Prof. Olivier de Weck

Receives Promotion

June 16, 2006

ESD faculty member Olivier L. de Weck has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor without Tenure, effective July 1, 2006.

Prof. de Weck, currently Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems, recently won the Frank E. Perkins Award for excellence in advising and mentoring graduate students. He has also won two best paper awards at the 2004 Systems Engineering Conference of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) for research on system classification and iso-performance. His research has been funded by GM, NASA, BP, JPL, ArvinMeritor, DARPA/AFRL and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Prof. de Weck is a senior member of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, as well as a member of The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS), the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), and Sigma Xi. He was the General Chair for the 2nd AIAA MDO Specialist Conference in May 2006. He holds degrees in industrial engineering from ETH Zurich (1993), and in aerospace systems engineering from MIT (S.M.1999, Ph.D. 2001).