Events for the Month of November 2009
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REGISTER NOW! SDOE650 Module Course Offered on Campus December 7-11, 2009: System Architecture and Design
Author : Ellen.Hogarty@stevens.edu (Ellen Hogarty)
Date : Tue, Nov 10, 2009
Description :

Register now for a module course SDOE 650 System Architecture and Design: offered 12/7-11/09 in Hoboken, NJ. This course discusses the fundamentals of system architecting and the architecting process, along with practical heuristics. Furthermore, the course has a strong "how-to" orientation, and numerous case studies are used to convey and discuss good architectural concepts as well as lessons learned. Adaptation of the architectural process to ensure effective application of COTS will also be discussed. In this regard, the course participants will be introduced to an architectural assessment and evaluation model. Linkages between early architectural decisions, driven by customer requirements and concept of operations, and the system operational and support costs are highlighted. Taught by Dr. Anthony Barrese.
 
NEW CFP DEADLINE 12/1: Conference on Systems Engineering Research (CSER 2010), Hoboken, NJ, March 17-20, 2010
Author : Brian.Sauser@stevens.edu (Brian Sauser)
Date : Wed, Nov 11, 2009
Description :

Conference Announcement and Call For Papers: 8th Annual Conference on Systems Engineering Research

March 17-19, 2010

Hoboken, New Jersey

www.stevens.edu/CSER2010

 

Conference Objective: The objective of this conference is to provide practitioners and researchers in academia, industry, and government with a common platform to present, discuss and influence Systems Engineering research, and to enhance the practice of Systems Engineering and Systems Engineering education.

 

Call for Papers: We invite original research papers addressing any aspect of the Systems Engineering lifecycle. This includes conception, design and architecting, development, modeling and simulation, production, integration, validation, operation and support of these systems. Additional topics include definition of metrics, performance, and improvement methods, assessment and mitigation of risks, definition of critical success factors, and definition of best practices. All papers will be peer reviewed, and if accepted, presented at the conference.

 

Click here: sse.stevens.edu/research/sponsored-conferences/cser/2010/home/

 

Important Deadlines:

December 1, 2009:

Submission of Full Papers for Peer Review

January 2, 2010:

Acceptance/Rejection Notification & Author Instructions

February 15, 2010:

Submission of Camera-Ready Full Paper

 

To learn more, please visit the CSER 2010 website at www.stevens.edu/CSER2010

 

Conference Organizers: CSER 2010 is organized by Stevens Institute of Technology and Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), in collaboration with the University of Southern California (USC).
 
GLOGIFT 09: 9th Global Conf on Flexible Systems Mgmt Nov 12-14, 2009
Author : Beth.DeFares@stevens.edu (Beth Austin DeFares)
Date : Thu, Nov 12, 2009
Description :

This year's GLOGIFT 09 Conference is happening on Nov 12-14, 2009 at the National Institute of Industrial Engineering in Vihar Lake, Mumbai, cohosted by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven of Belgium, the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, India, UT Dallas School of Management, and the National Insurance Academy of Pune, India. This is the annual conference of the Global Institute of Flexible Systems Management. For more information, go to giftsociety.org. SSE Doctoral Students Devanandhan Henry and Alex Gorod are on the International Planning Committee of this conference.
 
Workshop on Cognition-Centric Systems at Stevens
Author : Ali.Mostashari@stevens.edu (Ali Mostashari)
Date : Tue, Nov 17, 2009 Time: 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Description :

The Internal Workshop on Cognition-Centric Systems at Stevens, Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11am-6pm, Babbio Center, 5th Fl, is aimed at mapping the terrain for Cognition Centric Systems Engineering through a multi-disciplinary perspective. The workshop will be limited to Stevens faculty and interested Lockheed Martin representatives. Perspectives represented will include systems and enterprise engineering aspects, architecture perspectives, systems thinking perspectives, artificial intelligence and machine learning, cyber-security of cognition-centric systems, cognition-centric software, multi-agent systems, knowledge management in complex adaptive systems, cognitive radio and software defined radio, sensor technologies as well as data and physical network perspectives. Details to follow. For more info, contact Dr. Ali Mostashari at ali.mostashari@stevens.edu.
 
SSE WEBINAR/ Modeling Methods for System-of-Systems: Research and Education Experiences with Dr. Daniel Delaurentis, Asst. Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering, Purdue University
Author : Beth.DeFares@stevens.edu (Beth DeFares)
Date : Wed, Nov 18, 2009 Time: Noon - 1:00 PM
Description :

The SSE will host an Invited Talk by Dr. Daniel Delaurentis, Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering, Purdue University, on Wednesday, November 18, 2009, from 12pm - 1pm, EST: Modeling Methods for System-of-Systems: Research

and Education Experiences.

 

This event will be held as a Webinar ONLY. To sign up to participate, please contact SSE@stevens.edu by Tuesday, November 17, 2009.

 

A system-of-systems (SoS) consist of multiple, heterogeneous, distributed, independently operating systems that occasionally work together to achieve a unique capability. When collaborating, these systems are embedded in networks at multiple levels that evolve over time. Some important SoSs are inflexible in response to disruption (artificial or natural) and/or are unable to scale effectively with increases in service demand. A common thread in all these challenges is the complexity that arises from their nature as an SoS. Thus, the notion of System-of-Systems Engineering (SoSE) has arisen and researchers are seeking to understand how design decision-making is different in this new context. Our objective is to understand complexity in seeking robust system interoperability (both among human and engineered systems in operation AND in their design, development, and test). One particular goal of this and related research, still far from achieved, is a very practical one: to learn how to engineer “influence” into the systems we design in a manner that increases performance in the various systems-of-systems in which the systems may participate.

 

The situation is worthy of pause, to ask: Do we have the foundation that enables us to understand, properly pose, and then analyze this new type of problem? If not, what are the essential elements needed to establish this foundation? In this seminar, several system-of-systems challenges will be briefly described along with a reporting on experiences in education and research in this area over the past 5 years at Purdue. The air transportation application exemplifies the system-of-systems character and has recently been investigated using the new methodology under sponsorship from NASA and the FAA. The application provides a glimpse of new modeling & simulation techniques in use and highlights the importance of networks, both physical and economic, along with other operational and policy considerations. These latter issues represent more than interdisciplinary problems; they are trans-domain problems, and thus aerospace engineers alone cannot solve them.

 

Bio:

Dan DeLaurentis is Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Aerospace Systems area, at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN. He leads the System-of-Systems research laboratory and is an active participant in the College of Engineering's System-of-Systems Signature Area. He is presently Chair of the AIAA Air Transportation Systems Technical Committee and Co-Chair of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on Systems of Systems. He is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA. He earned his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA.
 
IEEE Gold/INCOSE Student Chapter Panel and Networking: Engineering Careers for the Next Generation
Author : Ellen.Hogarty@stevens.edu (Ellen Hogarty)
Date : Wed, Nov 18, 2009 Time: 3:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Description :

The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) Liberty Chapter and the IEEE, North Jersey Chapter and GOLD jointly invite you to attend the following event: Engineering Careers for the Next Generation. Wednesday, November 18, 2009 (3:30PM - 7:00 PM). Food and refreshments shall be served.

 

3.00pm - 3.30pm: "Meet and Greet"

3.30pm - 5.30pm: Keynote speaker followed by an open Q&A forum.

 

Keynote speaker - Chris Ferreri, Managing Director at ICAP

Q&A forum will be moderated by Prof. Rashmi Jain, SIT and will comprise of industry experts representing graduates from different years. Some panelists for Q&A include: Kate Duncan, SIT BE ’98, NJIT PhD ’08; Priyanka Shitole – SIT ’09; Peter Pupalaikis - SIT Graduate; William Andrews, Former COO UBS, and Partner, Accenture; Others TBD

 

5.30pm – 6.00pm: Graduating IEEE student members to be recognized for their accomplishments

6.00pm – 6.30pm: IEEE GOLD/INCOSE brief overview of their activities

6.30pm - 7.00pm: Networking

In a fast changing world of globalization and fast evolving technologies the nature and responsibilities of an engineer’s role are changing tremendously. More and more of US based businesses do not manufacture products but often integrate parts from all over the world. Moreover, the experience of the recent global economic trends and developments have also changed the potential career outlook for the graduating engineers. This event will focus on networking and discussions on these and similar issues. The speakers and panelists will emphasize the role of networking in our careers especially so for new hires.

 

Keynote speaker: Chris Ferreri

 

Chris is a Managing Director at ICAP, currently managing the product design, development and deployment for ICAP’s hybrid electronic and voice trading systems for the securities and derivatives markets in the US. He has been in the Inter Dealer Broker space for more than 25 years. ICAP is the world’s largest interdealer broker with an average daily transaction volume in excess of $2.3 trillion, more than 50% of which is electronic. After receiving his B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1977, he began his career as a Project Engineer for E. I. DuPont de Nemours. In 1984, Chris joined Garban’s U.S. Treasury division, and is currently registered with FINRA. It was during his last assignment as manager of the proprietary US Treasury desk that Garban began the move toward interactive electronic trading. In 1999, Chris was charged with organizing a business line for hybrid electronic and voice trading and began the design, development and ultimate roll out of Garban’s e-commerce solution, ETC. Chris is responsible for trading systems strategy, design and planning for the blending of ICAP’s voice brokered Over-the-Counter markets and implementation of electronic trading. Chris is the Chair of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association Interdealer Broker Advisory Committee, Chairman of The Wholesale Markets Brokers’ Association, Americas, and has represented the industry at conferences ranging in topics from business strategies, technology and regulatory concerns. He has also testified before the US House of Representatives Financial Services Committee as well as the House Subcommittee on Capital Markets. He is also a lecturer and mentor with Columbia University’s EMITM program and a member of the Advisory Board for Stevens Institute of Technology’s School of Systems and Enterprises.

 

Place: Stevens Institute of Technology, Bissinger Room, Howe Center, Castle Point on Hudson, Hoboken, NJ 07030

For Information and Registration: meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/1179
 
INCOSE Liberty Chapter Tutorials for SysML & OOSEM ON CAMPUS, Nov 21-22
Author : INCOSE.STEVENS@GMAIL.COM (Leone Young)
Date : Sat, Nov 21, 2009
Description :

On behalf of Frank Salvatore, President of the INCOSE Liberty Chapter (fsalvatore@hpti.com):

 

The INCOSE Liberty Chapter will be having a tutorial event on November 21st and 22nd. These events will be a tutorial introduction to SysML on the 21st and a tutorial on Object Oriented System Engineering Method (OOSEM) on the 22nd.

Please view the following links for more information regarding these upcoming INCOSE, Liberty Chapter events:

 

www.incose.org/liberty/

www.incose.org/liberty/2009Meetings.asp

 

Reservations: Reservations will be taken on a first come first serve basis. To register for the meeting, contact Frank Salvatore fsalvatore@hpti.com

 

Location: Babbio 541B

 

Register for exact times.