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Engineering
Systems Symposium
March
29-31, 2004
Tang Center - Wong Auditorium, MIT
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On-line
registration for the March 29-31 Engineering
Systems Symposium is closed.
There is limited space available for
on-site registration on Monday and
Tuesday, March 29th and 30th.
A
major symposium on engineering systems
will be held at MIT on March 29-31,
2004. The first two days of the Symposium
will feature plenary sessions with
invited speakers from industry, government,
and academia. The third day will feature
accepted papers on specific topics
in engineering systems with an emphasis
on foundational issues.
For
a preliminary agenda for the third
day, please click here.
The
Symposium will explore the emerging
field of engineering systems. Prominent
speakers from industry and government
will describe issues and challenges
in engineering systems based on their
real world experiences. Academics
from MIT and other leading universities
will discuss advances in engineering
systems research and education. The
speakers will explore engineering
systems from several different perspectives
including foundational issues (e.g.
complexity, flexibility, uncertainty,
emergence, system architecture), system
domains (e.g. transportation, energy,
telecommunications, aerospace), and
contextual considerations (e.g. social,
political, economic and institutional
factors).
Some
of the speakers are: Charles Vest,
President of MIT; William Wulf, President
of the National Academy of Engineering;
Sheila Widnall, MIT Institute Professor
and member of the Columbia Accident
Investigation Board; Travis Engen,
President and Chief Executive Officer
of Alcan; Joseph Bordogna, Deputy
Director of the National Science Foundation;
Mortimer Downey, former Deputy Secretary
of the U.S. Department of Transportation;
Fred Salvucci, architect of the Boston
Central Artery Project (the "Big
Dig"); Joel Moses, MIT Institute
Professor; Thomas Hughes, Emeritus
Mellon Professor of the History and
Sociology of Science at the University
of Pennsylvania; Robert Lucky, Corporate
Vice President, Applied Research,
Bellcore; Mary Good, former Undersecretary
of Technology, U.S. Department of
Commerce; and Lui Pao Chuen, Chief
Defense Scientist, Singapore.
About
Engineering Systems:
The engineering profession today faces
a series of unprecedented challenges
as the size, scope, and complexity
of engineering systems increase at
an accelerating rate. Engineering
system problems present new and difficult
design considerations because of globalization,
emerging technological opportunities,
rising consumer expectations and increasing
social requirements. New frameworks,
methodologies and approaches must
be developed to better understand
engineering systems behavior and design.
In addition to increasing technical
complexity, an engineer must consider
organizational and societal requirements
to insure that engineering systems
are developed on time, on budget and
performs to technical expectations.
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