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Agenda Engineering Systems Symposium March 29-31, 2004 Tang Center - Wong Auditorium, MIT March 29, 2004 – Day 1 8:00 – 9:00 am Registration 9:00 – 10:40 am PERSPECTIVES ON ENGINEERING    Chair: James A. Champy, Chairman of Consulting, Perot Systems   Introductory Remarks: Charles M. Vest, President, MIT          [SPEAKER'S NOTES]   History of Engineering: Thomas Hughes, Mellon Professor Emeritus of the History of Science, University of Pennsylvania; Distinguished Visiting Professor, MIT          [SPEAKER'S NOTES] David Mindell, Francis and David Dibner Associate Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing; Associate Professor of Engineering Systems, MIT          [SPEAKER'S NOTES]   Engineering Systems Overview: Daniel Roos, Associate Dean for Engineering Systems; Co-Director, MIT Engineering Systems Division          [SLIDES] 10:40 – 11:00 am Break 11:00 – 11:50 am NASA CHALLENGER/COLUMBIA SHUTTLE ACCIDENT: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?    Chair: Alexander Levis, Chief Scientist U.S. Air Force, Professor, George Mason University Sheila Widnall, Institute Professor; Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems, MIT; Member, Columbia Accident Investigation Board 12:00 – 1:20 pm LUNCHEON     SPEAKER: William Wulf, President, National Academy of Engineering          [MIT WORLD] 1:30 – 3:15 pm GOVERNMENT PERSPECTIVES ON ENGINEERING SYSTEMS    Chair: Granger Morgan, Department Head, Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University          [SLIDES] Mortimer Downey, President, pbConsult; former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Transportation          [SLIDES] Pao Chuen Lui, Chief Defense Scientist, Ministry of Defense, Singapore; Chairman, Temasek Defense Systems Institute          [SLIDES] Joseph Bordogna, Deputy Director; National Science Foundation          [SLIDES] | [SPEAKER'S NOTES] Mary Good, Donaghey University Professor and Dean, University of Arkansas; former Under Secretary of Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce           [SPEAKER'S NOTES] 3:15 – 3:45 pm Break 3:45 – 5:30 pm INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVES ON ENGINEERING SYSTEMS    Chair: Keith Glover, Head, Department of Engineering, Cambridge University, UK Travis Engen, President and CEO, Alcan Inc.          [SLIDES] John Grace, ArvinMeritor Inc.          [SLIDES] Robert W. Lucky, Telcordia Technologies, Inc. (Retired)          [SLIDES] Michael Hammer, President, Hammer and Company, Inc.          [SLIDES]  5:45 – 6:45 pm EVENING RECEPTION – MIT Faculty Club (sixth floor) 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge March 30, 2004 – Day 2 8:30 – 10:00 am ACADEMIC PERSPECTIVES ON ENGINEERING SYSTEMS    Chair: James C. Bean, Associate Dean of Engineering, University of Michigan Henk Sol, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology           [SLIDES]  Earll Murman, Ford Professor of Engineering; Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems, MIT          [SLIDES] Cristina H. Amon, Raymond J. Lane Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Director of the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems, Carnegie Mellon University          [SLIDES] Elisabeth Paté-Cornell, Professor and Chair, Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University  10:00 – 10:30 am Break 10:30 – 11:45 am METHODOLOGIES RELEVANT TO ENGINEERING SYSTEMS     Chair: Richard C. Larson, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems Thomas Cook, Chairman and CEO, CALEB Technologies Corp. Mark Paich, Principal, Decisio Consulting George Friedman, Adjunct Professor of Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, University of Southern California          [SLIDES]  12:00 – 1:20 pm LUNCHEON     SPEAKER: Fred Salvucci, Senior Lecturer, Center for Transportation and Logistics, MIT; principal architect of the “Big Dig” concept 1:30 – 3:30 pm OVERVIEW OF FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS IN ENGINEERING SYSTEMS     Chair & Speaker: Joel Moses, Institute Professor, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Engineering Systems, MIT          [SLIDES]  Daniel Whitney, Senior Research Scientist, Center For Technology, Policy and Industrial Development; Senior Lecturer in Engineering Systems, MIT          [SLIDES]  Richard de Neufville, Professor of Engineering Systems and of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT          [SLIDES]  Thomas Allen, Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management; Professor of Engineering Systems, MIT          [SLIDES]  David Hunter Marks, Morton and Claire Goulder Family Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems, Director, Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, MIT          [SLIDES]  Nancy Leveson, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems, MIT  3:30 – 4:00 pm Break 4:00 – 5:30 pm LOOKING AHEAD     Chair: Thomas Magnanti, Dean, MIT School of Engineering F. Stan Settles, Professor and Director Engineering Management Program, University of Southern California William Rouse, Head Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech          [SLIDES] | [RELATED PAPER ] Daniel Hastings, Co-Director, Engineering Systems Division, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems, MIT          [SPEAKER'S NOTES]  Barry Horowitz, Professor of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Virginia   6:00 – 7:00 pm EVENING RECEPTION – MIT Museum (Bldg. N52), 265 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge   March 31, 2004 – Day 3 This day is focused primarily for researchers, although all participants are invited to attend. Submitted papers will be presented in parallel sessions. Over 50 abstracts have been submitted. The Call for Papers placed an emphasis on the areas of research on foundational issues, such as complexity, flexibility, uncertainty, emergence, and system architecture, and their relevance to large-scale engineering systems. In addition, papers were sought on system safety, security, and sustainability, engineering systems domains (e.g., transportation, energy, communications, aerospace) as well as contextual considerations (social, political, economic and institutional factors). Papers on educational programs in Engineering Systems were also requested. Abstracts of submitted papers are currently being evaluated. To view the program for Day 3, click here. Day 3 will be held at the Cambridge Marriott, 2 Cambridge Center (Broadway & 3rd Street), Cambridge, MA 02142. Rooms to be assigned.