What is the Academic Council (AC)? 

The AC is the “Voice of the Academic Community” for INCOSE.  

The AC: 

• Evaluates and makes recommendations regarding policy issues relevant to the academic community to the Board of Directors via the Director for Academic Matters. 

• Initiates and facilitates discussion and exploration of issues the AC members deem important to the systems engineering academic community. 

• Evaluates and makes recommendations on INCOSE products and services. 

• Assesses the state and health of the systems engineering academic community every 3 years. 

• Nurtures a healthy, internationally recognized systems engineering academic community. 

Involvement in the AC is expected to be altruistic and not transactional. Academic Council member organizations do not receive specific benefits for their service.  

Can I become a member of the Academic Council? 

The following individuals may apply for membership to the AC: 

• Any representative of an organization that offers systems engineering or systems-related education in an institute of higher education. 

• Any representative of K12 education in charge of curriculum design, ideally at least at the county level. 

• Any tenured/tenure-track faculty that conducts research in systems engineering or a systems-related field if representation for their unit is not already present in the AC. 

• Any faculty member pursuing the establishment of a systems engineering or systems engineering-related educational program at their institution. 

Membership to INCOSE is not a requirement to be a member of the AC for the first 3 years of service in the AC. 

(Note that membership of the AC must comply with the requirements of the INCOSE Countries of Concern chart.) 

What are the expectations for members of the Academic Council? 

The AC meets physically or virtually at least twice annually in conjunction with INCOSE’s International Symposium and International Workshop. The AC may hold additional virtual meetings at the request of the AC Chair. Physical and virtual meetings of the AC will generally be open to all interested parties attending the International Workshop and International Symposium. However, at their discretion, the AC Chair may establish an AC executive session restricted to members only.