ESD Event Archives

August-December 2006
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December 19, 2006
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Topic: Plans for the offsite
Speaker: Joel Moses, Institute Professor; Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Systems; Acting Director, Engineering Systems Division; Acting Director, Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development

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

December 15, 2006
ESD Holiday Brunch

Location: E40-298
Time: 9:30 - 11:30 am
Open to: Entire ESD community
Contact: Ann Tremelling

December 14, 2006
IBM-MIT/ESD Innovation Lecture Series
Title: Engineering Systems Solutions to Real World Challenges in Healthcare
Speakers: Daniel Z. Aronzon, M.D., F.A.A.P., President and CEO, Vassar Brothers Medical Center; Nicholas Christiano, Jr., Vice President and ClO of Health Quest; Stephen A. Katz, MB. Ch.B., Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice-President of Medical Affairs at Vassar Brothers Medical Center
Moderator: Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Visiting Professor of Engineering Systems and VP, Technical Strategy and Innovation, IBM

Location: MIT, E51-345, Cambridge, MA
Time: 4:00 pm, with reception to follow
Open to: Entire MIT Community
Contact: Lois Slavin
Details: Click here for more details.

December 12, 2006
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Topic: ESD faculty and the LFM internship
Speaker: Don Rosenfield, Director, Leaders For Manufacturing Fellows Program; Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management

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

December 7, 2006
MLOG Presentation by Accenture

Time: 4:30 pm
Location: E52-175
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact/Register*: Heather Crawford

*You must sign up to attend

December 6-7, 2006
2006 MIT Manufacturing Conference:The Impact of Globalization on New Product Development and Manufacturing: Imperatives for Success

Location: MIT, Wong Auditorium
Contact: Charles Hugo
Details: Click here for more details.

Sponsored by: MIT Industrial Liaison Program, MIT Leaders for Manufacturing Program, MIT System Design and Management Program

December 5, 2006
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Topic: Dean of Engineering Search
Speakers: Four members of the Search Committee:
Steve Eppinger, General Motors LFM Professor of Management Science and Engineering Systems; Deputy Dean, MIT Sloan School of Management
Dave Hardt, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Systems
Dava Newman, Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow; Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems; Director, Technology and Policy Program; Harvard-MIT Health, Sciences and Technology and
Sheila Widnall, Institute Professor; Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems

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

December 4 and 6, 2006
Term Project Presentations of ESD.10, "Introduction to Technology and Policy"

Location: E40-380
Time: 2:30 - 4:30 (both on the 4th and the 6th)
Open to: ESD Community
Contact: Annalisa Weigel
Details: Click here for more details.

Refreshments will be provided.

December 1, 2006
Title: Informal Conversation with Professor Thomas P. Hughes

Location: E40-298
Time: 12:00 noon
Open to: ESD Faculty
Contact: Beverly Kozol-Tattlebaum
Details: Click here for more details.

November 30, 2006
Third Annual MIT/MITRE Research Symposium
This year's event will provide one year progress highlights of the four joint MIT/MITRE research projects funded by MITRE Corporation. The four projects are Enterprise Dynamics & Modeling; Social Contexts of Enterprise Systems Engineering; Real Options in Investment; and Real Options and Ilities. The event will also feature presentations on initiatives within MIT Engineering Systems Division and MITRE Corporation.

Attendees will include leading professionals from MITRE; MIT faculty, researchers, and doctoral students; and several invited participants.

There is no cost to attend.

Location: MITRE Center in Bedford, MA
Time: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Contact/Register: Donna Rhodes

A detailed agenda and directions to the workshop will be sent prior to the event.

November 29, 2006
Title: NIST and the American Competitiveness Initiative
Speaker: Dr. William Jeffrey, Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology , B.Sc. Physics, MIT, 1982

Location: E51-395
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm (Pizza at 11:45 am)
Open to: Entire MIT Community
Contact: Annalisa Weigel
Details: Click here for more details.

November 28, 2006
ESD Seminar
Title: Report on NSF Workshop on Complex Engineered Systems
Speaker: Prof. William Rouse

Time: 4:00 - 5:30 PM
Location: E40-298
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Daniel Roos, Japan Steel Industry Professor of Engineering Systems and Civil and Environmental Engineering

November 28, 2006
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Topic: Task Force on the Educational Commons
Speaker: Daniel Hastings, Ph.D., Professor of Engineering Systems and Aeronautics and Astronautics; Dean, Undergraduate Education; DUE faculty and staff

Click here to download Prof. Hastings' presentation.

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

November 27, 2006
ESD Dissertation Defense – Carlos Martinez-Vela
Title: The Duality of Innovation: Implications for University-Industry Interactions and Innovation Policy

Location: E40-298
Time: 9:00 am
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Elizabeth Milnes
Details: Click here for more details.

The abstract can be found under details and a draft of the dissertation is available in E40-249

November 21, 2006
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Title: Recap of the ESD Visiting Committee comments to the MIT administration
Speaker: Joel Moses, Institute Professor; Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Systems; Acting Director, Engineering Systems Division; Acting Director, Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development

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

November 17, 2006
Seminar
Title: Generation Matters: An Integration of Cohort Analysis & Travel Demand Modeling
Speaker: Dr. Sarah Bush, Assistant Professor, Southern Utah University

Location: 1-242
Time: 3:00 pm
Contact: Leanne Russell
Details: Click here for more details.

Sponsored by: MIT Intelligent Transportation Systems Laboratory, MIT Age Lab, and the New England University Transportation Center

November 14, 2006
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
No meeting

November 13, 2006
LFM ProSeminar
Speaker: Tim Cawley, Senior Vice President of Global Logistics & Fulfillment, Integrated Supply Chain for Motorola

Location: E51-315
Time: 4:15 pm
Contact: Grace C. Tomlin
Details: Click here for more details.

November 13, 2006
Technology and Policy Program Open House and Information Session

Location: MIT Campus
Time: 11:00 am - 6:00 pm
Contact: Shane Selleck
Details: Click here for more details.

November 13, 2006
ESD Ph.D. Program's Fall Open House for Prospective Ph.D. Students

Location: E40-208
Time: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Contact: esdgrad "at" mit.edu
Details: Click here for more details.

November 9, 2006
LFM-SDM Industry-Faculty Research Forum

Location: MIT Faculty Club
Contact: Alison McCaffree
Details: Click here for more details.

November 8, 2006
MLOG Presentation
Title: Dade Behring

Speaker: Salil Pande
Time: 5:30 pm
Location: E51-145
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact/Register*: Heather Crawford

*You must sign up to attend

November 7, 2006
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Title: Strategic Engineering: Designing Systems for an Uncertain Future
Speaker: Olivier L. de Weck, Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems

Increasingly, complex systems and products have to be designed such that they can easily be changed or reconfigured over time to adapt to changing needs and requirements and to avoid lock-in. Architectural lock-in is known as a phenomenon where better technologies or architectures are known to exist, but sub-optimal systems continue to be operated due to high switching costs. In order to avoid lock-in, systems can be designed with embedded flexibility to lower future switching costs and optimize performance and cost under uncertainty. This talk will present principles, methods and tools that are being developed for analyzing change propagation, identifying real options and pinpointing where and how to embed flexibility during system design to promote evolution over time.

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

November 6, 2006
LFM Proseminar
Topic: Challenges that Apple faces in manufacturing logistics for a global phenomenon – the iPod
Speakers: Duco Pasmooij, Director of Global Supply Management for iPod Mechanicals and Aaron Raphel, iPod Global Supply Manager (LFM 2005)

Location: E51-315
Time: 4:15 pm
Open to: ESD Community
Contact: Grace Tomlin

November 3, 2006
The Fall 2006 Hoyt C. Hottel Lecture in Chemical Engineering
Title: Energy Security… What Does It Take?
Speaker: John Hofmeister, President, Shell Oil Company

Location: Edgerton Hall (34-101)
Time: 4:00 pm (Refreshments will be served at 3:30 pm)
Contact: Marie Tangney
Details: Click here for more details.

There will be a live webcast of the event – for more information, go to: http://web.mit.edu/cheme/news/hottel.html

November 1, 2006
LFM Information Evening – Innovative Leadership of Global Operations

Location: MIT Faculty Club
Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Registration: submit registration
Contact: lfm@mit.edu, 617.253.1055
Details: Click here for more details.

October 31, 2006
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Title: The Science and Practice of Supply Chain Management
Speaker: David Simchi-Levi, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems; Co-Director, LFM and SDM Programs

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

October 30, 2006
LFM Pro-Sem
Speakers: Mr. Timothy Lee, GM North America Vice President, Manufacturing, along with two LFM alumni working at GM, Michael Peterson (LFM 94) and Amy Rabatin (LFM 02)

Time: 4:15 pm
Location: E51-315
Details: Click here for more details.

October 25-27, 2006
AgeLab Symposium on New Approaches to Simulation and the Older Operator
The 4th Annual STISIM Drive User Group Meeting

Location: MIT Campus
Contact: Paula Magliozzi
Details: Click here for more details.

October 25, 2006
MLOG Workshop
Title: Cordis Presentation

Location: E40-298
Time: 5:30 pm
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Saskia Michl, MLOG Career Services Coordinator, 617.253.0118

Event will be catered.

October 25, 2006
LFEE Seminar on Energy and Environment Sponsored by the MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment
Title: Nano-Enabled Energy Conversion and Storage-A New Paradigm
Speaker: Joel Schindall, Bernard Gordon Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Associate Director, MIT Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems

Time: 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm
Location: E40-496
Open to: ESD community
Contact: Joel Schindall
Details: Click here for more details.

Bring your lunch - light refreshment will be provided.

October 24, 2006
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Topic: ESD Visiting Committee
Speaker: Joel Moses, Ph.D., Institute Professor, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Systems, Acting Director, Engineering Systems Division, Acting Director, Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development

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

October 20, 2006
MIT Supply Chain Management Club Event
Title: Innovation at Scale: The Blue Chalk Process at BP
Speaker: John Leggate, CIO and Group Vice President, Procurement and Supply Chain Management, BP

Location: E51-315, Tang Center, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142
Time: 11:30 am - 1:00 pm (lunch included)
Open to: Entire MIT Community
Contact: Saskia Michl
Details: Click here for more details.

October 19-20, 2006
2006 SDM Conference

Location: MIT Campus
Contact: Geoff Langos
Details: Click here for more details.

October 18, 2006
MLOG Workshop
Title: Intel Presentation
Speaker: Mary Murphy-Hoye, Director of IT Industry Research and IT Senior Principal Engineer, Intel

Location: E40-298
Time: 5:30 pm
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Saskia Michl, MLOG Career Services Coordinator, 617.253.0118

Event will be catered.

October 17, 2006
SDM Information Evening

Time: 6:30 - 9:30 pm
Location: MIT Faculty Club
Contact: Ted Hoppe, 617.253.1055
Details: Click here for more details.

October 17, 2006
IBM-MIT/ESD Innovation Lecture Series
Title: Engineering Systems Solutions to Real World Challenges
Speaker: Linda Sanford, IBM Senior Vice President, Enterprise On Demand, Transformation & Information Technology

Location: MIT, Building 34-101 Cambridge, MA
Time: 4:00 pm, with reception to follow
Open to: Entire MIT Community
Contact: Lois Slavin
Details: Click here for more details.

October 13, 2006
MLOG Workshop
Title: Capgemini Presentation

Location: E40-298
Time: 6:00 pm
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Saskia Michl, MLOG Career Services Coordinator, 617.253.0118
Sign-up prior to event required.

Event will be catered.

October 13, 2006
MLOG Workshop
Title: Gearing Up- Setting the Stage for a Successful Job Search
Speaker: Dan King, Career Planning and Management, Inc.

Location: E40-298
Time: 12:30 pm
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Saskia Michl, MLOG Career Services Coordinator, 617.253.0118

October 12, 2006
Brunel Lecture on Complex Systems
Title: Educating Engineers for 2020 and Beyond
Speaker: Charles M. Vest, President Emeritus and Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Location: Bartos Theatre, 20 Ames Street, Building E15, Cambridge, MA 02139
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm with reception to follow
Contact: Lois Slavin, 617.253.0812
Details: Click here for more details.

October 10, 2006
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Topics: ESD, SOE, MIT; ESD Visiting Committee
Speaker: Joel Moses, Acting Director, ESD

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

October 6, 2006
MLOG Workshop
Accenture: Case Interview Workshop Session II

Location: E51-315
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact/Register: Saskia Michl, MLOG Career Services Coordinator, 617.253.0118

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company.

October 6, 2006
MLOG Workshop
Title: The Law of 100 for Networking Workshop
Speaker: John Davies, Author of The $100,00+ Career

70% of executive jobs are landed through networking. Executives are constantly told to network, but there have not been tools or systems that help guarantee networking success. A new approach called The Law of 100 provides a structured, goal-oriented approach that is more than just a job search technique. It is a brand new way to build your career. Unlock the power of introduction-based networking to help build your executive career and land the job you want. You will learn new tools and approaches to accelerate your search and increase the effectiveness of your network.

Location: E40-298
Time: 12:30 pm
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Saskia Michl, MLOG Career Services Coordinator, 617.253.0118

October 6, 2006
ME/ESD Seminar
Title: A Decision-Based Design Approach for Integrating Enterprise Product Planning and Engineering Product Development
Speaker: Dr. Wei Chen, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University

Location: Room 3-370
Time: 2:30 pm
Open to: Entire MIT Community
Contact: Warren Seering
Details: Click here for more details.

October 3, 2006
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Title: Network models of complex systems
Speaker: Daniel E. Whitney, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, CTPID, Senior Lecturer in Engineering Systems

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

September 29, 2006
MLOG Workshop
Accenture: Case Interview Workshop Session I

Location: E51-315
Time: 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact/Register: Saskia Michl, MLOG Career Services Coordinator, 617.253.0118

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company.

September 29, 2006
MLOG Workshop
Title: Oh Behave! Practicing and Mastering Behavioral Interviews Workshop
Speaker: Jon McLaughlin

This is designed to be an intense, fun, interactive workshop on interviewing. We will focus on Behavioral Event Interviews and other common questions. Expect group work, some role playing and analysis of previously videotaped interviews. Every attempt will be made to tailor common sense advice for each participant on how they can improve and present their best selves in what is, for most, a stressful situation. Practice works!

Location: E40-298
Time: 12:30 pm
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Saskia Michl, MLOG Career Services Coordinator, 617.253.0118

September 26, 2006
2006 MIT Engineering Systems Conference
Title: Complex Systems, Complex Times: Reflections on 21st Century Enterprise

Location: Bartos Theater
Time: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Details: Click here for more details.

September 25, 2006
MLOG Workshop
Title: T3Ci Presentation
Speaker: Jared Schrieber

Jared Schrieber, MLOG alum and head of services and product management at T3Ci, will share his insights into the dynamic changes being driven by RFID adoption in the consumer goods and retail industry. T3Ci, the RFID analytics and applications company, works with P&G, Unilever, HP, J&J, PepsiCo and more than 25 other industry leaders to improve promotion execution and reduce out-of-stocks through micro-analytics. T3Ci was recently named America's most innovative business technology start-up by AMR Research and is in search of top talent to fuel its tremendous growth.

Location: E40-298
Time: 6:30 pm
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Saskia Michl, MLOG Career Services Coordinator, 617.253.0118

September 22, 2006
MLOG Workshop
Title: IBM Presentation
Speaker: Marguarette Dau and Bing Yao

MLOG Alumna, Marguarette Dau and her colleague, Bing Yao will be presenting.

Location: E40-298
Time: 12:30 pm
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Saskia Michl, MLOG Career Services Coordinator, 617.253.0118

September 19, 2006
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Topic: ESD doctoral program
Speaker: Richard de Neufville, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems

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

September 12, 2006
SDM Information Evening

Time: 6:30 - 9:30 pm
Location: Boston Marriott Burlington
Contact: Ted Hoppe, 617.253.1055
Details: Click here for more details.

September 12, 2006
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Speaker: Nancy Leveson, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems

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

September 6, 2006
TPP Reorientation

Location: E51-345
Time: 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Open to: TPP students
Contact: Sydney Miller

September 6, 2006
TPP Dinner for All Incoming and Continuing Students

Location: E51-345
Time: 6:00 - 7:30 pm
Description: TPP students, faculty and advisors
Contact: Yoko Urano