General Motors LFM Professor of Management Science
Professor of Engineering Systems
Deputy Dean, MIT Sloan School of Management

Dr. Eppinger received an Sc.D. from MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. His experience includes work as a machinist, manufacturing engineer, product designer, and consultant in both prototype and production operations. He has consulted for, or conducted research with, more than fifty firms. Dr. Eppinger served as director of CIPD and co-director of LFM-SDM before taking his current assignment as Deputy Dean of the Sloan School.

At the Sloan School of Management, Dr. Eppinger created an interdisciplinary product development course, in which graduate students from engineering, management, and industrial design programs collaborate to develop new products. He also teaches MIT's executive programs in the area of product development and project management. Dr. Eppinger has co-authored a textbook entitled Product Design and Development, 4th edition (2008). In 1993, he received both MIT’s Graduate Student Council Teaching Award and the Sloan School’s Award for Innovation and Excellence in Management Education.

Dr. Eppinger's research efforts are applied to improving product design and development practices. This research focuses on organizing complex design processes in order to accelerate industrial practices. This work has been applied primarily in the automotive, electronics, aerospace, and equipment industries. He received the ASME Best Paper Award in Design Theory and Methodology in 1995 and again in 2001.

Updated November 2007

News and announcements:

Books Published by Steven D. Eppinger

Prof. Steve Eppinger on best practices in lean and global product development (July 11, 2007)

Eppinger named MIT Sloan interim dean (June 13, 2007)

Prof. Eppinger honored as Distinguished Fellow by Product and Operations Management Society (May 26, 2006)

Steve Eppinger – Still Peddling (September 21, 2005)

Publications by Professor Eppinger

Executive Courses taught by Professor Eppinger

Steven Eppinger Receives Award for Best Paper (February 2002)