Brunel
Lecture Series on Complex Systems
Engineering Systems Division
Lecture:
Engineering Engineering Systems
by Thomas
L. Magnanti
Institute Professor
Dean, MIT School of Engineering
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About
the Lecture:
As illustrated
by the National Academy of Engineering’s list of great
engineering achievements of the 20th Century, many of the
most remarkable and important engineering accomplishments
of the past have been large complex technical systems. What
intellectual bases and professional skills are required
for the engineering of such systems? How does the answer
to this question affect the design of educational programs
in engineering systems or approaches to the engineering
of complex technical systems?
In this
talk, Dean Magnanti will raise some issues related to these
questions, contrasting engineering systems with other fields
and drawing, in part, on the design and development of MIT’s
Leaders for
Manufacturing and System
Design and Management programs.
About
the Speaker:
Thomas
Magnanti is Dean of Engineering
and one of fourteen Institute Professors at MIT. He has
devoted much of his professional career to education that
combines engineering and management and to teaching and
research in applied and theoretical aspects of large-scale
optimization. He has received numerous educational and research
awards and currently serves on several corporate and university
boards. As Dean, he has focused on educational innovation,
industrial and international partnerships, technical-based
entrepreneurship, diversity, and innovation in emerging
domains such as bioengineering, tiny technologies, information
engineering, and engineering systems. He is a founding co-director
of both the Leaders for Manufacturing and the System Design
and Management Programs.
About
the Series:
THE
BRUNEL LECTURE SERIES ON COMPLEX SYSTEMS was made
possible by funds assembled and underwritten by Frank P.
Davidson, convener of the Channel Tunnel Study Group (1957).
It was this group's design, accomplished by agreement with
Bechtel Corporation, Brown & Root, Inc. and Morrison-Knudsen
Company, Inc. in 1959, that formed the basis of the subsea
railway link now in service between England and France.
Mr.
Davidson is a retired Senior Research Associate at MIT.
From 1970-1996, he was Chairman of the System Dynamics Steering
Committee, Sloan School of Management, and Coordinator of
the Macro-Engineering Research Group at MIT's School of
Engineering. He co-edited, with C. Lawrence Meador, Macro-Engineering:
Global Infrastructure Solutions, subtitled Massachusetts
Institute of Technology Brunel Lectures 1983-1992. With
Ernst G. Frankel and C. Lawrence Maedor, he co-edited Macro-Engineering,
subtitled MIT Brunel Lectures on Global Infrastructure.
These volumes, published by Ellis Horwood and Horwood Publishing
Limited in 1992 and 1997, respectively, appeared in Chichester,
England, as did Macro-Problems and World Projects, subtitled
Essays in Honor of Frank Davidson, which appeared
in 1998, on the occasion of Mr. Davidsons retirement and
80th birthday. The latter volume was edited by MIT Professor
Emeritus Ernst G. Frankel and by Uwe Kitzinger, CBE, former
president of Templeton College, Oxford, and now a Visiting
Scholar at Harvard.
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