ESD Upcoming Events

May 9, 2008
CTL Lunchtime Lectures Series
Speaker: Governor Michael Dukakis

Time: 12:00 noon - 2:00 pm
Open to: ESD Community
Location: Bush Room (10-110)
Contact: Clara Yuan

May 10, 2008
Final Presentations for MIT’s graduate course: Product Design and Development, taught in collaboration with the Rhode Island School of Design

Time: 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Location: E51-345
Open to: Entire MIT Community
Contact/RSVP: Sebastian Fixson

May 13, 2008
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Topic: Moving Towards Sustainable Materials Use: Insights from Strategic Modeling of Product Manufacture and End-of-Life
Speaker: Randolph Kirchain, Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Systems

Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Location: E40-298
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Alterra Milone
Details: Click here for more details.

May 13, 2008
Service Science, Engineering and Management (SSEM) Meeting

Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Open to: ESD Faculty and invited guests
Location: E40-208
Contact: Dick Larson

May 13, 2008
Health Care Systems Lecture Series
Title: The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution to the Healthcare Crisis
Speaker: Clayton M. Christensen, Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Time: 4:30 pm
Open to: Entire MIT Community
Location: E51-325
Contact: Alterra Milone
Details: Click here for more details.

May 14-15, 2008
MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation Conference
Topic: Demand Forecasting

Location: MIT Faculty Club
Open to: Entire MIT Community
Contact: Janet Kerrigan
Details: Click here for more details.

May 14, 2008
LAI Research Seminar
Topic: Integrating Unmanned Aircraft into the National Airspace System, An Application of Value-Focused Thinking and Enterprise Architecture
Speaker: Luke Cropsey

Time: 4:15 - 5:30 pm
Open to: ESD Community
Location: 33-206
Contact: Tara Eisner

May 14, 2008
INCOSE New England Chapter Meeting

Time: 6:00 - 8:30 pm
Location: MIT, Marlar Lounge (37-252)
Open to: Entire MIT Community and INCOSE members
Contact: Olivier L. de Weck
Details: Click here for more details.

May 16, 2008
LFM SDM Web Seminar
Topic: Capacity Planning in a Supply Chain with Option Contracts
Speaker: Professor Steve Graves, MIT Sloan School of Management

Time: 12:00 pm Eastern Standard Time, 9:00 am Pacific
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Contact: Jon Griffith
Details: Click here for more details.

May 19, 2008
ESD Dissertation Defense – Christopher Lawson
Title: Exploration of Group Decision Making in Engineering Systems: Data, Models, and Lateral Alignment

Time: 3:00 pm
Location: E40-298
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

May 20, 2008
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Topic: Introduction to the Strategic Plan Exercise
Speaker: Yossi Sheffi, Professor of Engineering Systems; Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Director, Engineering Systems Division; Director, MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics; Director and Founder, Master of Engineering in Logistics Program

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

May 22-23, 2008
CMI Cambridge-MIT Workshop on Open Innovation
Sponsored by: The Programme on Regional Innovation, The Cambridge-MIT Institute Partnership Programme; the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

Location: Newnham College, Cambridge, England
Details: Click here for more details.

June 3, 2008
SDM Information Evening

Time: 6:30 - 9:30 pm
Location: Sheraton Framingham Hotel
Open to: Prospective SDM applicants
Contact: Amy Jordan, 617.253.1055
Details: Click here for more information.

June 10, 2008
SDM Information Evening

Time: 6:30 - 9:30 pm
Location: MIT Faculty Club
Open to: Prospective SDM applicants
Contact: Amy Jordan, 617.253.1055
Details: Click here for more information.

June 10-13, 2008
Supply Chain Exec Ed @MIT
Supply Chains Driving Strategic Advantage 2008
Managing Dynamics & Innovating the Future

Location: MIT, Cambridge, MA
Details: Click here for more information.

Sponsored by: MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics and Council for Supply Chain Management Professionals

June 11-13, 2008
LFM June Workshop

June 11 – Reception – Hyatt Regency in Cambridge
June 12 – All-day combined Operating Committee Governing Board meeting
June 13 – Half-day Operating Committee session

Location: Genzyme headquarters, Cambridge , MA
Open to: By invitation
Contact: Jon Griffith

August 19, 2008
SDM Information Evening

Time: 6:30 - 9:30 pm
Location: MIT Faculty Club
Open to: Prospective SDM applicants
Contact: Amy Jordan, 617.253.1055
Details: Click here for more information.

September 16, 2008
SDM Information Evening

Time: 6:30 - 9:30 pm
Location: Boston Marriott Burlington
Open to: Prospective SDM applicants
Contact: Amy Jordan, 617.253.1055
Details: Click here for more information.

September 23, 2008
LFM Midstream Review

Location: MIT Media Lab
Open to: LFM community
Contact: Jon Griffith

September 24, 2008
LFM Operating Committee meeting

Open to: LFM Community
Location: TBD
Contact: Jon Griffith

September 25-26, 2008
MITRE – MIT Enterprise Modeling Exchange Conference

Location: MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA (Video Teleconference to MITRE Bedford)
Contact: Dr. Leonard Wojcik, MITRE; Dr. Kirkor Bozdogan, MIT; Dr. Kenneth Hoffman, MITRE
Details: Click here for more information.

October 21, 2008
SDM Information Evening

Time: 6:30 - 9:30 pm
Location: MIT Faculty Club
Open to: Prospective SDM applicants
Contact: Amy Jordan, 617.253.1055
Details: Click here for more information.

October 30-31, 2008
CMI Cambridge-MIT Workshop on Engineering Change

Location: MIT Endicott house
Contact: Olivier de Weck

November 3-6, 2008
LFM Recruiting Week

Open to: LFM students and partner companies
Contact: Debra Woog McGinty

November 6, 2008
LFM 20th Anniversary Celebration

Presentation at the alumni conference; followed by reception at Cambridge Marriott at 7:00 p.m.

Time: 4:00 pm
Open to: LFM alumni and invited guests
Contact: Jon Griffith