April 2013
2013 Shingo Research Award Recipients
SSRC researchers Josef Oehmen and Eric Rebentisch won the 2013 Shingo Research Award for The Guide to Lean Enablers for Managing Engineering Programs based on research conducted in...
Farm Animal Production in America
Designing Systems for a Complex World Every year between 8 and 9 billion animals are raised and slaughtered for food in the U.S. This industrial–scale production system is...
Managing Complexity in an Uncertain World
Conversations on Complexity Systems engineers approach large, complex problems and develop systems that may take a decade or more to implement. By the time these systems become...
May 2013
Conversations on Complexity: Technology and Policy Questions for Self-Driving Cars
Prof. John Leonard will review some of the technological aspects of recently developed self-driving vehicles, which have the potential to transform our transportation infrastructure. He will focus on...
Navigation and Mapping Technologies for Autonomous Vehicles
Conversations on Complexity
Conversations on Complexity: Improving Health Care Delivery in the Veterans Health Administration
Every year the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs provides services to more than 6 million veterans and their families at 1,400 sites and 153 medical centers. Julie Andren and Shahed Al-Haque will...
Improving Health Care Delivery in the Veterans Health Administration
Presenters:
Julie Andren, M.S. Candidate '13
Aerospace Engineering, AeroAstro
Shahed Al-Haque, M.S. Candidate '13
Technology and Policy, Engineering Systems
The Future of Science & Technology in International Development
Dr. Alex Dehgan, Science and Technology Adviser to the Administrator and Director at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Designing Systems for a Complex World: Guiding Our Veterans Home, Our National Challenge
Brig. Gen. (ret.) Dr. Loree Sutton will discuss her work with Homeward Bound USA, an innovative, comprehensive program that fosters the development of resiliency-informed communities. Homeward Bound...
June 2013
MIT Professional Education: Architecting the Future Enterprise
Enterprises evolve over time, but transformation efforts too often fail to achieve intended outcomes. We teach a holistic approach to understand the 'as-is' enterprise, generate and evaluate...
