Pat
Hale
Named
President-Elect of INCOSE
December
2, 2005
The
members of the International
Council on Systems Engineering
have chosen Pat Hale as president-elect.
Mr. Hale is director of MIT’s
System
Design and Management (SDM) Fellows
Program, and will serve as president-elect
in 2006-2007, assuming the office
of president for 2008-2009.
The
International Council on Systems Engineering
(INCOSE) is a global professional
society for systems engineers whose
mission is to foster the definition,
understanding, and practice of world
class systems engineering in industry,
academia, and government. INCOSE was
formed in 1990 to develop, nurture,
and enhance the interdisciplinary
approach and means to enable the realization
of successful systems. Since then,
INCOSE has grown dramatically. Today
there are over 6,000 member systems
engineers, 50 chartered chapters worldwide,
and more than 50 Corporate Advisory
Board members from government, industry,
and academia.
Mr.
Hale has been a member of INCOSE for
12 years, and has served on the INCOSE
Board of Directors for eight years.
He is currently Treasurer and will
assume his new post in January 2006.
He has published papers in the area
of commercial systems engineering
in the conference proceedings of both
INCOSE and ASME.
Mr.
Hale holds a B.S. in Geophysical Oceanography
from the University of Washington,
as well as the degrees of Ocean Engineer
and S.M. in Naval Architecture and
Marine Engineering from MIT. His professional
interests include application of systems
engineering in commercial product
development, complex naval system
design and engineering process frameworks
and methods.
Prior
to joining MIT, Mr. Hale completed
a 22 year career in the U.S. Navy,
qualifying in both Surface Warfare
and Submarine Warfare (Engineering
Duty) communities, and culminating
in managing the design and construction
of submarines in Groton, Connecticut.
Following his Navy career, Pat held
executive-level systems engineering
positions in defense and commercial
system and product development organizations,
including Director of Systems Engineering
at both Draper Laboratory and Otis
Elevator Company, where he developed
and implemented Otis’ first
systems engineering process and organization.
Since
joining MIT in 2003, Mr. Hale has
led the MIT-Industry Partner Systems
Engineering Certificate Program, a
one-year graduate certificate program
under SDM. He has been Director of
the SDM Fellows program since 2004.
Dr.
Donna Rhodes, INCOSE Past President
and Senior Lecturer in the MIT Engineering
Systems Division, expressed her enthusiasm
for Mr. Hale’s election, noting
that he has been a significant contributor
to INCOSE for many years. "Given
his knowledge of the INCOSE organization
and its operating environment, along
with his dedication to the advancement
of Systems Engineering, Pat will be
an outstanding INCOSE President,”
said Dr. Rhodes.
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