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Daniel
Roos
Japan
Steel Industry Professor of Engineering
Systems and Civil
and Environmental Engineering
Director, MIT
Portugal Program
Founding Director, MIT ESD
Dr.
Daniel Roos, Japan Steel Industry
Professor of Engineering Systems and
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
currently serves as Director of the
MIT Portugal Program, which is a five-year,
$40 million initiative focusing on
engineering systems. The program involves
over 40 MIT faculty from all five
schools at MIT.
Dr.
Roos was the Founding Director of
MIT’s Engineering Systems Division
(ESD) from 1998–2004 and serves
as Chair of the Engineering Systems
University Council, an organization
of universities with Engineering Systems
programs.
Previous
MIT responsibilities for Dr. Roos
include serving as Director of the
MIT Center for Transportation Studies,
and Director of the MIT Center for
Technology, Policy and Industrial
Development. Dr. Roos also served
as Special Assistant to the MIT Chancellor
and Provost, helping to form large-scale
industrial and global partnerships.
He had a leadership role in partnerships
with Ford, Merrill Lynch, and Cambridge
University in the U.K.
Dr.
Roos was Founding Director of the
International Motor Vehicle Program
(IMVP) and currently serves as Chair
of the IMVP Advisory Board. He is
co-author of The Machine that
Changed the World, which has
been published in 11 languages and
has sold over 600,000 copies. Dr.
Roos received the Shingo Prize for
Excellence in Manufacturing Research
and the Frank M. Masters Transportation
Engineering Award from the American
Society of Civil Engineers "for
his 25 year professional career in
directing a series of highly innovative
research projects of great relevance
in the advancement of urban transportation.”
Dr.
Roos has performed extensive consulting
assignments around the world for government
and industry. He served for 11 years
as consultant to the World Economic
Forum helping to organize and run
the annual Auto Governors Meeting
at the World Economic Forum Annual
Meeting in Davos Switzerland. The
Governors meeting is attended by 30
automotive CEOs.
Dr.
Roos has chaired and served on numerous
committees of the National Research
Council including chairing the first
National Academy study of intelligent
transportation systems, as National
Lecturer with the Association of Computing
Machinery; and as an officer with
the Transportation Research Board,
Operations Research Society of America,
American Society of Civil Engineers,
ITS America, and Council of University
Transportation Centers.
Updated
June 2007
News
and announcements:
Books
Published by Daniel Roos
NPR's
On Point features Prof. Daniel
Roos on Economics of Fuel Economy
(August 26, 2005)
Establishing
Leadership in the Emerging Field of
Engineering Systems (October
8, 2004)
Professor
Daniel Roos Delivers 2004 Miller Lecture
(June 9, 2004)
Building
the Engineering Systems Division,
an interview
with Daniel Roos.
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