Professor
de Weck Named ESD Associate Director
June
28, 2008
Olivier
L. de Weck, Associate Professor of
Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering
Systems, has been named Associate
Director of MIT's Engineering Systems
Division (ESD). The appointment is
effective July 1, 2008.
Professor
de Weck holds a dipl. Ing. in industrial
engineering from ETH Zurich (1993)
and an S.M. (1999) and a Ph.D. (2001)
in aerospace systems engineering from
MIT. Before joining MIT he was a liaison
engineer and later engineering program
manager on the Swiss F/A-18 aircraft
program at McDonnell Douglas (1993-1997).
"I'm
very pleased that Oli has agreed to
become ESD's Associate Director,"
said ESD Director Professor Yossi
Sheffi. "He brings to the table
deep experience in engineering systems,
with areas of expertise that include
systems engineering for changeability,
commonality and life-cycle optimality."
According to Professor Sheffi, Professor
de Weck "will not only be involved
in the day-to-day management of the
Division, but will help to define
the intellectual footprint of ESD."
Prof.
de Weck’s research interests,
teaching emphasis and professional
experience are mainly in Systems Engineering
for Changeability and Commonality,
and Space Systems Design for Exploration
and Logistics. He works with large-scale
systems that exhibit high levels of
technological, human and organizational
complexity. His contributions include
time-expanded decision networks that
provide a methodology for designing
long-lived, evolvable complex systems.
Professor
de Weck is an Associate Fellow of
AIAA, winner of the 2006
Frank E. Perkins award for excellence
in graduate advising, and recipient
of the 2007
AIAA MDO TC outstanding service award.
In June 2008, he and co-author Dr.
Rudolf Smaling won the 2007
Best Paper Award for the journal
Systems Engineering.
Professor
de Weck held the Robert
Noyce Career Development Professorship
from 2002–2005, and co-advised
the best MIT System Design and Management
thesis in 2005. He has more than 100
journal and conference publications
in the area of systems engineering
and space systems design, and has
received research funding from GM,
NASA, BP, JPL, ArvinMeritor, DARPA/AFRL
and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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