Startup company QD Vision demonstrates their full color quantum-dot display. This prototype is the first step towards a low-power, richly colorful display.
04/05/2011 4:00 PM Daniel Roos, '61, SM '63, PhD '66, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems Description: The world economic order has shifted considerably since 1990, when Daniel Roos and his coauthors wrote The Machine that Changed ...
LGO Web Seminar Series Dr. Stanley Gershwin, MIT Laboratory for Manufacturing Productivity Inventory and Variability Presentation date: December 13, 2010 Abstract: Variability is the enemy of manufacturing. Inventory is used to minimize the effects of variability, but ...
A video tour of the Building 35 Lab, which is used for manufacturing in MechE coursework and research.
Participant Tom Hedger discusses why he chose MIT Sloan Executive Education to help re-invent the strategy of his family business and the practices he put into place. Learn more about MIT Sloan Executive Education.
06/05/2010 9:00 AM Wong AuditoriumEdward B. Roberts, '57, SM '58, SM '60, PhD '62, David Sarnoff Professor of the Management of Technology; Chair, MIT Entrepreneurship CenterDescription: Ed Roberts reviews the effects of entrepreneurship within MIT and the relation of ...
05/03/2010 4:30 PM Copley Place MarriottBrian Dumaine, Sr., Editor at Large, Fortune Magazine; Nancy Floyd, Founder & Managing Director Nth Power; Scott Stern, Visiting Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management; Kevin Surace, CEO, Serious MaterialsDescription: Beyond guts, a great business ...
03/02/2010 4:00 PM 3"270Charles Fine, Chrysler Leaders for Manufacturing Professor; MIT Sloan School of Management; Richard Roth, Research Associate, Engineering Systems DivisionDescription: Suppose you could leapfrog 100 years of experience in the automotive industry ...
02/23/2010 4:00 PM 3"270David Simchi"Levi, Professor of Engineering Systems and Civil EngineeringDescription: The need for flexible management of supply chains to increase operational efficiencies could not be greater, as modern companies outsource and manufacture overseas. David Simchi" Levi ...
Mario Paniccia, director of Intel's Photonics Technology Lab, describes the company's new silicon-based avalanche photodetector and explains the technical challenges involved in making it.
04/08/2009 3:00 PM Bartos theaterJohn Krafcik, SM '88, President and CEO, Hyundai Motor AmericaDescription: In 1986, Hyundai's first export to the U.S, the $4995 Excel, developed embarrassing quality problems, and the company found itself grist for late night talk ...
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the (Sustainable) Market: Capturing Policy, Technology and Market in the Life Cycle ModelMIT SEMINAR SERIES IN MANUFACTURING AND PRODUCTIVITY, Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 Dr. Hilary Grimes-CaseySchool of Natural Resources and ...
The Construction of Preference in Engineering Design and Implications for Green ProductsMIT SEMINAR SERIES IN MANUFACTURING AND PRODUCTIVITY Place: Given Lounge, Room 35-520 Time: 12:00 P.M. Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Dr. Erin MacDonaldDept. of Mechanical Engineering, ...
A fun 3 minute video featuring individual students and faculty members.