Earll
Murman
Named
to Royal Swedish Academy
By
William
T.G. Litant, Communications Director,
MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Department
- October 14, 2004
Earll
M. Murman, a professor in the Department
of Aeronautics and Astronautics and
the Engineering Systems Division,
has been elected by the Royal Swedish
Academy of Engineering Sciences as
a Foreign Member of the Academy. This
honor recognizes Prof. Murman's many
years of work in systems engineering,
product development, aerodynamics,
computational fluid dynamics, and
engineering education.
An independent arena for the exchange
of knowledge, the Academy promotes
cross fertilization among industry,
academia, public administration and
is closely affiliated with a number
of organizations, most notably, the
Nobel Foundation. The Academy consists
of nearly 1,000 distinguished engineers
and economists from business and industry,
education and public administration
elected to the Academy by their peers.
An MIT professor since 1980,
Prof. Murman headed the Aero-Astro
department between 1990 and 1996.
He has also directed MIT's Project
Athena and Lean Aerospace Initiative.
Prof.. Murman has authored more than
90 papers and is co-author of
Lean Enterprise Value: Insights from
MIT's Lean Aerospace Initiative
which was awarded the International
Astronautical Academy's 2004 Engineering
Sciences Book Award.
Prior to coming to MIT, Prof. Murman
worked as a research scientist at
Flow Research Inc., NASA's Ames Research
Center, and the Boeing Scientific
Research Laboratory. He holds a B.S.A.E.,
M.A., and Ph.D, all from Princeton
University.
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