About

Hello, I am Abbas Rostami and am pleased to serve as the 2019 president of the San Diego Chapter of INCOSE.

In my 44-year career span I have designed, developed and maintained various software intensive systems (mostly for Defense industries) and also taught software engineering courses at the San Diego colleges and universities. I have been member of INCOSE since 1997 and have Systems Engineering certification from USCD and INCOSE (CSEP). I volunteered and served on the board of San Diego and Texas chapters for the past fifteen years.

I like to extend my warm welcome to all board members and hope that we can meet/exceed all chapter requirements by working together and have another successful year.

I would also like to congratulate the 2018 board members especially Mr. Ted Mulder (2018 President) for achieving the highest award points in the history of the chapter. We are confirmed to receive our first Platinum award this year and hope to be able to continue improving the chapter performance throughout this year as well.

On January 23^rd 2019 we had our first Social and Membership Drive at the Primos Mexican Restaurant that was well attended. This event was also sponsored by the National University (NU) School of Engineering. The NU offers an advanced degree in Engineering Management with a specialization in Systems Engineering.

During this year we plan to have two tutorials (May and November), a STEM event for the high school students fundraising (September), and our mini-conference (December) Plus our regular monthly meetings (4^th Wed. of each month). Please check our website www.sdincose.org for schedule of events and plan to attend or participate in presenting at any of these events.

I had the opportunity to attend the IW-2019 in Torrance That was a great experience and education. Among many interesting initiatives and working groups I would like to mention the new FUSE (FUture of Systems Engineering) initiative in and will provide detailed information in the future News Letters for this year.