| Daniel
Roos
Japan Steel Industry Professor of Engineering
Systems and Civil
and Environmental Engineering
Director, MIT
Portugal Program
Founding Director, MIT ESD
Dr. Daniel Roos, Japan Steel
Industry Professor of Engineering Systems and Civil and
Environmental Engineering, currently serves as Director
of the MIT Portugal Program, which is a five-year, $40 million
initiative focusing on engineering systems. The program
involves over 40 MIT faculty from all five schools at MIT.
Dr. Roos was the Founding Director
of MIT’s Engineering Systems Division (ESD) from 1998–2004
and serves as Chair of the Engineering Systems University
Council, an organization of universities with Engineering
Systems programs.
Previous MIT responsibilities
for Dr. Roos include serving as Director of the MIT Center
for Transportation Studies, and Director of the MIT Center
for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development. Dr. Roos
also served as Special Assistant to the MIT Chancellor and
Provost, helping to form large-scale industrial and global
partnerships. He had a leadership role in partnerships with
Ford, Merrill Lynch, and Cambridge University in the U.K.
Dr. Roos was Founding Director
of the International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP) and currently
serves as Chair of the IMVP Advisory Board. He is co-author
of The Machine that Changed the World, which has
been published in 11 languages and has sold over 600,000
copies. Dr. Roos received the Shingo Prize for Excellence
in Manufacturing Research and the Frank M. Masters Transportation
Engineering Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers
"for his 25 year professional career in directing a
series of highly innovative research projects of great relevance
in the advancement of urban transportation.”
Dr. Roos has performed extensive
consulting assignments around the world for government and
industry. He served for 11 years as consultant to the World
Economic Forum helping to organize and run the annual Auto
Governors Meeting at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting
in Davos Switzerland. The Governors meeting is attended
by 30 automotive CEOs.
Dr. Roos has chaired and served
on numerous committees of the National Research Council
including chairing the first National Academy study of intelligent
transportation systems, as National Lecturer with the Association
of Computing Machinery; and as an officer with the Transportation
Research Board, Operations Research Society of America,
American Society of Civil Engineers, ITS America, and Council
of University Transportation Centers.
Updated June 2007
News and announcements:
Books
Published by Daniel Roos
Daniel
Roos interviewed about auto industry on "Marketplace"
(Marketplace (American Public Media) - July 10, 2009)
Daniel
Roos quoted in Washington Post article about auto industry
(June 7, 2009)
NPR's
On Point features Prof. Daniel Roos on Economics of Fuel
Economy (August 26, 2005)
Establishing
Leadership in the Emerging Field of Engineering Systems
(October 8, 2004)
Professor
Daniel Roos Delivers 2004 Miller Lecture (June 9, 2004)
Building
the Engineering Systems Division, an
interview with Daniel Roos
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