Location:
E40-298
Time: 4:00-6:30 pm
Contact: Fran Marrone
Open to the entire ESD community
December
12, 2003
ESD Ph.D. Student and
Faculty Research Seminar
Faculty Speaker: Joel
Cutcher-Gershenfeld,
"Strategies for
Workforce Flexibility
and Capability: Lessons
from Boeing, St. Louis
and the IAM"
Student Speaker: Mike
Kometer
Location:
E40-298
Time: 4:30 - 6:00 pm
Open
to: ESD/TMP doctoral
students, ESD faculty
and ESD research staff
Description: Designed
to promote community
among ESD/TMP doctoral
students, ESD faculty
and ESD research staff,
this seminar series
enables interaction
and discussion on the
interesting intellectual
issues of systems. The
agenda for each session
is as follows.
-
~5
minutes for any ESD
announcements
-
15
minute ESD faculty
research presentation
-
5-10
minutes of questions
and discussion
-
15
minute ESD/TMP doctoral
student research presentation
-
5-10
minutes of questions
and discussion
-
~
5-15 minutes of discussion
related to any current
events, news stories,
or interesting articles
related to ESD
-
30
minutes for mingling/socializing
(or continued individual
discussions) in E40-298
December
10, 2003
Last day of Fall Classes
Location:
MIT
Time: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Description: Last day
of Classes.
Contact: Sydney
Miller - 617.452.3187
for TPP
Open To: The MIT
Community
December
9, 2003
ESD Faculty and Teaching
Staff Luncheon
Title: Pictures of ESD
Speaker: Danial Hastings
Location:
E40-298
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Contact: Fran Marrone
December
8, 2003
LFM ProSeminars
Speakers: Jan Klein and
Tom Kochan, MIT
Topic: Leadership
Location: E51-315
Time: 4:10 pm
Contact: Lane
Ballard, 425.418.2861
or 617.247.7645
December
2, 2003
ESD Faculty and Teaching
Staff Luncheon
Title: Should INFORMS
be the ESD professional
society?
Speaker: Richard C.
Larson
Location:
E40-298
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Contact: Fran Marrone
December
1, 2003
LFM ProSeminars
Speaker: Jim Champy, Perot
Consulting
Topic: Re-engineering
Location: E51-315
Time: 4:10 pm
Contact: Lane
Ballard, 425.418.2861
or 617.247.7645
November
25, 2003
ESD Faculty and Teaching
Staff Luncheon
Title: Engineering Education
Speaker: Christopher
Magee
Location:
E40-298
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Contact: Fran Marrone
November
24, 2003
LFM ProSeminars
Speaker: Rick Cohen, C&S
Groc.
Location: E51-315
Time: 4:10 pm
Contact: Mira
November
19, 2003
Drop Date
Location:
MIT
Time: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Description: Last day to
cancel subjects from Registration.
Contact: Sydney
Miller - 617.452.3187
for TPP
Open To: The MIT Community
November
18, 2003
ESD Faculty and Teaching
Staff Luncheon
Title: Research Talk
Speaker: Randolph Kirchain
Location:
E40-298
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Contact: Fran Marrone
November
17, 2003
LFM ProSeminars
Speaker: Ron Gettelfinger,
President of the United
Auto Workers, UAW
Location: E51-315
Time: 4:10 pm
Contact: Chris Caballero,
617.247.7645
November
17, 2003
The
Complex Structure of Internet
Topology Revisited
Speaker: Prof. John Doyle,
Caltech
Location: NE43-518
Time: 4:00 pm
Contact: Dina
Katabi, 617.324.6027
November
14, 2003
ESD Ph.D. Student and
Faculty Research Seminar
Faculty Speaker: Dan
Hastings, "Research
in Space System Architectures"
Student Speaker: Ben
Koo
Location:
E40-298
Time: 4:30 - 6:00 pm
Open
to: ESD/TMP doctoral students,
ESD faculty and ESD research
staff
Description: Designed
to promote community among
ESD/TMP doctoral students,
ESD faculty and ESD research
staff, this seminar series
enables interaction and
discussion on the interesting
intellectual issues of
systems. The agenda for
each session is as follows.
-
~5
minutes for any ESD
announcements
-
15
minute ESD faculty research
presentation
-
5-10
minutes of questions
and discussion
-
15
minute ESD/TMP doctoral
student research presentation
-
5-10
minutes of questions
and discussion
-
~
5-15 minutes of discussion
related to any current
events, news stories,
or interesting articles
related to ESD
-
30
minutes for mingling/socializing
(or continued individual
discussions) in E40-298
November
14, 2003
Please join us this
Friday, November 14,
from 12:00-1:00 in E60-225
for our regular CIPD
Seminar.
Location:
Cronkhite Center, Harvard,
Corner of Ash and Brattle
St (5 min walk from
Harvard Square)
Time: 2:30 - 5:00 pm
Contact: Keely
Gallagher, 617.495.1960
Lectures
on Research Findings
Reception to Follow
November
10, 2003
**** Note that this
is on a Monday, since
Tuesday is Veteran's
Day****
ESD Faculty and Teaching
Staff Luncheon
Title: MIT Finances
Speaker: Bob Brown/Phil
Clay
Location:
E40-298
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Contact: Fran Marrone
For
ESD Faculty and Senior
Staff only
Lunch
will be provided.
November
4, 2003
Brunel Lecture Series on
Complex Systems
Title: The
Columbia Tragedy: System-Level
Issues for Engineering
Speaker: Sheila Widnall
Click
here
to see Professor Widnall's
presentation on MIT World.
Location:
Pierce Hall, Building
1-190
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Contact: Fran Marrone
November
3, 2003
LFM ProSeminars
Speaker: Bob Tasca, Ford Car
Sales
Location: E51-315
Time: 4:10 pm
Contact: Chris Caballero,
425.418.2861 or 617.247.7645
November
3, 2003
TPP-ESD
Open House
Location:
E40-380
Time: 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
For further information
or to RSVP: Ann
Tremelling
or Sydney
Miller, 617.452.3187
October
31, 2003
ESD
Ph.D. Student and Faculty
Research Seminar
Presenters:
Student Speaker - Chris
Musso on "Beating the
System: Toward a Faster
Commercialization of New
Materials"
Faculty Speaker - Olivier
de Weck on "System
Architecture and Optimization
- Bridging the Chasm"
Location:
E40-298
Time: 4:30 - 6:00 pm
Open
to: ESD/TMP doctoral students,
ESD faculty and ESD research
staff
Contact:
Heidi
Davidz, 617.258.7984
October
28, 2003
ESD Faculty and Teaching
Staff Luncheon
Title: ESD Reorg/Finances
Speaker: Daniel Hastings
Location:
E40-298
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Contact: Fran Marrone
For
ESD Faculty and Senior Staff
only
October
27, 2003
LFM ProSeminars
Speaker: John Boyd, VP, UTC
Location: E51-315
Time: 4:10 pm
Contact: Cliff Smith or Lane
Ballard, 425.418.2861
or 617.247.7645
October
24, 2003
Please
join us this Friday from
12 to 1 in E60-225 for a
presentation by Eun Suk
Suh, Ph.D. Candidate, Engineering
Systems Division, on a "Market
Driven Design Process for
Flexible Product Platforms".
Location: E60-225
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Contact: Kathleen
A. Sullivan
Sponsored by CIPD
Lunch
will be provided.
At
1:30 in E60-225, Christian
Engau, who is a visiting
student at CIPD from Germany
this term, will present
his work on: Collaboration
between Original Equipment
Manufacturers and Aftermarket
Suppliers in the Automotive
Industry: Cooperation Models,
Benefits, and Limits.
October
21, 2003
ESD Faculty and Teaching
Staff Luncheon
Title: System
Topology Optimization -
Methods, Applications and
the Illities
Speaker: Olivier de Weck
Location:
E40-298
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Contact: Fran Marrone
October
20-24, 2003
SDM Fall 2003 Business Trip
Contact:
Ted
Hoppe, 617.252.1167
October
20-21, 2003
SDM Fall 2003 Open House
Contact:
Ted
Hoppe, 617.252.1167
October
17, 2003
ESD Ph.D. Student and
Faculty Research Seminar
Presenters:
Student Speaker - Rudy
Smaling on "Uncertainty
and Risk in the Pareto
Analysis of System Architectures"
Faculty
Speaker - John R. Williams
on "Grid and Agent
Based Computing for Large
Scale Simulation"
Location:
E40-298
Time: 4:30 - 6:00 pm
Open
to: ESD/TMP doctoral
students, ESD faculty
and ESD research staff
October
17, 2003
CIPD Lunch Seminar
Voluntary Provision of
Public Goods: Applications
to Web Panels
Rachel Croson, Associate
Professor, OPIM: The Wharton
School
Location:
E60-225
Contact: cipd@mit.edu,
Susan MacPhee, 617.253.3645
Description:
This talk will summarize
literature from experimental
economics, behavioral
economics and social
psychology examining
what motivates individuals
to contribute to public
goods (goods which benefit
many others as well
as themselves). For
each identified motivation,
we offer suggestions
on how to design and
implement web panels
for improved product
design and development.
October
14, 2003
ESD Faculty and Teaching
Staff Luncheon
Title: Lunch
with "ESD-like"
Departments
Speaker: Dan Roos
Location:
Faculty Club
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Contact: Fran Marrone
By
invitation only
Location:
MIT Faculty Club
Time: 10:30 am - 12:00
pm
Contact: Nancy
Martin, 617.253.1547
October
3, 2003
ESD
Ph.D. Student and Faculty
Research Seminar
Presenters:
Student Speaker - Troy Downen,
"Enterprise Architecture
and the Impact of Product
Value"
Faculty Speaker - Nicholas
A. Ashford, "Pathways
to Sustainable Industrial
Transformations: Co-optimizing
Competitiveness, Employment,
and Environment"
Location:
E40-298
Time: 4:30 - 6:00 pm
Open
to: ESD/TMP doctoral students,
ESD faculty and ESD research
staff
Contact: Heidi
Davidz, 617.258.7984
Location:
MIT
Time: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Description: Last day
to add subjects to Registration.
Contact: Sydney
Miller - 617.452.3187
for TPP
Open To: The MIT
Community
September
30, 2003
Update on External Symposium
-- Daniel Roos, Joel Moses,
and Tom Allen
Location:
E40-298
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Contact: Fran Marrone
For ESD Faculty and Teaching
Staff only
September
29, 2003
LFM ProSeminars
Speaker: John Deutch. MIT
Location: E51-315
Time: 4:10 pm
Contact: Aaron
Raphel or Lane
Ballard, 425.418.2861
or 617.247.7645
September
26, 2003
LitLab: 5S for Operators
- Webcast Discussion
Description:
Over the last three months,
an on-line discussion
about the book 5S for
Operators, 5 Pillars for
the Visual Workplace and
5S in general has been
going on at http://litlab5sforoperators.blogspot.com.
On September 26, we are
going to have a live discussion!
Time:
12:00 noon EST/9:00 a.m,
PST
Contact: Alison
McCaffree, LFM '99
This discussion is open
to everyone.
September
24, 2003
As a part of the MIT 2003
Career Week:
CANON Informational Session
Location:
Room 1-190
Time: 5-6:30PM
Bertucci's pizza and door
prizes will be provided.
Come and learn about the
exciting career opportunities
offered by Canon!
September
24, 2003
LFM ProSeminars
Speakers: Gerald Elson (Vice
President and General Manager
Vehicle Operations) and Eric
Stevens (Executive Director,
Manufacturing Engineering)
Location: E51-315
Time: 4:10 pm
Contact: Jason Connally
or
Lane
Ballard, 425.418.2861
or 617.247.7645
Location:
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Cambridge,
MA
Contact: Nancy
Martin, 617.253.1547
September
23, 2003
The Engineering Systems
Learning Center Kickoff
-- Joel Cutcher Gershenfeld
Location:
E40-298
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Contact: Fran Marrone
For ESD Faculty and Teaching
Staff only
September
20, 2003
2003 Leadership Weekend
- ESD.801
Location:
Browne Center/New England
Center - Durham, NH
Start Time: 6:30
am
End Time: September
21, 2003 at 4:30 pm
Description:
The "hands on"
portion of ESD.801-Leadership
Development taught by
Joel Kutcher-Gershenfeld
at the Browne Center/New
England Center at UNH
in Durham, New Hampshire.
The weekend features a
customized professional
development experience
focusing on leadership.
Contact: Melissa
Manolis - 617.253.7693;
TPP
Open To: REQUIRED
ATTENDANCE - All 1st Year
TPP Students
September
19, 2003
ESD Ph.D. Student and
Faculty Research Seminar
by Professor Dan Frey
and doctoral student Samudra
Vijay
Location:
E40-298
Time: 4:30 - 6:00 pm
Open
to: ESD/TMP doctoral students,
ESD faculty and ESD research
staff
Description:
Designed to promote community
among ESD/TMP doctoral
students, ESD faculty
and ESD research staff,
this seminar series enables
interaction and discussion
on the interesting intellectual
issues of systems. The
agenda for each session
is as follows.
-
~5
minutes for any ESD
announcements
-
15
minute ESD faculty research
presentation
-
5-10
minutes of questions
and discussion
-
15
minute ESD/TMP doctoral
student research presentation
-
5-10
minutes of questions
and discussion
-
~
5-15 minutes of discussion
related to any current
events, news stories,
or interesting articles
related to ESD
-
30
minutes for mingling/socializing
(or continued individual
discussions) in E40-298
September
19, 2003
CIPD Seminars Series
Selecting
Enabling Factors in Product
Development: Targeting Their
Impact on Organizational
Performance
Time:
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Location: E60-225
Contact: cipd@mit.edu,
Susan MacPhee, 617.253.3645
September
19, 2003
Terence
Fan is happy to announce
his thesis defense: Market-based
Airport Demand Management
- Theory, Model and Applications
Time:
9:30 to 11:30 am
Location: Room: E52-244
Contact:
Sydney
Miller, 617.452.3187
September
19, 2003
LFM Midstream Review
Time:
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location: MIT Faculty Club
Open to: LFM-SDM partner
companies, MIT faculty and
students
Description:
Midstream Review of LFM
'04 internship projects
being done at LFM partner
and participating companies
Contact: Paul
Gallagher, 617.253.3659
September
19, 2003
FALL
2003 UROP Direct Funding
Deadline
Contact:
urop@mit.edu,
617.253-7306
September
18, 2003
ESD
Open House
Location:
E40 second floor lobby and
E40-298
Time: 4:00 - 6:30 pm
Contact: Fran Marrone
September
18, 2003
Pharmaceuticals:
Just a Cost Factor?
Dr. Daniel Vasella
CEO, Novartis
Location:
Bartos Theater
Time: 12:00 - 1:15 pm
Description:
Recently, the Pharmaceutical
Industry has made headlines
- mostly negative ones:
high prices, little innovation,
patent extensions - the
list is long.
In
"Pharmaceuticals: Just
a Cost Factor?" Daniel
Vasella, MD, Chairman and
CEO of Novartis AG, provides
candid answers to compelling
questions: Are Americans
spending too much on healthcare
and drugs, and are prices
for medicines too high?
What are we getting in return?
Why is Novartis committed
to investing in research
and development of innovative
drugs? Are pharmaceutical
companies really interested
in helping patients in need,
or just financially driven?
In answering these questions,
Dr. Vasella will explore
the business and societal
context in which the industry
operates, the dynamics of
Novartis' search for novel
drugs, and the strategy
that has made Novartis one
of the most successful Pharmaceutical
corporations.
After
his presentation, Dr. Vasella
will answer questions from
the audience.
Contact:
Diane
Vrattos, 617.253.0414
September
16, 2003
Should INCOSE be the Professional
Society for ESD? Donna Rhodes
Location:
E40-298
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Contact: Fran Marrone
For ESD Faculty and Teaching
Staff only
September
12, 2003
Product Complexity Metrics
for Design (a framework)
Carlos Rodriguez-Toro, Cranfield
University, UK
Location:
E60-225
Start Time: 12:00 pm
Description:
The objective of this talk
is to present concepts of
complexity in support of
assembly-oriented design,
in order to guide the designer
in creating a product with
the most effective balance
of manufacturing and assembly
difficulty. The goal is
to provide the designer
with such information throughout
the design process so that
an efficient design is produced
in the first instance.
After
a brief summary of the research
background, it presents
the latest challenge in
the current project 'the
Designers' Sandpit' (The
term somehow reflects the
truth that research is a
form of creative play).
A research project and collaborative
effort between the Universities
of Hull and Cranfield (United
Kingdom) with the intention
of using design evaluation
tools such as Design for
Assembly (DFA), which have
demonstrated some success
in reducing problems such
as redesign, rework and
a lengthy product introduction
period.
The
above mentioned challenge
is, mainly, the need for
considering and measuring
complexity in product design
and its appraisal during
manufacturing analysis and
process selection. But,
since definitions of the
term complexity can be found
with so many variations,
that is, they are only valid
within the appropriate situation,
making it nothing but an
abstract estimation that
heavily depends on the context
used. An ideal interpretation
is required to compare variants
of different complexities
and the formulation of metrics
that can be used in conjunction
with other measures. The
final proposal is then the
creation of an environment
in which complexity makes
sense, but can be measured
accurately and subjectively,
conveying the whole idea
of complexity metrics and
design advice at the same
time.
The
current research is still
an ongoing work that will
eventually be encoded into
the projects own software,
producing a framework that
will give advice to the
designer as he/she goes
along in his/her task.
Contact:
Susan MacPhee, cipd@mit.edu,
617.253.3645
September
12, 2003
ESD.801 Leadership Development
- Session 1
Location:
4-231
Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Description: First meeting
of ESD.801
Contact: Joel
Cutcher-Gershenfeld
- 617.253.7693; TPP
Open To: 1st Year TPP
Students
September
9, 2003
ESD Academic Year Plans
and Priorities -- Daniel
Roos and Daniel Hastings
Location:
E40-298
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Contact: Fran Marrone
For ESD Faculty and Teaching
Staff only
September
8, 2003
CIPD Seminar
Location:
E60-225
Time: 12:00 -1:00 pm
Open to: MIT Community
Description: CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT
- Experiences on the creation
and implementation of a
concept development support
tool into Nokia
Contact: Susan MacPhee,
cipd@mit.edu,
617.253.3645
September
8, 2003
LFM UK Midstream Review
Location:
London
Time: 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Open to: Project sponsors
and faculty advisors
Description: Midstream Review
of the five LFM 04 internship
projects being done in the
UK; projects funded in part
by Cambridge-MIT Institute
Contact: Jon
Griffith, 617.253.3799
September
5, 2003
"Lean
and IT -- How Software Supports
Lean Manufacturing"
Mark Graban, LFM '99
Description:
Mark's talk will discuss
the conventional wisdom
related to lean manufacturing
and planning software, as
well as the challenges faced
by companies that are going
through a lean transformation.
Topics will include the
characteristics of the emerging
market for lean manufacturing
software, the philosophical
differences between ERP/MRP/APS
and lean software, and some
real-world case studies
from his experiences. If
you are interested in attending
Mark's session and have
not already received a notice
of how to join, please let
me know at pfgallag@mit.edu.
Time: 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm
Eastern Time
Contact: