Yossi Sheffi and Sandy Pentland mentioned in article about MIT faculty who recently participated in the World Economic Forum: “MIT faculty speak at the World Economic Forum in Davos” – MIT News – February 1, 2012

Noelle Selin and Ernest Moniz participated in recent roundtable hosted by MIT's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change: “EPA air chief talks energy, environment with MIT experts” – MIT News – January 31, 2012

Coverage of Richard Larson’s queue research: “Jockeying, Faffing & Balking: The Science Behind Waiting in Line from MIT” – BostInno – January 30, 2012 (includes video)

Sandy Pentland quoted in coverage on the two-day class “Big Data: Making Complex Things Simpler,” which he teaches with Erik Brynjolfsson (MIT Sloan):
“MIT Sloan course to tackle ‘Big Data’” – The Boston Globe – February 1, 2012

“MIT Sloan School offers ‘Big Data’ program”: Boston Herald – The Ticker blog – February 1, 2012

Article on LGO student David Linders and his “Hacking Medicine” competition project: “Idea draws on engineering and business to help diabetics” – MIT News – January 20, 2012

Nicholas Ashford quoted in article about Change.org campaign focused on Apple workers: “More than 140,000 people join campaign calling on Apple to protect workers” – The Boston Globe – January 31, 2012

The first three books in the MIT Press Engineering Systems Book Series are now available in the MIT Press Bookstore at a 20 percent introductory discount. The newest book in the series is Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety by Nancy Leveson. The book takes a new, systems approach to safety that is suited to today’s complex, sociotechnical, software-intensive world. Read the MIT News item here.

Yossi Sheffi quoted in AP article on new strategy to protect US goods; story was reported from the World Economic Forum in Davos; Prof. Sheffi moderated the panel “Risks in the Global Supply Chain”—this article also features panelists Janet Napolitano, US Secretary of Homeland Security and Daniel Brutto, President, UPS International: “Obama to protect US goods globally” – Associated Press – January 25, 2012; This AP piece ran in many media outlets, including The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and USA Today

MIT News Article on Production in the Innovation Economy (PIE); Olivier de Weck is Executive Director of the PIE initiative: “MIT faculty see promise in American manufacturing” – MIT News – January 25, 2012 **homepage spotlight story** picked up by other media outlets

Noelle Eckley Selin talks about the EPA's recent Mercury and Air Toxics Standards: “MIT researcher: U.S. taking leadership on mercury in the environment” – MIT News – January 20, 2012

Joseph Sussman quoted in article about Massachusetts commuters: “Mass. commuters spend more time on the road than most in U.S.” – Patriot Ledger – December 21, 2011; Also, Prof. Sussman’s High-Speed Rail group is a partner with a rail UTC housed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—view article about this rail research center at UIUC here

Michael Cusumano quoted in article about Google: “Analysis: Wall Street puzzles over Google's new direction” – Reuters Technology News – January 25, 2012

Article on Jessika Trancik’s graduate seminar Energy Systems and Climate Change Mitigation (ESD.124): “Seminar challenges with systems approach to climate change” – MITEI website – January 19, 2012, and on the MIT News site

Article on Harvard Business School survey on U.S competitiveness; Thomas Kochan contributed to the work: “Harvard Business School Survey Reveals Deepening U.S. Competitiveness Problem” – KPHO.com (via PRNewswire-USNewswire ) – January 18, 2012

Coverage on “The Age of Opportunity” study conducted by MIT AgeLab and The Hartford Financial Services Group: “Retirees see Betty White as top role model” – Reuters - January 17, 2012 (Picked up by numerous media outlets nationwide)

Article on vehicle fuel research of Valerie Karplus, ESD PhD ‘11: “Designing policies to curb fuel use, GHG emissions” – MIT News – January 10, 2012

AgeLab's AGNES featured as a limerick on NPR’s quiz show “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!”:
News-related limericks – Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!” – January 7, 2012

Bryan Reimer quoted in Boston Globe article about the new Ford Evos: “Cars’ Internet connections may change driving life” – The Boston Globe – January 10, 2012

Video on NESC/NASA Academy Class on Innovative Engineering Design (Olivier de Weck, featured in video, co-taught this course in 2008) : “Innovative Engineering Design Course” – YouTube video; This one-week class was held at Penn State and led by NASA Astronaut Dr. Charles Camarda together with subject matter experts from NASA and faculty from Penn State (Prof. Sven Bilen, Prof. Jack Mattson), MIT (Prof. Olivier de Weck), and Georgia Tech (Prof. Jeannette Yen). Read a related MIT News story here.

BLOSSOMS featured as “Website of the Week” on MathNEXUS: “Take a Walk through MIT BLOSSOMS” – MathNEXUS – January 9, 2012

BLOSSOMS featured in article about recent MIT STEM workshop: “MIT STEM Workshop Demos Free Math and Science Curriculum” – Transforming Education through Technology – January 3, 2012; This article was featured as the lead item in the ASEE newsletter First Bell, emailed daily to all members of the American Society for Engineering Education.

Prof. Charles Fine describes LGO as a model for the curriculum of the new Indian School of Business campus in Mohali, India: “Charles Fine: Manufacturing sector in India to grow as talent base expands” – LiveMint.com – January 5, 2012

Technology Review article on manufacturing mentions research by Erica Fuchs, ESD PhD alum:“Can We Build Tomorrow's Breakthroughs?” – Technology Review – January/February 2012

Dava Newman models her BioSuit—a
sleek spacesuit that relies on mechanical
counter-pressure instead of using gas
pressurization—on Henry Moore's sculpture
'Reclining Figure' on the MIT campus.
photo courtesy of Donna Coveney/MIT