International Council on Systems Engineering

International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)
Founded 1990
Type Professional Organization
Focus Systems Engineering
Location
Origins National Council on Systems Engineering (NCOSE)
Area served
 Worldwide
Method Industry standards, Conferences, Publications
Members
 10,000+
Key people
 David Long (current president)
Website www.incose.org

The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE; pronounced in-co-see) is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to the advancement of systems engineering and to raise the professional stature of systems engineers. INCOSE is the world’s largest Professional Network of Systems Engineers.

Overview

Founded in 1990, INCOSE has over ten thousand members representing a broad spectrum – from student to senior practitioner, from technical engineer to program and corporate management, from science and engineering to business development. Members work together to advance their technical knowledge, exchange ideas with colleagues, and collaborate to advance systems engineering.

The organization's mission is to advance the state of the art and practice of systems engineering in industry, academia, and government by promoting interdisciplinary, scalable approaches to produce technologically appropriate solutions that meet societal needs.

INCOSE is governed by a Board of Directors. Its technical activities are led by a Technical Operations board with oversight over thirty-nine working groups operating under seven technical committees focused on Education & Research, Modeling & Tools, Process & Improvement, SE Management, SE Initiatives, Standards, and SE Applications. It publishes periodicals, manuals and instructional materials; sponsors conferences; develops standards; and works to promote education and registration of systems engineers.

INCOSE is a member organization of the Federation of Enterprise Architecture Professional Organizations (FEAPO), a worldwide association of professional organizations which have come together to provide a forum to standardize, professionalize, and otherwise advance the discipline of Enterprise Architecture.

History

The beginnings of INCOSE may be traced back to a meeting in 1989, hosted by General Dynamics at the University of California, San Diego, California.[1] The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the apparent shortage of qualified engineers who could think in terms of a total system, rather than just a specific discipline. In the summer of 1990, Boeing hosted a follow-up meeting at the Battelle Conference Center in Seattle, Washington. This meeting was attended by about 30 people, and shared similar concerns. The group adopted a charter, formed ad hoc committees to tackle the systems engineering issues, and formed the National Council on Systems Engineering (NCOSE). Harry Carlson from Lockheed, Jerry Lake from the Defense System Management College, and Brian Mar from the University of Washington were selected as the provisional co-chairpersons. More meetings and workshops were held in 1990 and 1991, sponsored by the Aerospace Corporation, IBM, and TRW.

The first NCOSE conference was held in cooperation with the American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM) in Chattanooga, Tennessee in October 1991. Other conferences were held annually, at various locations in the United States.

In the summer of 1995, the organization officially changed its name to the International Council on Systems Engineering or INCOSE, to reflect the growing participation of professionals from ten different countries around the world. Since the 1990s INCOSE has continued to grow and by the end of 2007 "there were over six thousand members representing a broad spectrum – from student to senior practitioner, from technical engineer to program and corporate management, from science and engineering to business development".[2]

INCOSE: Topics

Membership

INCOSE is open to individuals, corporations, and academic institutions. There are three types of individual memberships: Regular, Student, and Senior.

INCOSE is organized into three geographic sectors, with more than 60 local chapters:

Past presidents

  • 2012–2013 John Thomas
  • 2010–2011 Samantha Robitaille
  • 2008–2009 Patrick Hale
  • 2006–2007 Paul Robitaille
  • 2004–2005 Heinz Stoewer
  • 2002–2003 John Snoderly
  • 2001 John Clouet
  • 2000 Donna H. Rhodes
  • 1999 Kenneth Ptack
  • 1998 William Schoening
  • 1997 Eric Honour
  • 1996 Ginny Lentz
  • 1995 James Brill
  • 1994 George Friedman
  • 1993 Brian Mar
  • 1992 Jerome Lake

Publications and products

Standards

INCOSE's International Council on Systems Engineering Standards Technical Committee (STC) is working to advance and harmonize systems engineering standards used worldwide. Some of the notable standards the STC has been involved with are:

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Honour, E. C. (1998). "INCOSE: History of the International Council on Systems Engineering". Systems Engineering 1 (1): 4–13. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1520-6858(1998)1:1<4::AID-SYS2>3.0.CO;2-M.
  2. ↑ INCOSE overview, retrieved 7 May 2008.

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