NSWG webinars

Abstract

The Natural Systems Working Group (NSWG) was founded and chartered in January, 2013. It has two major, long-term goals:

• Facilitate increased dialog between SE and Natural Systems communities of practice

• Influence SE processes to routinely consider and appropriately take advantage of Natural Systems data and concepts

One of the primary activities used to support meeting these goals is sponsoring a series of monthly community-of-practice webinars. To date, 14 webinars have been conducted. These have ranged across a variety of topics. The NSWG intends to continue these webinars —hopefully on a monthly basis. Initially, since we were new endeavor, topic selection was based on finding key leaders in the field who were willing to present on topics that of interest and relevant. As the NSWG moves forward, we anticipate using a more structured process—and using multiple perspectives for finding and selection of topics and presenters. This session introduces for discussion a potential set of these perspectives. Reactions, comments,

and refinement is solicited.

Biography

Dr. Lawrence D. Pohlmann, now a mostly retired consultant living on a mountaintop in Western North Carolina, has been a practicing systems engineer for more than 30 years. He has participated in research and development for military ground and airborne systems, for space systems, and for information technology systems. He has worked in government, large and small industry contexts, and in academia. He has led and participated in process improvement activities for processes in systems engineering, software engineering, ergonomics, and business propagation.