Prof.
Eppinger
named
Distinguished Fellow by Product and
Operations Management Society
May
26, 2006
The Product
and Operations Management Society
recently named Professor Steven Eppinger
a Distinguished Fellow. Following
is the text of the citation:
On behalf of the Product Innovation
& Technology Management College
of the Production and Operations Management
Society, it is the Award Committee's
great pleasure to announce the award
of Distinguished Fellow to Steven
D. Eppinger.
During
his career, Professor Eppinger has
been crucial in making new product
development a distinct discipline
in management science through numerous
seminal contributions spanning both
research and pedagogy. He has
also acted as a tremendous ambassador
for our field to the realm of industry,
continuously refining industrial practice
through his and his students' labors.
Because
summarizing all of Professor Eppinger's
research contributions is prohibitive,
we will restrict ourselves to detailing
only his two most significant contributions
to the field of New Product Development.
In particular, Professor Eppinger
has, along with his co-authors, refined
and dramatically improved analytical
methods to determine component modularity,
which they then used to significantly
improve the process for designing
product architecture. With another
group of co-authors, he pioneered
the use of design structure matrices
to analyze organizational structure
and communications in a product development
setting. Both of these contributions
have had profound impact on new product
development methodology.
In
the field of pedagogy, Professor Eppinger
has been no less active. Along
with Karl Ulrich, he published the
seminal textbook "Product Design
and Development," which integrated
the development of management, design,
and engineering skills in a product
development setting. He assisted
in founding the System Design and
Management program, of which he was
co-director from 2001-2003, with the
goal of creating industry leaders
with sufficient leadership, management,
and technical skills to successfully
design products of ever-increasing
complexity.
It
is also rumored, that he has invented
a method of successfully cooking a
pizza on an outdoor grill.
For his important and continued contributions
to establishing and developing the
field, the 2006 Award of Distinguished
Fellow of the POMS College of Product
Innovation & Technology Management
is conferred upon Steven D. Eppinger,
General Motors Leaders for Manufacturing
Professor of Management Science in
the Sloan School of Management at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The
Committee consisted of:
Edward G. Anderson Jr., University
of Texas McCombs School of Business,
Chair
Janice Carillo, University of Florida
Warrington College of Business
Christian Terwiesch, University of
Pennsylvania Wharton School
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