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Daniel
E. Whitney, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist, Center For Technology,
Policy and Industrial Development; Senior Lecturer
in Engineering Systems, MIT |
Dr.
Whitney holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, which he
received from MIT in 1968.
Dr.
Whitney works with engineering, management, and policy researchers
and students in connection with the Leaders for Manufacturing
Program (LFM), the System Deign Management Program (SDM),
the Lean Aircraft Initiative (LAI), and the Ford-MIT Research
Alliance. His research includes product development, the
use of computers in product design, understanding the role
of assembly in the design and manufacturing process, and
understanding how companies decide what design and manufacturing
skills and facilities are core competencies. He teaches
Mechanical Assembly in the Mechanical Engineering Department
and helps teach Product Design and Development in the Sloan
School of Management.
Dr.
Whitney is the Program Area Manager for Information-Based
Product Development research in the Ford-MIT Alliance. He
is also the author or co-author of several books and over
80 articles in scholarly journals. His new book is called
Mechanical Assemblies: Their Design, Manufacture, and
Role in Product Development, published by Oxford University
Press.
Dr.
Whitney has also worked at the Draper Laboratory. At both
MIT and Draper he has done research on robotics, mechanical
assembly, design for automation, and use of CAD in the product
development process. He has also taken part in many product
design activities with industrial companies, dealing with
assembly problems for both military and commercial products.
He consults to major corporations in technology strategy
and manufacturing.
Dr.
Whitney has traveled extensively, lived in Japan and Europe,
and has written articles about product design methods in
other countries. He is a Fellow of the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers and a Fellow of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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