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August-December 2008
For January - July 2008 click here


December 9, 2008
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Topic: Dov Dori will talk about current research on applying an OPM model-based approach to integrating the project and product domains for better project management and product quality.

Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Location: E40-298
Open to: ESD faculty and other invited guests
Contact: Jennifer Kratochwill


December 4, 2008
Brunel Lecture Series on Complex Systems
Speaker: Shai Agassi, Founder and CEO of Better Place

Time: 3:30 - 5-15 pm
Location: E51-115 (Wong Auditorium)
Details: Click here for more details.

The Brunel Lecture is sponsored by the MIT Engineering Systems Division. Participating MIT organizations include the Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership, the Sloan Sustainability Speaker Series, the MIT-Israel Program, and MIT Hillel


December 4, 2008
ESD Dissertation Defense – Jijun Lin
Title: Exploring Flexible Strategies in Engineering Systems Using Screening
Models – Applications to Offshore Petroleum Projects

Time: 1:00 pm
Location: E51-361
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


November 25, 2008
ESD Faculty and Teaching Staff Luncheon
Topic: Subra Suresh will speak about 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 24, 2008
What to learn more about "Change Management?

Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Location: E51-395
Details: Click here to download event flyer.

Co-sponsored by System Design and Management and MIT-Sloan SABC.


November 14, 2008
LFM SDM Web Seminar
Title: The Economics of GREEN in the Automotive Industry
Speaker: Camilla Denison (LFM 92), President, Champion Laboratories

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.


November 12, 2008
ES Poster Session - featuring the research of ESD's PhD Students

The students of the Engineering Systems Student Society cordially invite you to their 6th annual Poster Session.

The Poster Session is a gallery-style presentation of the research conducted by ESD's PhD Students and their colleagues. It is also an excellent way to get to know, or be reacquainted with, the research currently being done within the doctoral program. So, if you are

  • interested in becoming an ES doctoral student,
  • interested in meeting the current student researchers,
  • or want to survey what is happening within the program now, then come!

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, 2008Event 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, 2008Event 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.

 

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