The United States still produces a great deal of promising basic research and technological innovation; what is needed is a better sense of how to translate those advances into economic growth and new jobs. Read more about MIT's work on advanced manufacturing
Professor of Electrical Engineering & Associate Provost Martin A. Schmidt
As President Obama and GOP presidential candidates talk about reviving the U.S. manufacturing sector in hopes of creating jobs, how realistic is that goal in the face of continued outsourcing and machines filling jobs once held by humans?
In this video, LGO Program Director Don Rosenfield invites you to register to attend "The Future of Manufacturing in the U. S." conference in May 2012.
* Moderator: Karen Mills, Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration * Guy Broadbent, President and CEO, Xcellerex, Inc. * Jill Becker, CEO, Cambridge NanoTech * Michael Casper, Founder, President and CEO, UltraSource, Inc. * Joanna Dowling, Director, The ...
* Moderator: Suzanne Berger, MIT's Raphael Dorman-Helen Starbuck Professor of Political Science and Co-chair of the Production in the Innovation Economy (PIE) project * Mark Trusheim, Bio-manufacturing Executive in Residence, UMASS Dartmouth * Bernhardt Trout, ...
* Moderator: David Hart, Assistant Director of Innovation Policy, Office of Science and Technology Policy * Gregory Bialecki, Secretary of Housing and Economic Development, MA * Lawrence Miller, Secretary, Agency of Commerce and Community Development, VT * George ...
* Moderator: Gururaj (Desh) Deshpande, Chairman of Sparta Group LLC * Marc Giroux, SVP Manufacturing Technology and Engineering, Chief Engineer at Corning * Luis Izquierdo, Vice President of Corporate Operations at Raytheon * Geoff MacKay, President and CEO of ...
White House Perspective Jason Miller, Special Assistant to the President for Manufacturing Policy Summary of AMP Workstreams * Carrie Houtman, Senior Public Policy Manager, The Dow Chemical Company * Ben Wang, Chief Manufacturing Officer, Georgia Institute of Technology
* Moderator: Susan Hockfield * Subra Suresh, Director of the National Science Foundation * Patrick Gallagher, Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology, NIST Director * Ken Gabriel, Deputy Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency * Henry Kelly, Acting Assistant ...
* Susan Hockfield, President of MIT * The Honorable Deval Patrick, Governor of Massachusetts * Video: Andrew Liveris, Chairman and CEO of The Dow Chemical Company
