INCOSE Michigan Chapter Highlights

Congratulations to our INCOSE Michigan Chapter ESD Award Winners

Please join us in celebrating our INCOSE Chapter ESD Award winners Robert F. Bordley, Ph.D. and. Jack A. Stein.

Robert has been a long-time member and supporter of INCOSE and our Michigan Chapter. His list of accomplishments is impressive and his selection for this top award was very much deserved.

Jack Stein has also been a long-time supporter of INCOSE, the Chapter, and the region. This award is evidence of his dedication not only to INCOSE but in the collaboration with other societies and organizations.

The INCOSE Michigan Chapter would also like to extend a special thank you to our MC for the evening, Michael Vinarcik.

Thank you for all you do to support us!

Congratulations to the Winners:

2023 Gold Award Honoree: Robert F. Bordley, Ph.D. (nominated by INCOSE)

At a special banquet each February, the ESD Affiliate Council (made up of 92 societies) presents its most prestigious tribute, The Gold Award, to honor an outstanding engineer or scientist. Each society may nominate one individual; all nominations received are then judged by a group comprised of past Affiliate Council presidents.

2023 Ann O. Fletcher Award for Distinguished Service: Jack A. Stein

The ESD Affiliate Council awards the Ann O. Fletcher Distinguished Service Award to honor individuals for their dedicated service. The award was created in Ann O. Fletcher’s name to honor her lifetime contribution to The Engineering Society of Detroit.

A Systems Engineering Approach to Regolith Mitigation at the Artemis Base Camp

A New Capstone Project

The INCOSE Michigan Chapter and the MTU Systems Engineering Association will be presenting the results of an exciting new cross-disciplinary and systems-thinking approach to solving real-world problems.

Founded in 2019 as an official INCOSE Student Division, the MTU Systems Engineering Association is a student-led organization with a mission to provide students with exposure to the study and application of systems engineering.

INCOSE Michigan Past President Robin Mikola collaborated with NASA and the MTU Systems Engineering Association to create a new capstone concept. The idea was to solve a current problem with a cross-disciplinary systems approach. For this project, the team selected the problem of regolith mitigation and stabilization at the future Artemis Base Camp, During the semester the team designed solution pathways using a systems engineering framework, analysis techniques, and verification methods derived from mission requirements. The team will present the method designed to evaluate existing and new solutions pathways while providing the results of which solution pathways won in their brackets.

Come join us on the evening of May 4th at 6 PM EDT for this virtual event to see the creative solutions presented by the students and supporting experts.

Rewind of Our Events

Rewind to Our Last Event

A tutorial on using Gaphor for modeling a system.

This was a collaborative hands-on experience for understanding the functionality of Gaphor for modeling systems (MBSE).

Open source can help democratize systems engineering and make Model-Based Systems Engineering accessible to a much larger set of engineers.

In this beginner friendly talk, we'll walk through how to use SysML to model a simple system with an open source tool called Gaphor, using a modeling framework of abstraction levels and pillars.

About the Presenter

Dan Yeaw (@danyeaw) is a Senior Manager who leads Functional Safety and Systems Engineering at Ford and is passionate about applying Model-Based Systems Engineering. He has been an INCOSE member since 2013, and is a Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP). He also is the current organizer of Michigan Python and is one of the maintainers of the open source Gaphor modeling tool.

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Winter Social

Year End Review and Vision for 2023

The Michigan Chapter hosted a dinner and social for the membership to network. The presentation at the event went over the accomplishments in 2022 and the vision for 2023.

We wanted to say thank you to all who came out to socialize and welcome the new board members.

Congratulations to the 2023 Elected Board Members!!!

Garima Bhatia – President
Stephen Cash – Vice President | President-Elect
Dean Norfleet – Treasurer
Robin Mikola – Secretary

Call for Volunteers

The INCOSE Michigan Chapter is always looking for volunteers to help us accomplish more for our membership. Become a committee member, lead a committee, or run for a future board position. As volunteers, we all understand the value of additional skills and time. Please consider participating.

INCOSE Michigan Chapter News

Welcome to the New Members

The INCOSE Michigan chapter would like to welcome the new members. We appreciate your support for our chapter and would love to hear your feedback on how we can improve.

Please join us in welcoming the following individuals to the Michigan Chapter this year.

Chih Hsuan Tsai
Ozzy Weli
Kevin Westover
Jiajin Wu
Talos Zambrano

Letter from the Board

Hello INCOSE Michigan Chapter,

This is the first newsletter of what we hope to become a regular method to communicate, support, and appreciate our membership.

To meet this goal, we need your help. We would like content to include in our newsletters to highlight our membership and our regions. If you have ideas, please pass them along. Contact us on Social Media, Comment in the Survey, Find us in Yammer, or email us directly.

Thank you for your continued support!

Membership Survey

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