Webinar: Ocean Transportation Reliability: Myths, Realities, and Impacts

MIT CTL Advances in Supply Chain Management Webinar Series: Ocean Transportation Reliability: Myths, Realities, and Impacts Most supply chains are global to some degree, which means that you are probably managing a complicated transportation network that crosses a ...

Using Systems Engineering Tools to Design a Smart Energy Box - Jonathan ...

About the Presentation A network that distributes power generated by Renewable Energy Supplies (RESs) will require a "smart box" in each home in the network to meter power and to connect to and communicate with other elements of the network. These smart boxes will also ...

Understanding and Designing Complex Sociotechnical Systems

A member of the MIT faculty for 45 years, Joseph M. Sussman is the JR East Professor in the Engineering Systems Division and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT.

The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive ...

Yossi Sheffi, SM '77, PhD '78, Director, Engineering Systems Division, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems Director, MIT Center for Transportation and LogisticsDescription: Yossi Sheffi fires a shot across the bow of business ...

The MIT AgeLab and New England UTC's AwareCar

The MIT AgeLab and New England University Transportation Center have developed the AwareCar to better understand driver state, the role of health & wellness, and in-vehicle systems as a means to improve driver performance across the lifespan.

The Launch of the ATM and How It Revolutionized Personal Banking

John Shepard Reed - Chairman of the MIT Corporation and Retired Chairman & CEO of Citigroup, Inc.Reed spoke about the deployment of ATMs during the 1970s. This is a real-world example of the early deployment of an interactive, real-time system at scale, within a ...

Technical Debt in Large Systems: Understanding the Cost of Software ...

Dan Sturtevant, Ph.D., is an SDM alumnus and recent graduate of the MIT Engineering Systems Division doctoral program. His recent work has focused on modeling complex socio-technical systems using network, system dynamics, agent-based, statistical, and other ...

Tatiana Bonnefoi, LGO '12, on working with "the best of the best" faculty ...

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 ...

Tatiana Bonnefoi, LGO '12, on "the perfect example of an MIT class": ...

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 ...

Software Systems Architecture in the World of Cloud Computing

SDM alumna Christine Miyachi has almost 30 years of experience working for startups and large corporations.

Shannon Roberts Presents CityBrowser Voice Navigation System

Shannon Roberts, MIT Class of 2009, describes a joint project she worked on with the MIT AgeLab, New England University Transportation Center and MIT's CSAIL Laboratory. CityBrowser is an in-vehicle navigation system with which the user interacts with via voice ...

Overview of MIT's Production in the Innovation Economy (PIE) Initiative

MIT Sloan Experts: Systems engineering view of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner

Steven Eppinger, the General Motors LGO Professor of Management, discusses the systems engineering for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner

MIT Portugal - Minister Paulo Portas

Paulo Portas, Portugal’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, introduced by Ernest Moniz, director of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI).Sponsored by the MIT Portugal Program.

MIT Energy Club: Future of Energy Panel Session

This panel discusses the future of America's energy system, focusing on electricity. A variety of topics, such as the effect of the economic downturn on energy initiatives, enabling innovation at utilities, decoupling, transmission regulation and carbon policy are ...