Introduction Recently I had the opportunity to visit South Africa. I attended the INCOSE South Africa Chapter’s Systems Engineering conference and also supported their Greatest Young Systems Engineers of the Year Challenge.   INCOSE South Africa Systems Engineering Conference The INCOSE South Africa Systems Engineering Conference was held at the …

Honeybees are a critical part of our food production chain. They pollinate essential food crops around the world. In the United States alone they account for the annual pollination of crops valued at $15B, or 25% of the U.S. food harvest. Without their services our national food security would be …

For any issue of meaningful complexity where multiple specialists must come together to develop a solution, systems engineers sit at the technical heart of the solution. We strive to fully understand the problem space, fully understand the bounds associated with the possible implementation technologies, and ultimately expand the trade space …

Occasionally, I get a “classic” support case and last week just that happened. A CORE™ user told me that he imported a data file and it appeared to work, but produced a conflict file. Then he couldn’t see the project. He imported again and again with the same result. Not …