15 PM – Networking and Socialize over Pizza and Soft Drinks 6:45 PM – Welcome