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Welcome to AY 2008/2009

Welcome to AY 2008/2009. ESD Faculty Lunch September 2 nd , 2008. 2007-2008 Highlights. Frey and de Weck tenured Hired Webster Finish and put into effect the PhD program plan On-going course coordination Launch the ES book series Developing several new courses LFM re-branding

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Welcome to AY 2008/2009

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  1. Welcome to AY 2008/2009 ESD Faculty Lunch September 2nd, 2008

  2. 2007-2008 Highlights • Frey and de Weck tenured • Hired Webster • Finish and put into effect the PhD program plan • On-going course coordination • Launch the ES book series • Developing several new courses • LFM re-branding • E40 space renovation • E38 upcoming space move • Finished the ESD Strategic Document • Administration: DH; ADH; AO; Comm.

  3. ESD Awards • Oli de Weck – Outstanding Service Award, AIAA MDO Technical Committee, 5/07 • Warren Seering – Frank Perkins Award, MIT (Excellence in advising and teaching), 5/07 • Yossi Sheffi – PLAZA Award, Government of Aragon (most significant contribution to economic growth), 6/07 • Dan Frey – Best Paper Award, ASME Design Theory and Methodology, 9/07 • Hamsa Belakrishnan - T. Wilson Career Development Professorship, 9/07 • Annalisa Weigel – elected an Associate Fellow AIAA • Joe Sussman – elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for 2007, 10/07 • Dava Newman’s Bio-Suit was named by TIME Magazine as one of the Best Inventions of the Year, 11/07 • Hamsa Balakrishnan received an NSF CAREER award, 1/08 • Nancy Leveson named one of 2007 top executives who had the greatest impact on the government information systems community, 2/08

  4. ESD Awards • Joe Sussman appointed chair of the ITS Advisory Committee • Joe Coughlin named among “12 People who are Changing the Future of Your retirement” by the Wall Street Journal, 2/08 • Cindy Barnhart named President of INFORMS, 2/08 • Joe Sussman – Career Achievement Award, City College of NY Engineering School Alumni, 4/08 • Sheila Widnall received three honorary DSC degrees from Oxford, Claremont, and Northwestern 4/08 • Adam Ross and Donna Rhodes, Best Paper Award IEEE Systems Conference, 4/08 • Stephen Graves was named POMS Fellow, 4/08 • Joe Coughlin was named a “Hero in Home Healthcare Innovation” by the Visiting Nurse Association 4/08 • Oli de Weck – 2007 Best Paper Award, SystemEngineering, 6/08 • Mort Webster - $750,000 NSF grant 6/08 • Mort Webster - $4 million NSF grant, 7/08 • Richard de Neufville awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for a program on German to environmental risks

  5. ESD Awards • Adam Ross and Donna Rhodes, Best Paper Award INCOSE Conference, 7/08 • Dan Hastings and Donna Rhodes, Best Paper Award INCOSE Conference, 7/08 • Yossi Sheffi – the Eccles medal for fundamental contributions to logistics education, SOLE, 8/08 • Richard de Neufville to receive TRB’s Francis X. McKelvey Award 1/09

  6. This Year • Faculty: • New hires: ESD only + New joint and dual faculty • New TBA Process (clusters, gender preference) • Promotions (Kirchain and Williams) • Education committee • Implement the new PhD; orals • New courses (Social Science Methods; Simulation; Scholarship;…) • Visiting committee • November 18, 19 • Goals • New initiatives • CBI • Design Center • Human Technology Interaction • Service Science • 10th Anniversary Symposium, June 2009

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