Time:
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Location: Walker Memorial's Morss Hall (50-140)
Open to: All
Contact: Elizabeth
Milnes
Light
refreshments will be served.
November
6, 2008
LFM 20th Anniversary Celebration Reception
Time:
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Location: Cambridge Marriott
Open to: Members of the LFM community and invited guests
Contact: Jon
Griffith, 617.253.3799
November
6, 2008
LFM 20th Anniversary Celebration
Title: LFM: Past, Present and Future – A Panel Discussion
Time:
4:15 pm
Location: Wong Auditorium
Open to: All
Contact: Jon
Griffith, 617.253.3799
November
4, 2008
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Topic: Yossi Sheffi will give the presentation he will
give to the Visiting Committee
Time:
12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Location: E40-298
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Jennifer Kratochwill
November
3-6, 2008
LFM Recruiting Week
Open
to: LFM students and partner companies
Contact: Debra Woog McGinty
October
31, 2008
LFM SDM Web Seminar
Title: Design Thinking: Gaining Value from Customer-Focused
Design
Speaker: Sara Beckman, Senior Lecturer, University of
California at Berkeley, Haas School of Business
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.
October
30-31, 2008
CMI Cambridge-MIT Workshop on Engineering Change
Location:
MIT Endicott house
Contact: Olivier
de Weck
Details: Click
here for more details.
October
28, 2008
ESD Senior Faculty Meeting
Time:
12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Location: E40-298
Open to: ESD senior faculty
Contact: Jennifer Kratochwill
October
27, 2008
MIT Supply Chain Management Club presents: "The Supply
Chain Manager as Global Economist"
Mr.
David Bovet, Partner, Norbridge Inc., will talk about
how thinking like a Global Economist helps guide decisions
for manufacturing, sourcing, pricing and moving products
in the face of plummeting US dollar, week global economy
and soaring fuel prices.
Time:
5:00 - 6:00 pm
Location: E40-364 (MLOG Lab)
October
26-30, 2008 – Event
of interest to the ESD community
Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) Boston
Location:
Hynes Convention Center – Boston, MA
Details: Click
here for more details.
ESC
is offering engineering students a free pass to the exhibits.
To register for the pass, visit here
and use Priority Code: STUPASS
October
23-24, 2008
MIT Conference on Systems Thinking
Systems Thinking for Contemporary Challenges
Location:
October 23 – Broad Auditorium; October 24 –
Bartos Theater
Open to: All (Preregistration requested by October 9)
Sponsor: MIT System Design and Management Program
Contact: Lois
Slavin, 617.253.0812
Details: Click
here for more details.
October
22-24, 2008
KEE Sharing Success Stories of Lean Enterprise Change
(Case Studies)
LAI Knowledge Exchange Event
Host:
Pratt & Whitney: UTC
Location: Pratt & Whitney: UTC, 400 Main Street, East
Hartford, CT
Contact: Tara
L. Eisner, 617.253.2537
Details: Click
here for more details.
October
23, 2008
International Students - The Recruiting Process
Danielle Guichard-Ashbrook, Director & Associate Dean
for International Students - MIT
This
workshop is designed to educate international students
about the
complexities and nuances of the domestic recruiting process.
It will
focus on the options international students have and the
process they
must follow to conduct an efficient and effective recruiting
strategy.
Time:11:30
am - 1:00 pm
Location: Building E40, Room 364
Contact/RSVP: Click
here to RSVP.
Lunch
will be provided
October
23, 2008
CBI Roundtable: Improving Drug Safety: Critical Elements
of a “Learning Healthcare System”
Presented in collaboration with ESD and the New England
Healthcare Institute (NEHI)
Location:
Royal Sonesta Hotel (Cambridge, MA)
Details: Click
here for more details. (.pdf)
October
21, 2008
SDM Information Evening
Time:
6:30 - 9:30 pm
Location: MIT Faculty Club
Open to: Prospective SDM applicants
Contact: Dave
Schultz, 617.253.1055
Details: Click
here for more details.
October
21, 2008
SEAri Research Summit
Location:
MIT
Open to: SEAri Sponsors and Invited Systems Leadership
Contact: Dr.
Donna H. Rhodes
Details: Click
here for more details.
October
20, 2008
Health Care Systems Lecture Series
Title: The Value of Information Integration in Healthcare
Speaker: Daniel S. Pelino, General Manager Global Healthcare
& Life Sciences Industry IBM Corporation
Time:
4:30 pm
Open to: Entire MIT Community
Location: 32-155
Contact: Jennifer
Kratochwill
October
17, 2008
To Keep or Not To Keep the Electoral College: New Approaches
to Electoral Reform
Time:
8:30 am - 5:30 pm
Location: Bartos Theater
Details: Click
here for more details.
Conference
organized by Sloan School of Management and CESF.
October
15-16, 2008
The MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation fall meeting
Title: Trends and Challenges in Supply Chains
Location:
MIT Faculty Club
Open to: All LFM, SDM, and FSCI partners
Details: Click
here for more details.
October
14, 2008
International Center for Air Transportation Seminar
Professor
Guy Boy, Director, European Institute of Cognitive Science
and Engineering (EURISCO). This talk will focus on the
concept of authority in the context of increasingly complex
collaborative systems.
Time:
4:00 pm
Location: 33-206
October
14, 2008
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Speaker: Gigi Hirsch, Executive Director of the Center
for Biomedical Innovation
Time:
12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Location: E40-298
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Jennifer
Kratochwill
October
7, 2008
SDM Information Evening
Time:
6:30 - 9:30 pm
Location: Boston Marriott Burlington
Open to: Prospective SDM applicants
Contact: Dave
Schultz, 617.253.1055
Details: Click
here for more details.
October
7, 2008
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Topics: Dan Roos:
Agenda and Planning for the 2009 Engineering Systems Symposium
Olivier de
Weck: Research Vignette - Managing Engineering Change
- CMI Workshop Oct 2008
Time:
12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Location: E40-298
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Jennifer
Kratochwill
Download
Olivier de Weck presentation here
(.ppt)
Download Dan Roos presentation here
(.ppt)
October
5-7, 2008 – Event
of Interest to the ESD Community
Negotiating the Ideal Faculty Position
A Workshop for Women in Science & Engineering
Sponsored by: Rice University
Location:
Rice University, Houston, TX
Details: Click
here for more details.
September
30, 2008
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Topic: Prof.
Yossi Sheffi talks about the agenda for the visiting
committee
Time:
12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Location: E40-298
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Jennifer
Kratochwill
Download
Yossi Sheffi presenation here
(.ppt)
September
29, 2008
Research Presentation
Title: Transport Energy Modeling and Policy Assessment
with a CGE framework
Speaker: Shuwei Zhang, Ph.D. in Energy Economics (2007),
Tsinghua University
Time:
4:00 - 5:30 pm
Location: E40-298
Contact: Mort Webster
September
27-28, 2008
Energy Regatta
Location:
MIT Sailing Pavilion
Details: Click
here for more details.
September
26, 2008
Kick-off for the Energy Regatta, co-hosted with the MIT
Energy Club
Presentations
followed by a networking reception.
Time:
5:30 pm
Location: Bush Room (10-105)
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 details.
September
25, 2008
Xerox Information Session at MIT
Location:
Building 56 - Room #114
Time: 6:00 - 7:30 pm
September
25, 2008
Roger Bloemen, VP Global Supply Chain for Solutia: Aligning
Global Supply Chain Strategies
MIT-Supply
Chain Club presents Roger Bloemen, VP Global Supply Chain
for Solutia. Bloemen and his senior supply chain staff
will present how they have aligned their supply chain
operations with their corporate strategies. After discussing
how MIT-CTL has helped them with this process, each of
the Regional Leads (Asia, Europe, and Americas) will discuss
how this process was adopted and adapted by their specific
regions. Food will be provided.
Time:
4:00 pm
Location: E40-364
September
24, 2008
LFM Operating Committee meeting
Open
to: LFM Community
Location: TBD
Contact: Jon
Griffith
September
23, 2008
LFM Midstream Review
Location:
MIT Media Lab
Open to: LFM community
Contact: Jon
Griffith
September
23, 2008
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Topic: Eric
von Hippel will provide an update on his research;
Paulo Ferrao presented an update on his research
Time:
12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Location: E40-298
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Jennifer
Kratochwill
Download
Paulo Ferrao presentation here
(.ppt)
September
18, 2008
SDM Sponsored Seminar
Peter Guile CEO of E-One, Inc.
Time:
6:00 pm
Location: E51-335
Contact: Jorge E. Amador
Details: Click
here for details (.pdf)
September
16, 2008
Carbo-Loading Feast for Climate Ride 2008
Support
a team of ESD/MIT students and staff who are riding their
bikes from NYC to Washington, DC, on the Climate Ride
2008. The team is fundraising for two climate policy and
education NGOs (Face the Nation and Cool Planet/Clean
Air). The riders will be having a fundraiser with free
food and a raffle contest (prizes include a 1-week cabin
stay in Maine and $75 ZipCar gift certificates). Food
from Toscanini's, Bertucci's, Royal East and more. Donation
requested at the door.
Time:
5:30 - 8:00 pm
:Location: Muddy Charles Pub
September
16, 2008
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Topic: Richard
Larson and Jim
Utterback will give updates on their research
Time:
12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Location: E40-298
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Jennifer
Kratochwill
Download
Richard Larson presentation here
(.ppt)
Download Jim Utterback presentation here
(.pdf)
September
9, 2008
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Topic:
The new ESD Human-Systems Engineering track
Speaker: Missy
Cummings
Time:
12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Location: E40-298
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Jennifer
Kratochwill
Download
presentation here
(.ppt)
September
8, 2008
Health Care Systems Lecture Series
Title: Who killed health care? And the consumer –driven
cure
Speaker: Regina
E. Herzlinger, Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business
Administration at the Harvard Business School
Who
killed health care? And the consumer –driven cure.
How consumer –driven health care reform will support
the technology personalized medicine
Time: 4:30 pm
Open to: Entire MIT Community
Location: E51-395
Contact: Jennifer
Kratochwill
September
6, 2008
SDM Information Event
Location:
MIT Faculty Club
Time: 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Open to: Prospective SDM applicants
Contact: Dave
Schultz, 617.452.1167
Detials: Click
here for more details.
September
2, 2008
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Topic: Outline semester activities; where we are and where
we are going
Speaker: Yossi
Sheffi
Time:
12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Location: E40-298
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Jennifer
Kratochwill
Download
presentation here.
August
19, 2008
SDM Information Evening
Time:
6:30 - 9:30 pm
Location: MIT Faculty Club
Open to: Prospective SDM applicants
Contact: Dave
Schultz, 617.253.1055
Details: Click
here for more details.
August
19, 2008
ESD Dissertation Defense – Pedzi Makumbe
Title: Globally Distributed Product Development: Role
of Complexity in the What, Where and How
Time:
2:00 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
August
7, 2008
MIT-CTL Talk
Title: Supply Chains in Internet Markets: Treasure Troves
or Wastelands?
Speaker: Dr. Elliot Rabinovich
Associate Professor and Dean’s Council of 100 Distinguished
Scholar
Supply Chain Management Department
W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University
Time:
9:00 - 10:00 am
Location: E40-298
Open to: Entire ESD Community
Details: Click here
for more details.