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International Symposium: Update As we are not having a Spring Conference this year, to keep people’s diaries clear for the International Symposium, INCOSE UK will keep giving you regular updates on the event in Holland.

Within the IS08 theme of “Systems Engineering for the Planet”, specific sub-themes that focus on the application of engineering in complex consumer and industrial systems, transportation, water management and embedded systems have been announced. These special tracks include specific paper presentations, an off-site tour and a concluding panel discussion. The presentations will be given by experts from Europe, America, Asia and Australia. The paper presentations will cover innovation in architecture, risk and requirement management, process improvement, cost and value engineering of electric, electronic, aerospace and defence and other well known sectors. Details of the program and registration details can be found on the conference website www.incose.org/symp2008.

See also the IS08 Press Release, 24 April 2008: Balanced engineering solution for the planet - Tracks on Water Management and embedded Systems  .

INCOSE in the News. Following the recent “interesting times” at Heathrow Terminal 5, BBC’s Newsnight ran a feature on the difficulties inherent in building large complex systems. BBC contacted INCOSE and asked for an expert to join Heinz Wolff and talk to Gavin Essler as part of the feature. Allen Fairbairn responded to the request and took part in an interesting discussion. The programme is available on BBC’s iPlayer for the next few days: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b009ny9v.shtml (wind forward to 18 mins 25 seconds for the start of the article). Well done Allen for making himself available at short notice and flying the SE flag.

INCOSE UK Continues to Grow in Strength. New heights have been reached for individual membership as we recently sailed through 700 members. In addition, the formal signing of AWE on March 18th brings UKAB membership up to a total of 22.

Keep Your Membership Details Up-To-Date. If we have incorrect contact details for you on the Central Database it is possible for you to correct them yourself. Follow the Update Your Member Record link from the list of member resources on the right side of Connect (direct link is https://www.incose.org/membersOnly/memberInfo/updateMemberInfo.cfm), you will see your complete record and you can change any contact information. To ensure that you do not miss out on any UK distribution please also let the UK administrator know (john.mead@incose.org).

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UK Advisory Board Continues to Grow. The UK Advisory Board provides advice to the INCOSE UK Board on the practice, dissemination, training, accreditation and advancement of Systems Engineering within UK Industry and academia. The UKAB has grown dramatically during the past year, with 20 companies represented. Recent members include Halcrow, Horizon, GCHQ, Vega Group, The Salamander Organisation and The University of Bristol.

The Guide to Competency Evaluation (Word) document is now available for download. Please see the Products page for the competency framework  and other guides such as the One Page Guides to Systems Engineering.

Reach out to over 700 Systems Engineers - Advertise in Preview and ePreview. Preview and ePreview are sent to every INCOSE UK Member.  Copies are often made available at local group events, and an electronic copy can be downloaded by visitors to our web site.  Each edition will be read by over 500 systems engineering professionals, giving a unique path to a clearly defined market segment.  You can benefit from this exposure by advertising your company, product or service in Preview and ePreview, for as little as £250 for a full page colour advertisement in Preview, or £300 for a paragraph and link in ePreview.  For further details, and special member rates, contact our Administrator, John Mead, at john.mead@incose.org.

INCOSE ENHANCES CAREER SERVICES   INCOSE has partnered with JobTarget to deliver a full-featured job site developed explicitly for the systems engineering community.  Individuals can post their resume free of charge and create personal alerts so that they are notified when opportunities are available. Employers can search the resume database and post job openings.  You are all encouraged to use this benefit -  details are at http://www.incose.org/newsevents/news/details.aspx?id=96, and at http://jobsconnection.incose.org/.

DELIVERING ONLINE ACCESS TO INCOSE PROCEEDINGS     The proceedings of the many INCOSE symposia and conference hold a wealth of knowledge and comprise a key resource for the systems community. IPUB, INCOSE's online publications database, provides online access to this resource. You can now search for a paper using the author’s name, a keyword in the title or abstract, or the year -  all you need is your INCOSE Connect account.  Details: http://www.incose.org/newsevents/news/details.aspx?id=97.