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