LAI
Book wins IAA Award
Book
Co-authored by Lean Aerospace Initiative
Team Wins International Engineering
Sciences Award
November
7, 2003
Lean
Enterprise Value: Insights from MIT’s
Lean Aerospace Initiative (Palgrave,
2002) was recently awarded the 2003
“Engineering Sciences Book Award”
by the International
Academy of Astronautics (IAA).
Professor
Earll Murman, the book’s
lead author, received the award in
a ceremony in Bremen, Germany on September
28, 2003. Professor Murman served
as LAI’s MIT director (1995-2002)
and was Head of the Department
of Aeronautics and Astronautics
(1990-96).
The
book was written by a team of MIT
scholars affiliated with the Engineering
Systems Division and its Center
for Technology, Policy and Industrial
Development, which is home to
the Lean
Aerospace Initiative. The co-authors
were:
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Thomas J. Alllen,
Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow,
Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management,
Professor of Engineering Systems,
and Co-Director, LFM and SDM Programs;
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Kirkor Bozdogan, CTPID Principal
Research Associate;
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Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld,
Executive Director, Engineering
Systems Learning Center and Senior
Research Scientist, Sloan School
of Management;
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Earll M. Murman, Ford Professor
of Engineering and Professor of
Aeronautics, Astronautics, and Engineering
Systems;
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Deborah Nightingale,
Professor of the Practice of Aeronautics
and Astronautics and Engineering
Systems;
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Eric Rebentisch, CTPID Research
Associate;
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Tom Shields, CTPID Research Associate;
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Sheila Widnall,
Institute Professor and Professor
of Aeronautics, Astronautics, and
Engineering Systems.
Other
co-authors formerly affiliated with
MIT are Hugh McManus, Fred Stahl,
Myles Walton, Joyce Warmkessel, and
Stanley Weiss.
The
Lean Aerospace Initiative is an MIT-based
partnership between US aerospace companies,
many government agencies led by the
US Air Force, national labor organizations
and MIT to help accelerate the transformation
of the greater US aerospace enterprise
through research and implementation
employing lean principles and practices.
The
International Academy of Astronautics
was founded in Stockholm in 1960.
Since that time, IAA has brought together
the world's foremost experts in the
disciplines of astronautics on a regular
basis to recognize the accomplishments
of their peers, explore and discuss
cutting-edge issues in space research
and technology, and provide direction
and guidance in the non-military uses
of space and the ongoing exploration
of the solar system.
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