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- John Sterman was awarded an honorary doctorate at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in Lugano, Switzerland on May 12, 2012.
- AgeLab director Joseph Coughlin received an honorary doctor of science degree from the State University of New York on May 12, 2012 at SUNY Oswego.
- Maria Yang was honored with the 2012 Earll Murman Award for Excellence in Advising. This award is presented to a faculty member “who has served as an excellent advisor and mentor for undergraduates and who has had a significant impact on their personal lives and academic success.”
- MIT paper co-authored by Michael Pasqual and Olivier de Weck won a "Reviewers’ Favorite" award at ICED'11. The paper is titled "Multilayer Network Model for Analysis and Management of Change Propagation," and is based on Michael’s 2010 joint AeroAstro and TPP master’s thesis (for which he shared the 2010 TPP Best Thesis Award with Ellie Ereira). Read more about the conference and paper on the ESD website. View the paper here.
- The paper, “Requirements For Product Development Self-Assessment Tools,” co-authored by Christoph Knoblinger, Josef Oehmen, Eric Rebentisch, Warren Seering and Katharina Helten (Knoblinger and Helten are from Technical University of Munich) was awarded a Reviewers’ Choice Award at the International Conference on Engineering Design 2011 (ICED'11). The paper is based on Christoph Knoblinger’s thesis research that was conducted while he was a visiting student at the Lean Advancement Initiative (LAI).
- The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) has selected the Systems Engineering paper by Olivier de Weck, Eun Suk Suh, Michael Furst, and Kenneth Mihalyov to receive the journal’s 2010 Best Paper of the Year Award. This research grew out of a multi-year collaboration with Xerox. Read full news item on the MIT website.
- Jessika Trancik was named a 2011 PopTech Science and Public Leadership Fellow. This fellowship is designed to address the need for scientists to be collaborative and socially engaged public communicators. Read MIT News item.
- Joseph Sussman presented the talk, "Engineering Systems: Evolution of a Field of Study,” at Columbia University as part of the Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series (available for online viewing).
- Proposal from Dava Newman was among the 12 to be funded by NASA’s Human Research Program (HRP) and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI); read press release.
- Yossi Sheffi has been selected to receive the Salzberg Lifetime Award from the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University on October 6, 2011, and will present the talk “Risk and Resilience—a Look into the Future.” Read news item on the ESD website.
- Kenneth Oye is a 2011 recipient of the James A. and Ruth Levitan Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award recognizes SHASS teachers—whether professors, lecturers, or graduate teaching assistants—who have made a profound difference in the educational experience of MIT undergraduates.
- Yossi Sheffi was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Zaragoza and was presented with it by the Rector Manuel López on February 11, 2011 at the Paraninfo of the University. View photos of the ceremony online here.
- Noelle Selin received a 2011 National Science Foundation CAREER award.
- The National Academy of Engineering honored Edward Crawley with the nation’s most prestigious engineering education award: the $500,000 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education. Read news item.
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