ESD Event Archives

December 22, 2004
ESD Thesis Defense – Serena Chan
Title: Architectures for a Space-Based Information Network with Shared On-Orbit Processing Resources

Location: 34-401A
Time: 1:00 pm
Contact: Eda Daniel
Details: Click here for more details.

December 21, 2004 - This has been postponed until January 2005
ESD Thesis Defense – Hsueh-Yung (Benjamin) Koo
Title: A Meta-Language for System Architecting

Location: TBA
Time: 1:00 pm
Contact: Eda Daniel

December 21, 2004
Center for Transportation and Logistics Seminar
Topic: Factoring Logistics and Supply Chain into the Technology Roadmap
Speaker: Dr. Louis Manzione, Executive Director, Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs- Europe

Location: E40-298
Time: 10:00 - 11:00 am
Open to: MIT Community
Contact: Larry Lapide

December 20, 2004
ESD Thesis Defense – Samudra Vijay
Title: The Role of Technology and Market-Based Policy Instruments in Reducing Industrial Air Pollution in Mexico City

Location: E40-298
Time: 9:00 am
Contact: Eda Daniel
Details: Click here for more details.
A draft of Samudra Vijay's thesis is available in Eda Daniel's office, E40-249.

December 16, 2004
ESD Holiday Party

Location: E40-298
Time: 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Open to: Entire ESD community

December 14, 2004
LFM-SDM Web Conference
Title: LFM Alumni Council - December Meeting

Time: 12:00 noon
Contact: Alison McCaffree
Details: Click here for more details.

December 14, 2004
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Title: Strategic Planning
Speaker: Daniel Hastings

Location: E40-298
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Fran Marrone

December 13, 2004
LFM-SDM Web Conference
Title: Flexible Manufacturing Summit

Time: 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Contact: You must RSVP to Alison McCaffree if you would like to attend.
Details: Click here for more details.

December 13, 2004
Donating to Toys for Tots

Location: TPP lounge, E40-380
Open to: Entire ESD Community

In the spirit of giving, the TPP Student Society will be collecting toys for the Massachusetts chapter of Toys for Tots.

If you are interested in contributing, please bring a new, unwrapped, non-violent toy (around in value $10 would be great!) to the TPP Lounge E40-380 on December 9,10 or at the ESD study break December 13 (also in TPP lounge 12:30).

If you are interested in contributing, but do not have time to shop for a toy, Toys for Tots also accepts monetary donations. These donations can be dropped off to Yoko Urano, TPP Administrative Assistant, Room E40-369.
For more information on Toys for Tots.

For more information on the TPSS activity, please contact Alisa Rhee.

December 13, 2004
TPP-Sponsored Study Break

Location: TPP lounge, E40-380
Time: 12:30 pm
Open to: All ESD students

We'll have sandwiches, snacks, and other goodies.

December 10, 2004
ESS Social Hour

The ESD Student Society holds an every-other-Friday social hour, an informal and fun way for you to meet fellow ESD S.M. and Ph.D. students

Location: Muddy Charles Pub
Time: 5:00 pm

December 10, 2004
CIPD Special Seminar Presentation
Title: Lean Systems Engineering
Speaker: Donna Rhodes, LAI Principal Researcher and ESD Senior Lecturer

Location: E60-275
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Contact: Susan MacPhee, 617.324.4005
Details: Click here for more details.

Lunch Provided by the Center for Innovation in Product Development.

December 10, 2004
Donating to Toys for Tots

Location: TPP lounge, E40-380
Open to: Entire ESD Community

In the spirit of giving, the TPP Student Society will be collecting toys for the Massachusetts chapter of Toys for Tots.

For more information on the TPSS activity, please contact Alisa Rhee.

December 9, 2004
TPP Holiday Party

Location: TPP lounge, E40-380
Time: 5:30 - 7:00 pm
Open to: TPP and TMP students and faculty
Contact: Yoko Urano

December 9, 2004
Special Seminar on Lean Transformation

Location: Room 1-110 (Miller Room)
Time: 4:00 pm (seminar repeated at an 8:00 pm session)
Contact: RSVP TO Professor David Hardt and specify the 4:00 pm or 8:00 pm session.
Details: Click here for more details.

December 7, 2004
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Title: ESD Research Talk
Speaker: Dr. Annalisa Weigel

Location: E40-298
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Fran Marrone

December 6, 2004
LFM-SDM Web Conference
Title: Lean in Product Development Summit

Time: 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Contact: You must RSVP to Alison McCaffree if you would like to attend.
Details: Click here for more details.

December 6, 2004
ESD.10 Student Presentations

Location:E40-380
Time: 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Details: Click here for more details.

December 6, 2004
ESD Seminar Series
Topic: Making the World Safe for Nuclear Energy
Speaker: Professor Ernest J. Moniz, Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems, Director of Energy Studies, LFEE

Location: E40-496
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Prof. Randy Kircharin
Details: Click here for more details.

Pizza will be served at 11:45 am.

December 3, 2004
CTL Friday Seminar Series
Title: The View from Washington: Transportation Issues facing Congress and the Second Bush Administration
Speaker: Jane Garvey, former FAA Administrator

Location: Stratton Student Center, Room 407 (4th Floor, W20-407)
Time: 12:00 - 2:00 pm
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Michael Hanowsky
Details: Click here for more details.

Lunch Provided by the Center for Transportation and Logistics.

December 2, 2004
Invitation to ESD Students: Input to New MIT President

Location: TPP Lounge (E40, 3rd floor)
Time: 6:15 pm
Open to: ESD Students

President Hockfield has created a student advisory board to acquaint her with MIT. ESD student Satwik Seshasai is on this board and would like to collect input from ESD students to provide a heightened and more relevant awareness of ESD to the new President.

Please come for refreshments and an informal gathering.

If you are unable to attend, please provide input to Satwik "at" mit.edu directly, or find info about upcoming forums at: http://web.mit.edu/gsc/www/initiatives/president

December 2, 2004
ORC Fall Seminar Series
Topic: TBD
Speaker: Robin Roundy, IEOR Cornell University

Location: E40-298
Time: 4:15 - 5:15 pm
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Georgia Perakis

December 1, 2004
ESD.10 Student Presentations

Location:E40-380
Time: 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Details: Click here for more details.

November 30, 2004
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Title: MIT Educational Commons
Speaker: Professor Robert Silbey, Dean of the School of Science

Location: E40-298
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Fran Marrone

November 30, 2004
ESD Thesis Defense – Christopher S. Musso
Title: Beating the System: Accelerating Commercialization of New Materials

Location: E40-496
Time: 10:30 am
Contact: Eda Daniel
Details: Click here for more details.

A draft of Chris Musso's thesis is available in Eda Daniel's office, E40-249.

November 23, 2004
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Title: Feedback from the Visiting Committee
Speaker: Daniel Hastings

Location: E40-298
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Fran Marrone

November 22, 2004
ESD Faculty-Student mixer

Location: R&D Pub in Stata Center, 4th floor - Dreyfoos Tower
Time: 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Contact: Michael G. Rogol

Free appetizers and cash bar.

Brought to you by the ESD Student Society (ESS) and the Graduate Student Council

November 19, 2004
CIPD Special Seminar Presentation
Topic: Effective Product Platform Development
Speaker: Katja Hölttä

Location: E60-275
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Contact: Susan MacPhee, 617.324.4005
Details: Click here for more details.

Lunch Provided by the Center for Innovation in Product Development.

November 19, 2004
LFM-SDM Webseminar
Topic: RFID
Speaker: Prithvi Banerjee (SDM 03), Project Manager OAT Systems

Time: 12:00 noon
Contact: Alison McAfree
Details: Click here for more details.

November 19, 2004
MIT/MITRE Research Workshop on Engineering Complex Systems

Location: Marriott Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA
Time: 8:30 am - 5:30 pm
Open to: By Invitation Only
Contact: Donna Rhodes, 617.324.0473 by October 29

Details: Click here for more details.

November 18, 2004
TPP Director's Social
Speaker: Dava Newman

Location: TPP Lounge (E40-380)
Time: 5:30 - 6:30 pm
Open to: TPP Community
Contact: Yoko Urano

November 18, 2004
ORC Fall Seminar Series
Topic: TBD
Speaker: George Nemhauser, IEOR Georgia Tech

Location: E40-298
Time: 4:15 - 5:15 pm
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Georgia Perakis

November 16, 2004
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Title: Faculty Diversity & Governance Meeting
Speakers: Lorna Gibson, Incoming Chair, MIT Faculty, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering and Rafael Bras, Current Chair, MIT Faculty, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Location: E40-298
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Fran Marrone

November 15, 2004
CTPID Community Lunch
Title: New Ideas from the Ford-MIT Alliance
Speakers: Simon Pitts, Ford Executive Director and Joseph Saleh, MIT Executive Director Ford-MIT Alliance

Location: E40-208
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm
Contact: Nancy DuVergne Smith

Lunch will be served, please RSVP to Nancy DuVergne Smith

November 15, 2004
ESD Thesis Defense – Troy Downen
Title: A Multi-Attribute Value Assessment Method for the Early Product Development Phase With Application to the Business Airplane Industry

Location: E40-298
Time: 9:00 am
Contact: Eda Daniel
Details: Click here for more details.

A draft of Troy Downen's thesis is available in Eda Daniel's office, E40-249.

November 12, 2004
ESD Social Hour

The ESD Student Society holds an every-other-Friday social hour, an informal and fun way for you to meet fellow ESD S.M. and Ph.D. students

Location: Muddy Charles Pub
Time: 5:00 pm

November 10, 2004
MIT Industry Leaders in Technology & Management Lecture
Title: A New Model in the Global Automotive Industry?
Speaker: Carlos Ghosn, President and Chief Executive Officer, Nissan Motor Company

Location: Bartos Theater - Lower Level (Bldg E51)
Time: 5:00 - 6:00 pm
Contact: Nancy DuVergne Smith
Details: Click here for more details.

Refreshments will be served after the lecture.

November 10, 2004
Lean Aerospace Initiative Weekly Research Seminar
Title: Leading Improvement Across a Complex Aerospace Enterprise
Speaker: Dick Lewis, Rolls-Royce, retired

Location: 41-218
Time: 4:15 - 5:30 pm
Contact: Juliet Perdichizzi, 617.258.7628

Light refreshments served.

November 9-10, 2004
ESD Visiting Committee

November 9, 2004 – This event has been cancelled
Lean Aerospace Initiative
Title: Employee Involvement in a Lean Enterprise as a Strategy for Business Excellence
Speaker: Ed Schaniel, Boeing Corporation

Location: Given Lounge, 35-520
Time: 4:15 - 5:30 pm
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Juliet Perdichizzi, 617.258.7628

Light refreshments will be served.

November 9, 2004
ESD Staff Luncheon
Title: ESD Visiting Committee/Staff lunch
Speaker: Daniel Hastings

ESD senior faculty to join the Visiting Committee in the Bush Room, E105.
ESD junior faculty and staff to join Dan Hastings for lunch in E40-298.

Location: Bush Room (ESD Senior Faculty) and E40-298 (ESD
Junior Faculty and Staff)
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Open to: ESD staff and other invited guests
Contact: Fran Marrone

November 8, 2004
MIT Supply Chain Management Club
Topic: U.S. Army Supply Chain Management
Speaker: General Paul J. Kern

Location: E51-149
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Open to: Entire ESD Community

Lunch is provided.

November 5, 2004
CTL Distinguished Speaker Series
Title: High Speed Rail: The Missing Link
Speaker: Governor Michael Dukakis, Distinguished Professor, Northeastern University, Former Vice Chair, Amtrak Board of Directors

Location: Twenty Chimneys, Stratton Student Center (3rd Floor: W20-306)
Time: 12:00 - 2:00 pm
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Michael Hanowsky
Details: Click here for more details.

Lunch Provided by the Center for Transportation and Logistics.

November 5, 2004
CIPD Special Seminar Presentation
Topic: What Differs between System Innovation and Component Innovation – and Does it Matter?
Speaker: Professor Chris Magee, CIPD Director

Location: E60-275
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Contact: Susan MacPhee, 617.324.4005
Details: Click here for more details.

Lunch Provided by the Center for Innovation in Product Development.

November 4, 2004
ORC Fall Seminar Series
Topic: TBD
Speaker: Pablo Parrilo, EECS MIT

Location: E40-298
Time: 4:15 - 5:15 pm
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Georgia Perakis

November 3, 2004
Lean Aerospace Initiative Weekly Research Seminar
Title: CoSysMo: Systems Engineering Cost Model
Speaker: Ricardo Valerdi, University of Southern California

Location: 41-218
Time: 4:15 - 5:30 pm
Contact: Juliet Perdichizzi, 617.258.7628
Details: Click here for more details.

Light refreshments served.

November 2, 2004
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Title: Engineering Systems Schools Meeting
Speaker: Daniel Roos

Location: E40-298
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Fran Marrone

November 1, 2004
Engineering Systems Division Fall Open House

The Technology and Policy Program and the ESD Ph.D. and S.M. programs Fall Open House.

Location: TPP Room E40-380 and ESD Room E40-208
Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 noon
Contact: For TPP contact Yoko Urano at yokou "at" mit.edu or 617.258.7295. For the ESD Ph.D./S.M. program please contact Christine Bates at cbates "at" mit.edu or 617.324.0320.

Details: Click here for more details.

November 1, 2004
ESD Seminar Series
Topic: The Topology and Dynamics of Complex Man-Made Networks
Speaker: Professor Dan Braha, New England Complex Systems Institute, Cambridge MA, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth MA

Location: E51-151
Time: Noon - 1:00 pm
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Prof. Randy Kirchain
Details: Click here for more details.

Pizza will be served.

October 26, 2004
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Title: NSF ERC Proposal Presentation
Speaker: John Hansman

Location: E40-298
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Fran Marrone

October 22, 2004
CTL Friday Seminar Series
Title: Developing Airport Infrastructure to Meet Future Demand
Speaker: Dennis Roberts, Director, Federal Aviation Administration

Location: Mezzanine Lounge, Stratton Student Center (W20-307)
Time: 12:00 - 2:00 pm
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Michael Hanowsky
Details: Click here for more details.

Lunch Provided by the Center for Transportation and Logistics

October 22, 2004
TPP Faculty Appreciation and Information Breakfast
Title: TPP updates

Location: TPP Lounge, E40-380
Time: 8:00 - 10:00 am
Open to: TPP faculty and advisors
Contact: Yoko Urano

October 21-22, 2004
2004 SDM Conference
Topic: System Engineering: "Innovative Product and System Development"

Location: Kresge Little Theater
Open to: SDM alumni
Details: Click here for more details.

October 21, 2004
ORC Fall Seminar Series
Topic: TBD
Speaker: Dimitri Bertsekas, EECS

Location: E40-298
Time: 4:15 - 5:15 pm
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Georgia Perakis

October 19, 2004
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Title: ESD Doctoral Seminar
Speakers: Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Chris Magee

Location: E40-298
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Fran Marrone

October 19, 2004
TPP Tuesday Lunch Talk Series
Title: US Government Energy R&D and the National Renewable Energy Project
Speaker: Mike Berlinksi

Location:TPP Lounge, E40-380
Time:12:30 - 1:30 pm
Open to: Current TPP students
Contact: Ned Calder, Yoko Urano

October 15, 2004
ESS Social Hour

The ESD Student Society holds an every-other-Friday social hour, an informal and fun way for you to meet fellow ESD S.M. and Ph.D. students

Location: Muddy Charles Pub
Time: 5:00 pm

October 15, 2004
CIPD Friday Seminar
Title: Product Modularity From a Total Enterprise Perspective
Speaker: Eric Rebentsch

Location: E60-225
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Contact: Susan MacPhee - 617.324.4005
Details: Click here for more details.

Lunch Provided by the Center for Innovation in Product Development.

October 15, 2004
LFM-SDM Webseminar
Topic: True Change: How Outsiders on the Inside Get things Done in Organizations
Speaker: Jan Klein, Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management

Time: 12:00 noon
Contact: Alison McCaffree
Details: Click here for more details.

October 15, 2004
Aero/Astro Conference

Location: Building 33-116
Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Jessica Marquez, or aa-conf "at" mit.edu
Details:Click here for more details.

October 14, 2004
ORC Fall Seminar Series
Topic: TBD
Speaker: Larry Wein, Stanford Business School

Location: E40-298
Time: 4:15 - 5:15 pm
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Georgia Perakis

October 13, 2004
LAI Research Seminar
Topic: Lean Principles Applied to Large Scale Biotechnology
Speaker: Robert Nicol, Director, Sequencing Operations and LFM Alum

Location: Broad Institute, 320 Charles St., Cambridge MA
Agenda:

4:15 pm Background Presentation - Atlantic Room
4:30 pm Tour - DNA Sequencing Facility
5:00 pm Discussion

Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Juliet Perdichizzi, 617.258.7628
Please Note: No open toe shoes for the lab tour

Snacks and refreshments provided.

October 12, 2004
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Title: SDM Update
Speakers: David Simchi-Levi, Tom Allen

Location: E40-298
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Contact: Fran Marrone

October 7, 2004
ORC Fall Seminar Series
Topic: TBD
Speaker: Franz Rendl, Austria

Location: E40-298
Time: 4:15 - 5:15 pm
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Georgia Perakis

October 7, 2004
Brunel Lecture Series on Complex Systems
Topic: Engineering Engineering Systems
Speaker: Thomas L. Magnanti, Dean, MIT School of Engineering

Location: Grier Room, 34-401
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Reception to follow
Contact: Beverly Kozol-Tattlebaum, 617.253.9756
Details: Click here for more details.

October 7, 2004
MIT Supply Chain Management Club
Topic: Collaborative Management of Supply and Demand
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Corsten

Location: E40-364
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Contact: scmc05 "at" mit.edu
Details: Click here for more details.

October 5, 2004
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Title: ESD Messages/Strategic Planning
Speaker: Daniel Hastings

Location: E40-298
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Contact: Fran Marrone

October 1, 2004
ESS Social Hour

The ESD Student Society holds an every-other-Friday social hour, an informal and fun way for you to meet fellow ESD S.M. and Ph.D. students

Location: Muddy Charles Pub
Time: 5:00 pm

October 1, 2004
CTL Friday Seminar Series
Title: Transit Planning in the Digital Age: Moving Bits to Move People
Speaker: Michael Schiffer, VP of Planning, Chicago Transit Authority

Location: W20-407, Stratton Student Center
Time: 12:00 - 2:00 pm
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Michael Hanowsky
Details: Click here for more detials.

Lunch Provided by the Center for Transportation and Logistics

October 1, 2004
CIPD Friday Seminar
Title: Physical Limits to Modularity
Speaker: Dan Whitney

Location: E60-225
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Contact: Susan MacPhee - 617.324.4005
Details: Click here fore more details.

Lunch Provided by the Center for Innovation in Product Development.

October 1, 2004
First workshop of IGERT multidisciplinary panel on ubiquitous computing

Location: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge
Time: 8:15 am - 4:30 pm
Open to: IGERT collaborators/students, others by invitation
Contact: Dan Hastings or Renee Robins

September 30, 2004
ORC Fall Seminar Series
Topic: TBD
Speaker: Linda Green, Columbia Business School

Location: E40-298
Time: 4:15 - 5:15 pm
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Georgia Perakis

September 28, 2004
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Title: Undergrad Presence
Speaker: Joseph Sussman

Location: E40-298
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Contact: Fran Marrone

September 27, 2004
Joseph A. Martore (1975) Excellence in Teaching Award
Deadline for submission of nominations

Details: Click here for more details.

September 24, 2004
CIPD Friday Seminar
Title: Quantitative Approaches to Assess Complexity and its Source
Speaker: Pierre-Alain Martin

Location: E60-225
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Contact: Susan MacPhee - 617.324.4005

Lunch Provided by the Center for Innovation in Product Development.

September 23, 2004
ORC Fall Seminar Series
Topic: TBD
Speaker: DuMouchel, Math Department MIT

Location: E40-298
Time: 4:15 - 5:15 pm
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Georgia Perakis

September 23, 2004
ESD Ph.D. Student Poster Session

This faculty-organized event will showcase ESD Ph.D. student research. There will be a reception afterwards to welcome new students and to congratulate those who passed the general exam.

Location: Grier Room, 34-401
Time: 3:00 - 6:30 pm
Open to: All ESD students
Contact: Eda Daniel, 617.253.1182
Details: Click here for more details.

September 23, 2004
ESD Ph.D. Student Poster Session

This faculty-organized event will showcase ESD Ph.D. student research. There will be a reception afterwards to welcome new students and to congratulate those who passed the general exam.

Location: Grier Room, 34-401
Time: 3:00 - 6:30 pm
Open to: All ESD students
Contact: Eda Daniel, 617.253.1182
Details: Click here for more details.

September 23, 2004
ORC Fall Seminar Series
Topic: TBD
Speaker: DuMouchel, Math Department MIT

Location: E40-298
Time: 4:15 - 5:15 pm
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Georgia Perakis

September 21, 2004
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Title: New ESD Faculty Slots
Speaker: Daniel Hastings

Location: E40-298
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Contact: Fran Marrone

September 20, 2004
Infrastructure Systems Seminar,
Speakers – John Hansman and Daniel Roos

Location: E40-298
Time: 3:00 - 5:00 pm

Open to: ESD Faculty and advanced Ph.D. students

September 20, 2004
Technology Executives Lecture Series
Title: Optimizing Value from R&T
Speaker: Hervé J. Gallaire, Chief Technology Officer and President, Xerox Innovation Group

Location: Bartos Theater, Lower Level, Bldg. E15
Time: 5:00 pm
Sponsored by the Office of Corporate Relations

Refreshments will be served after the lecture.

September 17, 2004
ESS Social Hour

The ESD Student Society holds an every-other-Friday social hour, an informal and fun way for you to meet fellow ESD S.M. and Ph.D. students

Location: Muddy Charles Pub
Time: 5:00 pm

September 17, 2004
CTL Friday Seminar Series
Title: Insight into US Federal Transportation Policy
Speaker: Congressman Michael Capuano, Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

Location: Mezzanine Lounge, Stratton Student Center (W20-307)
Time: 12:00 - 2:00 pm
Contact: Michael Hanowsky
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Details: Click here for more details.

Lunch Provided by the Center for Transportation and Logistics.

September 17, 2004
CIPD Seminar Series
Topic: Fuzzy Pareto Frontiers in the Multidisciplinary Analysis of System Architectures, Insertion of New Technologies into Systems under Uncertainty
Speaker: Rudy Smaling

Location: E60-225
Time: 12:00 noon
Contact: Susan Macphee
Details: Click here for more details.

Lunch is provided.

September 16, 2004
ORC Fall Seminar Series
Topic: TBD
Speaker: Bob Smith, IEOR University of Michigan

Location: E40-298
Time: 4:15 - 5:15 pm
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Georgia Perakis

September 15, 2004
Lean Aerospace Initiative Weekly Research Seminar
Title: The Battle of Architectures: Lean Enterprises vs. Mass Enterprises
Speaker: Ted Piepenbrock

Location: 33-116
Time: 4:15 - 5:30 pm
Contact: Juliet