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INCOSE Michigan Chapter May Dinner Meeting:
Engineering a Safer World - (Presented by Nancy Leveson)
May 18th, 2011 - 5-8:30 PM

Wednesday, May 18, 2011 from 5:00 PM to 8:30 PM (ET)

Sterling Heights, MI

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INCOSE Michigan Chapter - May Dinner Meeting

"Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety"

(Speaker: Nancy Leveson, MIT Prof. & System Safety Expert)

MIT Prof. Nancy Leveson

What:  Dinner & presentation by MIT Professor, Nancy Leveson

When:  Wednesday, May 18th, 2011 (5-8:30 PM)

Where: Sterling Inn (Best Western), Sterling Heights 

Cost: First 30: $10 members/$15 non-members/$5 students SOLD OUT
Thereafter: $15 members/$25 non-members/$10 students

PDUs:  Earn 2 PDUs for ASEP/CSEP renewal

About the Event: 

Join the Michigan chapter of INCOSE (http://www.incose.org/michigan) for dinner and a discussion of how to engineer safe systems through the application of System Engineering.  MIT Professor and industry renowned systems & software safety engineering expert, Nancy Leveson, will be presenting some of her thoughts and work on the topic, including a preview of methods she and her team have developed and her upcoming book, "Engineering a Safer World", to be published by MIT Press later this fall http://sunnyday.mit.edu/safer-world/.

Program Schedule:

5:00 p.m. Social Hour [Cash bar available]
6:00 p.m. Dinner & Announcements
6:30 p.m. Presentation by MIT Professor Nancy Leveson
Engineering a Safer World – Systems Thinking Applied to safety”
7:30 p.m. Q&A Session
8:30 p.m. Adjourn / “Meet the Speaker”

Other Event Details:

Registration includes dinner and the program.


Presenter Biography:

Prof. Nancy Leveson

Nancy Leveson is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and also Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Prof. Leveson conducts research on the topics of system safety, software safety, software and system engineering, and human-computer interaction. In 1999, she received the ACM Allen Newell Award for outstanding computer science research and in 1995 the AIAA Information Systems Award for "developing the field of software safety and for promoting responsible software and system engineering practices where life and property are at stake." In 2005 she received the ACM Sigsoft Outstanding Research Award. She has published over 200 research papers and is author of a book, "Safeware: System Safety and Computers" published by Addison-Wesley. She consults extensively in many industries on the ways to prevent accidents.

More information about Nancy and her work can be found at:
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/ 

 

When & Where



Best Western Sterling Inn
34911 Van Dyke Avenue
Sterling Heights, MI 48312-4662

Wednesday, May 18, 2011 from 5:00 PM to 8:30 PM (ET)


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