and 
The SCRTTC has agreed to host
an ITS America course in Northern California. Please find the following details below:
Course
Title: ITS
for Systems Engineering (Detailed
description below)
Course Schedule:
Wednesday, April
30, 2008
1:00pm – 4:30pm Registration
Opens(12:30pm)
Thursday,
May 1, 2008
8:30am –
4:30pm
*Course
Location:
MTC
Joseph
P. Bort Metro Center
101
Eight Street,
Room #171
Oakland,
CA
94607
Main
Telephone: 510-817-5700
Located
adjacent to the Lake Merritt BART Station
*The
course location is
ADA
accessible and reachable via public transportation.
Please notify the
SCRTTC immediately if there is
a problem.
ITS
America
Instructor: Mac
Lister (Instructor Overview below)
TO
REGISTER: **
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Workshop Description
Systems Engineering for Intelligent
Transportation System Projects
The workshop will provide a high-level view of
System Engineering. The importance
and benefits, and the implications for management will be discussed, as will
basic systems engineering concepts in the context of ITS projects.
Specifically the workshop will include information on the Federal
requirements for systems engineering as documented in Rule 940.11, the benefits
of applying Systems Engineering and the organizational implications of its
application in traditional project development and implementation processes,
training and technical resources available to further your understanding of
Systems Engineering and its application, and an overview and breakdown of the
Systems Engineering process. The
workshop will help participants understand the benefits of applying systems
engineering approaches as a means of developing quality systems.
The
Federal Transportation Administration (FTA) and Federal
Highway Administration (FHWA) have developed new guidance to advance Systems
Engineering in the transportation community.
This day and a half Systems Engineering Workshop uses the new “FTA
& FHWA
Systems Engineering for Intelligent Transportation Systems: An Introduction for
Transportation Professionals” guide as a primary reference to introduce
systems engineering to management, ITS project managers, technical and project
staff. Group discussions will
provide an opportunity for participants to share successes and challenges of
implementing the system engineering process within their agency.
INSTRUCTOR:
Mac
Lister
ITS
Specialist,
FHWA
Resource
Center
Mac has over 35 years of experience in the field of information
systems. Before joining FHWA ten years ago, he had worked as an IT manager for
25 years, the last 12 of which were for a public transit agency. His ITS areas
of expertise are 511 technology/overall operations, the National ITS
Architecture, ITS professional capacity building, and systems engineering.
Mac provides training, outreach and technical support for the
National ITS Architecture and Systems Engineering programs. He is also the team
leader for the FHWA
'
s National Field Support team; the field co-chair for the FHWA Operations
Council
'
s architecture and systems engineering working groups; and a member of the 511
Deployment Coalition Working Group.
Mac is a certified instructor and a master trainer for NHI. He
teaches courses in ITS Software Acquisition, Systems Engineering and National
ITS Architecture. He has also been an independent consultant to ITS
America
. Mac is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Contact him at: mac.lister@fhwa.dot.gov
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REGISTER: **
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