Founded in 1988 as Leaders for Manufacturing, the program was created to develop technically oriented leaders who would help strengthen the U.S. manufacturing industry in the face of emerging global competition. Learn more
Jeff Stein, LGO '13 and Princeton University (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) '07, describes his internship at Boeing South Carolina, the newest major aircraft factory in the world and the second production site for the 787 Dreamliner.As someone who joined LGO ...
Jessica Bashkoff, LGO '13 and University of Virginia (Mechanical Engineering '09), talks about her LGO internship at UTC-Sikorsky Aircraft in Stratford, Connecticut.Jessica's work at Sikorsky was a continuation of the project conducted by Jeremy Lieberman, LGO '12, ...
Rachel Kelley, LGO '13 and Vanderbilt University (Mechanical Engineering) '05, describes her internship at Spanish fast-fashion company Zara (part of the Inditex group).Rachel is sponsored at LGO by Boeing, where she has worked in build support engineering and became ...
Seth White, LGO '13 and NC State (Industrial and Systems Engineering) '06, describes how he heard about the LGO program, the work he did on his internship at LGO industry partner Amgen, and his plans to keeping Amgen in touch with LGO as he joins the company after ...
Donald Rosenfield, senior lecturer and director of the Leaders for Global Operations Program, discusses innovation and variety as it relates to increasing manufacturing jobs in the U.S.
In a recent MIT Leaders for Global Operations webinar titled “Can Financial Engineering Cure Cancer?”, MIT Sloan Professor Andrew Lo described how the same tools that were used to catastrophically inflate U.S. mortgage debt markets could be used to fuel a “cancer ...
As the leader of strategic and integration planning for Google’s 2012 acquisition of Motorola Mobility, Matt Vokoun, LGO ’05, has played a key role in the Internet giant’s move into the mobile space. In a recent web seminar for the LGO community, Matt ...
Amidst a perfect storm battering funding for renewable energy companies, Aaron Fyke, LGO ’02, was able to model a grid-level energy storage system that would satisfy risk-averse customers by leveraging the cheapest, densest materials and a proven technology. The company Fyke founded, ...
Tatiana Bonnefoi, a 2012 graduate of the MIT Leaders for Global Operations program, talks about working with "the best of the best faculty at MIT." Beyond having your faculty be the authors of leading textbooks, Tatiana describes how the faculty "are always open to ...
Jason Chen, Leaders for Global Operations Class of 2012, describes how he built on his control systems background at the US Naval Academy and subsequent nuclear submarine officer experience as an MBA and Engineering Systems student in the LGO program. Jason describes how LGO and Engineering ...
Jason Chen, a 2012 graduate of the MIT Leaders for Global Operations program, talks about an elective engineering course in Internal Combustion Engines (2.61) he took in his final semester at MIT. The course, a core graduate requirement of Course 2 (Mechanical ...
Jason Chen, a 2012 graduate of the MIT Leaders for Global Operations program, talks about his experience as a member of a student team in the Product Design and Development course. Jason describes how the course offered him many opportunities to build his leadership ...
Tatiana Bonnefoi, a 2012 graduate of the MIT Leaders for Global Operations program, talks about "the perfect example of an MIT class": Course 2.810, Manufacturing Processes and Systems. She talks about the balance of theory and practical lab experience that students ...
Rodney Brooks, Chairman and CTO of Heartland Robotics; Panasonic Professor of Robotics Emeritus, MIT CSAIL Keynote speaker at MIT LGO conference on "The Future of Manufacturing in the U.S." (May 8, 2012) Recent economics have dictated that our lowest-cost goods ...
David Simchi-Levi, LGO faculty co-director and professor of civil and environmental engineering and engineering systems Keynote speaker at MIT LGO conference on "The Future of Manufacturing in the U.S." (May 8, 2012) A growing number of U.S. executives are repatriating ...
Jeffrey Turner, President and CEO of Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. Keynote speaker at MIT LGO conference on "The Future of Manufacturing in the U.S." (May 8, 2012) The current environment presents substantial challenges to U.S.-based, labor-intensive manufacturing, yet ...
Charles Fine, Chrysler LGO Professor of Management and Engineering Systems at MIT Wrap-up speaker at MIT LGO conference on "The Future of Manufacturing in the U.S." (May 8, 2012)
Cindy Estrada, VP of United Auto Workers Keynote speaker at MIT LGO conference on "The Future of Manufacturing in the U.S." (May 9, 2012) This talk explores labor's role in the manufacturing economy in the wake of the financial crisis, and in particular the ...
John Bryson, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Keynote speaker at MIT LGO conference on "The Future of Manufacturing in the U.S." (May 9, 2012) Secretary John Bryson helps lead the federal government's efforts in support of American manufacturing as co-chair of the White ...
