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For October 12, 2017, afternoon session schedule click here.

Authors	John Fitch, Scott Turner
Title	Lean and Agile Systems Engineering of a Next Generation Energy Market System
Session	Type: Presentation Theme: Energy Systems Time: Thursday, 01:00-01:40 PM Room: Salon A/B/C
Abstract	MISO operates one of the world's largest energy markets that ensures reliable and least-cost delivery of electricity to over 40 million consumers in 15 U.S. states and one Canadian province. Our Market System manages $25 billion in energy transactions annually involving 400+ market participants in trading multiple Day-Ahead and Real-Time energy products. MISO is applying lean and agile Systems Engineering principles to guide the development of its next-generation Market System. This multi-year 9-figure program includes redesign of many core business processes, wholesale replacement of the existing market system software and upgrading our foundational IT infrastructure to enhance system performance, improve cyber-security and create the flexibility to innovate new energy market products and services. This presentation will highlight the challenges of standing up a Systems Engineering capability that is "right-sized", i.e. lean and agile while providing the discipline and rigor required to manage the complexity of concurrent redesign of a business, its mission-critical software systems and IT enablers. The presentation will provide the rationale for our Systems Engineering process design and summarize lessons learned from our "stress-test" roll-out of these methods, tools and organizational constructs into an enterprise-scale transformational program.

Authors	Casey Shull, C. Robert Kenley, J. Eric Dietz
Title	Common Recovery System for Electric Utilities to Decrease the Duration of Interruption to Critical Infrastructure using MBSE
Session	Type: Presentation Theme: Energy Systems Time: Thursday, 01:45-02:25 PM Room: Salon A/B/C
Abstract	Is North America vulnerable to wide spread electrical blackout from natural or man-made disasters? The short answer is yes. However, there are two distinct electrical systems operated by electric utilities. One, the bulk electric transmission system (BETS) transmitting high voltage electricity across North America and between states as a commodity between electric utility owners. Two, the electrical distribution system which delivers electricity at lower voltages to consumers is generally confined to electric utility territorial boundaries. The BETS has plans for electrical restoration which are continually refined and simulated to ensure restoration of electricity after electrical outage within the BETS. The problem is that electric utilities do not have electrical distribution restoration plans, methods or models to restore electrical distribution after an outage encompasses multiple territories and/or states for long durations. The potential result would be multiple days or weeks without electricity powering critical infrastructure, resulting in socioeconomic chaos in North America. A preliminary literature review identified that electrical distribution systems are vulnerable to wide spread long duration electrical outages from weather related or terrorist attacks. The study also revealed that electrical distribution system owners are not required to develop recovery plans for wide spread outage events, but do attempt to improve upon reliability indices by reducing the duration of outage to the largest group of customers. However, electric utilities do not focus on minimizing the duration of a critical infrastructure (CI) outage. Decreasing the duration of electrical outage to CI must be prioritized after wide spread disasters to provide social services to the public affected by the electrical outage. The purpose of this research is to develop a Common Recovery System that can create models, processes and plans applicable to electrical distribution systems to decrease the duration of electrical outage to CI.

Authors	Marc Horner
Title	A Multi-Domain, Patient-Specific Model of an Insulin Pump
Session	Type: Presentation Theme: Models in Healthcare Time: Thursday, 01:00-01:40 PM Room: Salon D
Abstract	Great products are composed of great individual components that are increasingly assessed from every possible physical perspective. But optimally designed components do not necessarily result in optimal systems. Eventually, the components are assembled, powered, sensed, and controlled as an integrated system, and must therefore be designed as a system to meet peak performance requirements and stringent safety standards. But building and testing integrated product systems and subsystems can be costly and may not identify optimal configurations and/or potential shortcomings. Computational modeling is recognized by both industry and regulatory agencies as an alternative to physical testing, but it has historically been used in silos with minimal collaboration between various design disciplines and engineering departments. The rise of multi-domain, system simulation and digital prototyping platforms are enabling multi-specialty teams with diverse engineering backgrounds to work in unison to achieve a deep understanding of integrated product behavior. A multi-domain model of the drug delivery sub-system of an insulin pump has been developed and will serve as an example. The model is composed of five domains: a display (HMI) domain, a controller domain, a power electronics domain, a hydraulics domain, and a patient pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic domain. The integrated multi-domain model not only enables smart component selection based system-level performance evaluations, but also illustrates the potential for systems models to include patient-specific responses as part of those evaluations.

Authors	Mohamed Elshal, Rapeepan Promyoo, Hazim El-Mounayri
Title	SE Driven Modeling and Simulation of a Mid-Sized Emergency Department Operation
Session	Type: Presentation Theme: Models in Healthcare Time: Thursday, 01:45-02:25 PM Room: Salon D
Abstract	The healthcare system in the United States faces multiple issues including quality, cost and outcome of the healthcare delivery process. Systems engineering methodologies and tools have been strongly proposed to address the complexity of the healthcare delivery processes as well as the challenges facing the industry, including emergency departments. However, very few initiatives have considered such promising methodology to address the current limitations and improve the quality of care. A systems engineering approach is proposed in this paper to drive the implementation of a discrete-event simulation (DES) model to accurately model the patient flow and predict resource utilization at a mid-size emergency department (ED). The proposed model captured multiple views of the ED system all the way from stakeholder needs to simulation of the ED process by modeling the four pillars of systems engineering: structure, behavior, parametric and requirements. Two discrete-event simulation models were implemented to evaluate the key performance measures of the ED system using Tecnomatix from Siemens™. The two models were verified using multiple methods, and validated by comparing their output behavior to the output behavior of the ED system using different data sources. The resulting simulation platform is able to support the clinical decision making process and optimize resource allocation by predicting human resource utilization, patient throughput and length of stay (LOS) under different scenarios.

Authors	Andrew Prierce, William Oakes
Title	Systems Engineering and Community Engagement: EPICS and INCOSE Opportunities
Session	Type: Presentation Theme: SE Education Time: Thursday, 01:00-01:40 PM Room: Salon E
Abstract	The EPICS program at Purdue University has developed a model for long-term partnerships for local and global engagement using a design-based set of courses that enroll students from first-year to seniors from majors across the university. EPICS undergraduates design, develop and deploy solutions to the needs of the community partners. All EPICS projects involve systems of people, communities, the environment and technology. Being successful in meetings needs requires systems thinking. The program recently celebrated its 20th anniversary and has seen significant success in student learning and engagement as well as community partnerships. In the last two years, the program has seen considerable expansion with the program growing 53% in just the last two years to over 600 students working on more than 140 community-based projects. EPICS leverages corporate mentors and partners and offers opportunities for INCOSE members to participate. An INCOSE and EPICS partnership would provide an outlet to increase systems thinking and systems engineering visibility at Purdue. It also provides a way for INCOSE members to help make a difference in the designs for local and global communities. This presentation will provide an overview of the EPICS Program at Purdue University and include discussions of opportunities for INCOSE members to engage with the Purdue EPICS Program.

Authors	David Flanigan
Title	Systems Engineering in Healthcare Course Development
Session	Type: Presentation Theme: SE Education Time: Thursday, 01:45-02:25 PM Room: Salon E
Abstract	The Johns Hopkins University Engineering for Professionals (JHU EP) program provides a masters level degree in numerous majors, to include Systems Engineering. Students are professionals in the work place that will earn a part-time degree while working full time. Recently, a new program to tailor systems engineering to the health care industry is under development. This program is aimed at physicians, nurses, and engineers that work in the health care industry as potential students. A description of the program is provided, discussing the similarities and differences between the Systems Engineering and Healthcare Systems Engineering programs. We will also describe the challenges of converting a program that primarily focused on the aerospace and defense industry, while still retaining the core systems engineering fundamentals, into a program to serve the health care industry. This presentation will explore in depth one of the core classes, Systems Conceptual Design, which starts at the beginning of the systems lifecycle to include requirements, use cases, architecture, and initial trade studies. It will go into detail regarding the course materials, techniques, and examples that were used during development, and make some observations on transitioning these materials, as well as some suggested next steps for INCOSE involvement.

Authors	Apoorv Maheshwari, Navindran Davendralingam, Ali Raz, Daniel Delaurentis
Title	Towards Transforming Legacy Products to their Model-Based Representations
Session	Type: Presentation Theme: Applying Models Time: Thursday, 03:00-03:40 PM Room: Salon A/B/C
Abstract	Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is increasingly being adopted as a means of transforming systems engineering practices from a document-centric to a model-centric discipline. However, the lack of efficient means to transform legacy information to model-based representations remains a significant hurdle for the industrial adoption of MBSE. Additionally, critical legacy information is at times inaccessible due to changes in personnel, intellectual protection rights, unsuitable archiving practices, and other causes. Since new products are usually developed as an upgraded version of legacy products, it becomes difficult for companies to adopt the model-based practices for the design process. Development of a methodology is in process that seeks to establish model-based representation of legacy products. This is accomplished with a novel data-driven reverse engineering approach to identify the critical requirements that led to the legacy product by determining the unknown inherent design team structure. These critical requirements are then used to generate the model-based representations of the legacy product. The presentation will demonstrate the reverse engineering approach for a hypothetical structural beam supplying company to identify the unknown team structure and infer critical requirements for the legacy product.

Authors	James Hummell
Title	SysML and tieing to FMEA (Failure Modes and Effects Analysis)
Session	Type: Presentation Theme: Applying Models Time: Thursday, 03:45-04:25 PM Room: Salon A/B/C
Abstract	This presentation will show how to use a SysML systems model and Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) techniques with requirements tools (e.g. DOORS, PTC Lifecycle Manager) for capturing Failure Modes, and subsequently synchronizing this information into tools that can perform analysis against those Failures like PTC's Windchill Quality Solutions, or Reliasoft’s FMEA tool suites. This simple technique will show how it’s possible in any SysML platform to inherit stereotype behavior, using that to show and visualize linkage to a failure mode in order to aid in mitigating that failure in the system.

Authors	Ajay Thukral
Title	Healthcare at Crossroads
Session	Type: Panel Theme: Healthcare Time: Thursday, 03:00-04:25 PM Room: Salon D
Abstract	Is Healthcare at the crossroads of reengineering itself? Health care organizations have consolidated into an ecosystem of organized care structured around information and alerts, with smart and connected diagnostics and treatment technologies, life-saving drugs, personalized treatment plans supported by strong evidence-based care and much more. However, the care system is still at the fringes struggling to deliver the fundamental objectives of quality care: safe, effective, patient-centered, efficient, equitable, and timely. Over the past decade, some healthcare themes have emerged: reengineering care, transparency in care, patient-tailored-care, outcome-based care, and evidence-based care. The payors, administrators, and clinical engineers are actively researching and implementing best practices, augmenting processes with technology in delivering care, coordinating and monitoring care while addressing the allocation of finite resources in order to improve the quality of care. We invite panelists to share their views and visions on improving integrative healthcare delivery by addressing these questions: What are the foundational elements of tomorrow's integrative healthcare system? How do provider organizations keep a pulse on the system operations and quality of care? Medicine, medical devices, and decision support systems are continuously refined and incorporated – how do healthcare planners and administrators accommodate and integrate such changes from concept to operations? Has the integrative care quality plateaued? What are the next steps to take care operations to the next level of quality of care delivery? The panel will involve representatives from several key domains – providers, pharma, medical devices, payors discussion, and data analytics to reflect upon current and future efforts on the overall integrative healthcare and quality of care. Following their initial views and statements, the panel will be opened for Q&A.

Authors	Jason Sherey, Chris Osborne
Title	Performing Requirements Analysis in a Limited and Constrained Environment, an Interactive Event Between INCOSE and Indiana FIRST
Session	Type: Panel Theme: Education Time: Thursday, 03:00-04:25 PM Room: Salon E
Abstract	There are many standards and books that describe the perfect requirements analysis process and what pristine requirements should look like. Of course, we have all faced uncompromising schedule and cost pressures that make it seem impossible to even dare to meet those expectations. Only the most experienced, often learned through trial-and-error, can offer sage advice on which parts of requirements analysis are best left in and which can be skipped to minimize risks to the project. For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) is an organization that “inspires young people to be science and technology leaders and innovators, by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs that build science, engineering, and technology skills, that inspire innovation, and that foster well-rounded life capabilities including self-confidence, communication, and leadership.” These programs involve developing robots that perform complicated missions or games. Being teams of high school students, they are under severe time, performance, cost, and human resource constraints. This panel will meld the two domains of INCOSE and FIRST to help a FIRST team configure its requirements analysis process so that its unique set of constraints are met.

Authors	David Waldon
Title	Jack & Diane (INCOSE Mix)
Session	Type: Song Theme: INCOSE Update Time: Thursday, 07:15-07:25 PM Room:
Abstract	Jack and Diane is a classic American rock & roll song by Indiana native John Cougar Mellencamp. In parody, the lyrics have been modified for an INCOSE/SE theme.

Authors	Andrew Pickard, Mike Celentano
Title	The future of INCOSE
Session	Type: Featured Speaker Theme: INCOSE Update Time: Thursday, 08:00-08:50 PM Room:
Abstract	Is the past a predictor for the future? If so, how would the past history of INCOSE help us in predicting the organization’s future? What unexpected, emergent behaviours appeared as a result of decisions made? Can we apply Systems Engineering principles in the development of the organization to exploit positive emergent behaviours and mitigate the risks of negative ones? Are there parallels with other, similar organizations?

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