| Richard
de Neufville
Professor of Engineering Systems and Civil
and Environmental Engineering
Dr. de Neufville is an engineer
and system designer. His research and teaching now focus
on inserting flexibility into the design of technological
systems. Major industrial and government projects show that
the use of “real options”, enabling managers
to react to unanticipated events, significantly increases
overall expected performance. This work implies a fundamental
shift in the engineering design paradigm, from a focus on
fixed specifications, to a concern with system performance
under the broad range of situations that could occur. His book Flexibility in Design (co-authored with Stefan Scholtes of the University of Cambridge) is being published by the MIT Press in 2011.
Dr. de Neufville is particularly
known for innovations in engineering education. He was the
Founding Chairman of the MIT Technology and Policy Program,
and author of 6 major texts on systems analysis in engineering.
This work has been recognized by Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships,
the NATO Systems Science Prize; the Sizer Award for the
Most Significant Contribution to MIT Education, the Martore
and MIT Effective Teaching Awards, and the US Federal Aviation
Award for Excellence in Teaching. The French Government
made him a Chevalier des Palmes Académiques.
He has extensive international
connections. He holds appointments from the Judge Management
School at Cambridge, the Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon), and at the Kennedy School of Government
at Harvard. He has been a visiting professor at the University
of California, Berkeley; University of Calgary; London Graduate
School of Business; Oxford; Ecole Centrale and the Ecole
Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (Paris). He spent
a sabbatical in Japan as a US-Japan Leadership Fellow.
He is known worldwide for his
applications in Airport Systems Planning, Design, and Management.
He has been associated with major airport projects in North
America, Europe, Asia, Australia – as well as others
in Africa and Latin America.
He has a Ph.D. from MIT and a
Dr. h.c. from the Delft University of Technology. In 1965
he served as a first White House Fellow for President Lyndon
Johnson.
In the ESD, he has served as
Chair of the Education Policy Committee.
Books Published:
Books
Published by Richard de Neufville
Flexibility in Engineering Design, by Richard de Neufville and Stefan Scholtes, provides a high-level overview of why flexibility in design is needed to deliver significantly increased value and describes methods to identify, select and implement flexibility. Read more about the book and the MIT Press Engineering Systems Book Series on the MIT Press website.
de
Neufville and Odoni Publish New Textbook on Airport Systems – January 2003
Selected Publications:
Related News:
Richard de Neufville's research on airport privatization quoted - Atlanta Journal Constitution (also picked up by AirportBusiness.com) – February 8, 2010
Richard de Neufville quoted in Le Monde Diplomatique article about airports
(publication in French) – November 2009
Richard
de Neufville interviewed about air transportation in Portugal article in Portuguese, IOL Portugal Diário –
July 7, 2009
Richard
de Neufville quoted in article about Branson Airport
Dallas Morning News – May 11, 2009
Richard
de Neufville quoted in New York Times coverage of Branson
Airport – April 21, 2009
Related article in NYT
DealBook blog
Prof.
Richard de Neufville quoted in Greensboro News Record (NC)
story about FedEx – September 18, 2008
Professor
Richard de Neufville to receive the Francis X. McKelvey
Award – August 28, 2008
Articles
by Professors de Neufville and Sussman in summer issue of
The Bridge, on Airport and Intelligent Transportation Systems
– June 26, 2008
Prof.
Richard de Neufville in the Arizona Republic, on preference
by low-cost airlines for budget terminals – Gateway
Airport aims for efficiencies, low costs – June 25, 2008
Click here for archived news items
|
