Professor
Richard Larson
to
lead new Center for Engineering Systems
Fundamentals in MIT’s Engineering
Systems Division
August
25, 2005
Prof.
Daniel Hastings, Director or MIT’s
Engineering Systems Division (ESD),
has announced the formation of the
Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals
(CESF), effective September 1, 2005.
The major focus of CESF will be research
on the fundamentals and cross-cutting
issues in engineering systems. The
Center will be led by Prof. Richard
Larson and report to ESD in MIT’s
School of Engineering.
The
Center will be responsible for the
following:
-
developing a climate to discuss
Engineering Systems fundamentals
(seminars etc)
-
developing and deepening relations
with the Operations Research Center
-
working with faculty to bring in
resources for the CESF
-
sponsoring a book series
-
sponsoring a biannual international
symposium on Engineering Systems
fundamentals
CESF
will be housed in E40 and nearby buildings.
Hastings
noted that the need for such a center
was identified in the ESD
Strategic Plan and endorsed by
the ESD faculty.
Hastings
also announced that the Center
for Innovation in Product Development
(CIPD) will be merged with CESF. CESF
resources will include CIPD assets
and some seed funding from ESD. Prof.
Chris Magee, who has served so
ably as the director of CIPD, will
continue as a faculty member in ESD
and CESF.
Over
the coming academic year, Prof. Larson
will lead a faculty group to develop
the resources associated with the
CESF and its relationship with the
Center to the Center
of Technology, Policy and Industrial
Development (CTPID) as well as
the Center
for Transportation and Logistics
(CTL).
On
September 20, 2005, Prof. Larson delivered
a presentation entitled "The
Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals:
The Beginnings." To view it,
please click here.
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