WSRC 2025 Experience & Key Takeaways - September 25th, 2025

Please join the INCOSE Colorado Front Range Chapter for a virtual presentation by Dr. Tami Katz on The Art of Systems Thinking.

Date: Thursday, October 23, 2025

Time: 6:30 PM MT

Topic: The Art of Systems Thinking

Speaker: 

Dr. Tami Katz is a Senior Principal Systems Engineer at BAE Systems, Inc., located in Colorado, USA. Dr. Katz is certified as an International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) Expert Systems Engineering Professional (ESEP) and has a Doctor of Philosophy in Systems Engineering from Colorado State University.

Dr. Katz is active in the INCOSE community, serving as Director of Technical Operations, and previously as co-chair of the INCOSE Requirements Working Group.

During her career, Dr. Katz has worked in systems and test engineering of space vehicles, performing a range of activities from design, requirements development, verification, validation, test, functional management as well as technical leadership. Dr. Katz is also an adjunct professor with the CU Boulder Engineering Management Program, providing course instruction on Digital Engineering & Model-Based Systems Engineering, and Requirements, Verification & Validation.

WSRC 2025 Experience & Key Takeaways - September 25th, 2025

Please join the INCOSE Colorado Front Range Chapter to hear about what our Chapter-sponsored members learned and experienced at INCOSE WSRC 2025.

Date: Thursday, September 25th, 2025

Time: 6:30 PM MT

IS 2025 Experience and Key Takeaways - August 21st, 2025

Please join the INCOSE Colorado Front Range Chapter to hear about what our Chapter-sponsored members learned and experienced at INCOSE IS 2025.

Date: Thursday, August 21, 2025

Time: 6:30 PM MT

INCOSE Colorado Front Range Chapter Picnic - July 19th, 2025

Student Showcase - May 22nd, 2025

The INCOSE Colorado Front Range (CFR) Chapter is hosting an opportunity for systems students to expand your network, provides fresh questions and feedback to consider, and strengthen presentation skills.

Students are invited to share a short presentation (~5 mins) followed by brief questions and discussions. Successful past topics have come from student’s research or about a topic from a class project.

 A Showcase should target 1-3 slides highlighting the topic and often include items such as:

1. the Significance of the problem or solution
2. Key Context surrounding the area of study
3. Innovations or Contributions of the area of study
4. A Current Challenge or Potential Solution in the area of the problem
5. Lessons Learned such as a Research Step, Tool or Technique that has significantly helped.

The next CFR Student Showcase is planned for Thursday, May 22, 2025, 6-7:30pm as a Hybrid Event.  The CFR Colorado Springs folks are gathering at ....  The CFR Denver folks are gathering at ...  Or, students and chapter members may participate virtually from ANYWHERE! 

• Lone Tree Library, 10055 Library Way, Lone Tree CO 80124 (2nd floor event hall)
• Colorado Springs Library 21C, 1175 Chapel Hills Dr, Colorado Springs CO 80919

INCOSE Colorado Front Range COS Area Outreach Event March 20th 2025

INCOSE Colorado Front Range Chapter February 27th Virtual Meeting

Hello INCOSE Colorado Front Range!  Please join us at 1730 MST on 27 Feb for a chapter meeting. 

We will kick off a series of discussions along the theme of Better Decisions, Better Systems.

Come ready for fruitful conversation!

Wednesday, January 22, 2025 Virtual Event

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Time: 6:30 PM MT

Topic: Using MBSE to Perform Functional Analysis to Analyze Customer Requirements

The theory of Systems Engineering says we start at the top with customer needs, define requirements for the top level system in our product hierarchy, then decompose those requirements into the subsystem requirements at the next level down in the hierarchy- or does it? Some believe architecture work can begin once the requirements work is completed at any given level, but is that the only time that the tools and methods for architecture are useful? Have you ever been on a program where the practice of Systems Engineering aligns with the theory of Systems Engineering 100 percent? How do you cope with the deviations from the theory? What happens when the original requirement at the top is not an appropriate one that people should start with? This presentation will have a brief overview of systems engineering and then walk through an example of a top level requirement handed down from a customer to a program. We will use functional analysis to improve the requirement and answer the preceding questions.