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1st National Congress on Systems Engineering

1st National Congress on Systems Engineering

Isdefe’s headquarters hosted the 1st National Congress on Systems Engineering, held on 25 October.

The event was organised by the Systems Engineering Observatory of Isdefe’s Horizons Network, in concert with the Spanish Association of Systems Engineering (AEIS) – the Spanish chapter of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), and was attended by public managers, companies and members of the academic community. Included amongst the public managers were representatives from the Ministry of Defence’s Directorate General for Armaments and Materiel (DGAM), the Institute for Aerospace Technology (INTA), the Administrator of Railway Infrastructure (ADIF) and the manager of Spain’s air navigation, ENAIRE.

As for industry, several companies from different areas and of different sizes and specialisations were represented, such as Airbus, URO, Talgo, Teltronic, Altran and GMV.

Representing academia were officials from Virginia Tech University in the United States, and from the European University of Madrid.

Opening this 1st National Congress on Systems Engineering was the Director of Business Development at Isdefe, Mr Jesús Alonso Martín, and the President of AEIS, Mr Juan Llorens Morillo, who co-hosted the closing ceremony with the manager of the Systems Engineering Observatory of Isdefe’s Horizons Network, Mr Andrés Cabanillas.

The event featured a series of presentations and debates in which the speakers discussed how they apply systems engineering in their line of work, noting the best practices and the future challenges facing this discipline.

Opening the congress was Dr Alejandro Salado (Virginia Tech), who gave an inspirational talk on how systems engineering is at the crossroads between business, process and product, and makes it possible for highly complex projects to be successful.

Six success stories, from the defence, automotive, rail, telecommunications, aeronautical and space industries were presented during the congress, and two roundtables were held to discuss the application of systems engineering as a tool to ensure the successful outcome of high-availability systems and the management of high-risk technology projects in the “aeronautical and transport infrastructure sectors” and in the “defence and space sectors”.

As for the large crowds at the congress, they consisted of members of industry, companies and administration representatives, as well as Isdefe personnel and AEIS guests.

In parallel with this event, two sessions were offered in which some thirty engineers (including 21 from Isdefe) sat the INCOSE ASEP/CSEP certification exam in an effort to obtain this prestigious certification.