Date: May 18, 2011 – 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Dr. Harold Sorenson (UCSD)  on Engineering Complex Systems for the Enterprise Abstract: This presentation is intended to discuss and inform senior engineering and management leaders to the problems and emerging solution approaches that can enable their complex enterprises to better respond to the challenges of globally distributed operations in a highly[…]

Date: April 21, 2011 – 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Martin Bakal on Six Ways to Accelerate Android Mobile Application Development Abstract: More software is embedded into both consumer and industrial electronics, the electronics industry as a whole is being challenged with complexity and enhancing its software development process. Software has become the “Invisible Thread” of today’s innovation. This talk will[…]

Date: March 16, 2011 – 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Danial Ashmun, P.E. on System Architecture Abstract: Increasing complexity is at the heart of the most difficult problems facing today’s systems engineering and architecting. Architecture methods and frameworks are a means to show the system components, the externally visible properties of those components, and the relationships (e.g. the behavior) between them. Architects[…]

Date: February 23, 2011 – 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Dr. Ray Madachy on Quick Engineering Cost Estimates and Trades using Coconomography Abstract: Coconomography is the graphical computation of constructive cost models for systems and software engineering using nomographs. They are the most rapid and simple method of calculating the models by drawing lines. No computers, calculators or manual calculations are needed.[…]