5/8/12
Work by MIT Sloan/LGO professor Retsef Levi and several LGO students was profiled in a Sloan Alumni Magazine article about surgical scheduling at Mass. General Hospital, an LGO partner organization.
4/21/12
Several MIT/LGO notables, including President Susan Hockfield and Profs. Martin Schmidt and Suzanne Berger, are cited by The Economist in a special report on manufacturing and innovation. The series includes pieces on factories and jobs (quoting Hockfield and Berger), automation (quoting MIT/LGO Professor Martin Schmidt) and materials, which cites work by several MIT researchers.
3/29/12
MechE-LGO Prof. David Hardt, a speaker at the upcoming LGO manufacturing conference and PIE member, is working to move microfluidics from lab to factory, as detailed by the MIT News Office.
3/28/12
EECS-LGO Prof. Martin Schmidt joined President Obama and a panel of experts on a Jan. 26 PBS show on "How Many Manufacturing Jobs Can U.S. Realistically Maintain?"
3/27/12
EECS-LGO Prof. Martin Schmidt, a panelist at the upcoming LGO manufacturing conference and MIT faculty lead for AMP, will give a keynote speech at the NJ Institute of Technology clean energy summit on March 30.
3/22/12
For Tim Gutowski, LGO faculty member and head of MIT’s Environmentally Benign Manufacturing research group, advanced manufacturing is an opportunity not just to boost employment but also to improve the environment, according to a profile by the MIT News Office. Gutowski has advised six LGO student theses for companies including Dell and UTC.
2/25/12
MIT Press has Q&As with two LGO/ESD faculty: Olivier de Weck, author of "Engineering Systems: Meeting Human Needs in a Complex Technological World," and Richard de Neufville, co-author of "Flexibility in Engineering Design."
2/24/12
A study by MIT's David Autor details the U.S. employment effects of the rapid rise in low-wage manufacturing industries overseas. It also shows that manufacturing unemployment isn't as acute in the "rust belt" as in other areas of U.S.
2/14/12
News@MIT Sloan reports that Associate Professor Vivek Farias and co-authors won first place in the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 2011 Junior Faculty Interest Group paper competition. The winning paper, entitled "Approximate Dynamic Programming via a Smoothed Linear Program," is forthcoming in Operations Research.
1/9/12
Articles in Mint (a New Delhi partner of the Wall Street Journal) and the Times of India note that MIT Professor Charles Fine is using LGO's curriculum as a basis for the manufacturing management curriculum he's developing for the new Munjal Global Manufacturing Institute at the Indian School of Business. Fine is a professor of operations management and engineering systems at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
12/19/11
In several publications including Boston Business Journal, Mass High Tech, and the Boston Globe, LGO was named as one of the programs using a new iPad app to read and evaluate applications from prospective students.
11/28/11
In a Bloomberg BusinessWeek story about dual-degree graduate programs, LGO was recognized as high-quality dual-degree program that also serves to strengthen ties with industry.
11/21/11
Leonora L. Lanza (LGO '12) published an interview with Tana Utley (a 2007 Sloan Fellow) in Sloan Women in Management.
11/17/11
Quality Digest picked up on an MIT News Office story about remarks by LGO industry co-director Vah Erdekian on the importance of ongoing innovation for manufacturing.
11/16/11
Several media outlets, including boston.com, iStockAnalyst, Sys-Con Media and Sporting Goods Intelligence reported that LGO has three new industry partners.
10/14/11
Professor David Simchi-Levi, faculty co-director of LGO, was quoted in a Bloomberg BuisnessWeek article on "Hope for American Manufacturing and Maybe Jobs."
10/11/11
IndustryWeek and the Huffington Post noted that the "prestigious" LGO is a key source of skilled workers in advanced manufacturing.
MIT News Office feed on MIT and manufacturing
4/2/12
The New York Times says research by MIT’s Production in the Innovation Economy commission has noted an important link between manufacturing and innovation, a link touted by Gene B. Sperling, director of the National Economic Council.
3/14/12
After decades of outsourcing production, many large U.S. companies are losing the manufacturing and engineering expertise needed to scale up and produce today's most innovative new technologies, according to a widely cited article in MIT’s Technology Review magazine.
3/12/12
The Novartis-MIT Center for Continuous Manufacturing has demonstrated a prototype that can transform raw materials into tablets in a nonstop process, as opposed to the conventional (and more expensive) batch process, the MIT News Office reports. Novartis CEO Joseph Jiminez will speak at the LGO conference on "The Future of Manufacturing in the U.S." in May.
3/7/12
MIT Professor researcher Judy Hoyt says in an MIT News Office article that U.S. chipmakers (and maybe other industries) have a commercial incentive to keep manufacturing at home. Innovative ideas that afford a competitive advantage often emerge from the very process of building and operating a fabrication facility, she says.
2/14/12
Highlighting federal efforts to revive U.S. manufacturing, the Energy Department’s new Advanced Manufacturing Office is hosting a webcast on Feb. 14 to lay out the objectives of the office, which is part of the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership co-chaired by MIT President Susan Hockfield.
1/30/12
Nearly a third of companies now say that the adoption of sustainable practices has added to their profitability, according to a new MIT study — and manufacturing firms are in the vanguard.
1/26/12
As part of its series on MIT and manufacturing, the MIT News Office described the work of the Production in the Innovation Economy (PIE) commission.
9/16/11
Several MIT faculty members joined Ron Bloom, former senior counselor for manufacturing policy for President Obama, to discuss the role of manufacturing in "Rebuilding the American Economy," a forum sponsored by Production in the Innovation Economy (PIE) and the Department of Political Science.
8/29/11
In an op-ed piece in the New York Times, Susan Hockfield, MIT president and co-leader of President Obama's Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, called for a "new era" in U.S. advanced manufacturing.
7/1/11
Suzanne Berger, professor of political science and co-chair of MIT's Production in the Innovation Economy (PIE) project, made a case in Technology Review for optimism about a renewal of American production capabilities with the help of new manufacturing technologies.
