SYSTEMS ENGINEERING NEWS

In 2023 the FuSE initiative hopes to develop organizational relationships, workflows and value models that contribute proactively and practically to the realization of the SE Vision 2035.

Technical Leadership Institute

INCOSE’s Technical Leadership Institute (TLI) continues its mission to provide opportunities for personal and professional growth and networking with peers and coaches. Started in 2015, TLI cohort #8 has 23 participants. A call for nominations for the next TLI cohort will be issued at IW2023. Learn more about TLI here.

Empowering Women Leaders in Systems Engineering (EWLSE)

In late 2022, the INCOSE EWLSE initiative published an impressive work product, “Letters to My Younger Self: How Systems Engineering Changed My Life (LTMYS)”. This brainchild of Alice Squires, ELWSE founder/leader and Lisa Hoverman, former INCOSE Marketing and Communications Director, is a means to reach out to a younger generation of engineers with both the passion of their forebears and lessons learned across numerous diverse systems engineering careers. Future iterations of this e-book are planned to follow and trace the evolution of systems engineering practice. Download LTMYS

Erika Palmer, ELWSE Americas Sector lead and LTMYS co-author) recently interviewed Cindy MahughDam, CEO of SPEC Innovations (LTYMS sponsor), to gain her insights into inspiring women in the engineering workforce and the benefits of workplace diversity. Watch this interview.

SySTEAM Initiative

2022 saw the expansion of the INCOSE Systems, Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (SySTEAM) initiative to explicitly include the arts and humanities alongside STEM and to address the significance of interdisciplinary education. Since its inception at IW2022, SySTEAM has grown into an online global community comprised of hundreds of educators, industry professionals, advocates, and students, all linked via SySTEAM’s email, listserv and Discord community hub. SySTEAM’s expanded vision was highlighted in SyEN Edition #113 (June 2022).

A November “end-of-year” workshop produced a preliminary report that highlights SySTEAM’s findings concerning the current state of systems thinking and systems engineering education, recommendations for long-term solutions to relevant issues and short-term actions that might create value in 2023. A potential SySTEAM mini-conference in mid- or late-2023 is under consideration. There is opportunity to shape the planning for this conference by completing an interest form and joining the SySTEAM Discord server.

Learn more about SySTEAM

INCOSE Outreach Champion Proposals

INCOSE Outreach is soliciting “Champion Proposals” from members who would like to suggest a potential collaboration that they would like to create between INCOSE and another organization or professional society. The one-page proposal should include:

• GOALS (identify)

• Describe your project in one or two paragraphs.

• Motivation

• Proposed actions you will take.

• How will you evaluate whether your action contributed to your goal or not?

• Identify milestones (with timeframes).

• Ultimate results you want to achieve.