European Systems Engineering Conference

About: The Gesellschaft für Systems Engineering e.V. - German Chapter of INCOSE was founded as a non-profit organisation in 1997. In the early days, GfSE owed the Institute of Astronautics at the Technische Universität München under Professor Eduard Igenbergs its initial strength. He and his current and former students have been major contributors to GfSE. Support was given by industry with EADS Astrium specifically to be mentioned.

The highlight of this era was the 2nd European Systems Engineering Conference - EuSEC 2000 at the premises of the Technische Universität München. This event attracted many system engineers from Germany, Europe and abroad. The EuSEC 2000 left GfSE with an increased and stable membership and financial strength. This allowed investments in GfSE's future by expanding and consolidating the activities in order to foster systems engineering in industry, science and education. GfSE membership is constantly growing. GfSE's success is further demonstrated by its improving recognition as the leading systems engineering society in Germany and by its member's contribution to INCOSE and the INCOSE Region 3.

Current Activities:

Conferences and Workshops

The main annual event is the Tag des Systems Engineering (Day of Systems Engineering). This two day conference is traditionally held in November. It consists of public presentation tracks featuring achievements in systems engineering applications and other subjects of general interest. At the end the annual general meeting of GfSE takes place.

The Day of Systems Engineering is complemented by so called Anwenderforen (User Forums). User Forums are thematically more focussed. They are scheduled for a one to two days duration. The presentation track is regularly augmented by some workshop elements, and, if possible, a social event in order to enrich the communication between all participants.

Workshops are GfSE meetings where one or more GfSE Working Groups convene to advance their topic or people with special interest and topics come together to discuss and solve it.

In addition to events GfSE organises on its own, GfSE cooperates with other organisations further conferences regularly or in special occasions.

Internal Working Groups

Internal Working Groups consider systems engineering subjects for a better understanding and for advances to the particular topic. Emphasis is placed on translating systems engineering theory to practical application in middle-European organisational environments.

Currently, working groups on three subjects are active with a further one being in preparation:

• Systems Engineering for Small and Medium Enterprises
• Design to Cost
• Model based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
• Systems Engineering Training and Education

Awards

One indirect outcome of the first Educational Forum 2005 is the preparation of an award package for master and diploma theses.

Authors of high quality master and diploma theses considering systems engineering subjects and completed in 2005 are possible candidates for the award. The award criteria comprise a review of the master and diploma theses and an assessment of the communicational skills of the authors when presenting their theses.

The underlying objective of the award is to join university and industry with interests in systems engineering in a combined effort for fostering an improved recognition of systems engineering as a profession and as a key factor for success in engineering complex systems.

Members:

GfSE has currently more than 300 members. In addition to a personal membership package, GfSE offers a local corporate membership that has attracted twenty-six organisations up to now.

Contact:

Gesellschaft für Systems Engineering e.V.
Dietlindenstraße 15
D-80802 München

Telefon: +49 (0) 89 36036-808
Telefax: +49 (0) 89 36036-700

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Internet: www.gfse.de or www.gfse.org