IW 2014

The INCOSE International Workshop was held on January 25th and 26th in Los Angeles, CA.

Our schedule was:

Saturday 1/25 AM

• NSWG-1 10:30 AM - Noon (T)

  • Motivation, Charter, Accomplishments, Plans, NSWG Workshop Goals and Agenda, Goals for 2014, Roles for New Participants - George Studor https://sites.google.com/site/incosenswg/home/iw-2014/nswg_overview

  • Intersections of System Engineering with Natural Systems -- Insights from 2013 NSWG Activities - Larry Pohlmann https://sites.google.com/site/incosenswg/home/iw-2014/insights_2013

Saturday 1/25 PM

• NSWG-2 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM (W)

  • “Design Heuristics across Domains” - Randy Anway/Norbert Hoeller https://sites.google.com/site/incosenswg/home/iw-2014/designdomains

  • “Agricultural and Architectural Applications” - John Ackley https://sites.google.com/site/incosenswg/home/iw-2014/agarch_insights

• NSWG-3 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM (W)

  • “Complex Aerospace Systems Applications” - Kenny Jones https://sites.google.com/site/incosenswg/home/iw-2014/complex

  • Group Exercise: Applying Biomimicry to Asteroid Capture Mission - George Studor/Curt McNamara https://sites.google.com/site/incosenswg/home/iw-2014/nswg_exercises

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Sunday 1/26 AM

• NSWG-4 9:15 AM – 10:00 AM (T)

  • How can Natural Systems Help Me: A Discussion

  • NSWG-5 10:30 AM – Noon (T)

  • Intersections of Natural Systems & System Engineering: Discussions

· Natural Systems – McNamara/Bar-Cohen

· Engineering Complex Systems – Studor/Jones

Sunday 1/26 PM

• • NSWG-6 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM (W)

  • Biomimicry World-wide

· “Biomimetics: Mimicking Nature to Enable New Technologies” – Yoseph Bar-Cohen https://sites.google.com/site/incosenswg/home/iw-2014/cohentalk

· “What Can Systems Engineers Learn from Natural Systems? Methodologies and Frameworks.” - Curt McNamara https://sites.google.com/site/incosenswg/home/iw-2014/mcnamara

• • NSWG-7 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM (T)

  • Future NSWG activities and participation

· Group Exercise: Monitoring for Natural Disasters https://sites.google.com/site/incosenswg/home/iw-2014/nswg_exercises

• • NSWG-8 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM (T)

  • Joint Session with NSWG: Systems Science, System Processes and Pathology –

• o Overview System Processes

• o Overview Natural Systems

• o Dialog and What’s Next?

Some of the sessions were recorded -- contact George or Curt at nswg-info@incose.org