Welcome to AY 2008/2009

ESD Faculty Lunch

September 2nd, 2008

2007-2008 Highlights

• Frey and de Weck tenured• Hired Webster• Finish and put into effect the PhD program plan• On-going course coordination• Launch the ES book series• Developing several new courses• LFM re-branding• E40 space renovation• E38 upcoming space move• Finished the ESD Strategic Document• Administration: DH; ADH; AO; Comm.

ESD Awards• Oli de Weck – Outstanding Service Award, AIAA MDO Technical Committee, 5/07• Warren Seering – Frank Perkins Award, MIT (Excellence in advising and teaching),

5/07• Yossi Sheffi – PLAZA Award, Government of Aragon (most significant contribution

to economic growth), 6/07• Dan Frey – Best Paper Award, ASME Design Theory and Methodology, 9/07• Hamsa Belakrishnan - T. Wilson Career Development Professorship, 9/07• Annalisa Weigel – elected an Associate Fellow AIAA• Joe Sussman – elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of

Science for 2007, 10/07• Dava Newman’s Bio-Suit was named by TIME Magazine as one of the Best

Inventions of the Year, 11/07• Hamsa Balakrishnan received an NSF CAREER award, 1/08• Nancy Leveson named one of 2007 top executives who had the greatest impact on

the government information systems community, 2/08

ESD Awards• Joe Sussman appointed chair of the ITS Advisory Committee• Joe Coughlin named among “12 People who are Changing the Future of Your

retirement” by the Wall Street Journal, 2/08• Cindy Barnhart named President of INFORMS, 2/08• Joe Sussman – Career Achievement Award, City College of NY Engineering School

Alumni, 4/08• Sheila Widnall received three honorary DSC degrees from Oxford, Claremont, and

Northwestern 4/08• Adam Ross and Donna Rhodes, Best Paper Award IEEE Systems Conference,

4/08• Stephen Graves was named POMS Fellow, 4/08• Joe Coughlin was named a “Hero in Home Healthcare Innovation” by the Visiting

Nurse Association 4/08• Oli de Weck – 2007 Best Paper Award, System Engineering, 6/08• Mort Webster - $750,000 NSF grant 6/08• Mort Webster - $4 million NSF grant, 7/08• Richard de Neufville awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for a program on German to

environmental risks

ESD Awards

• Adam Ross and Donna Rhodes, Best Paper Award INCOSE Conference, 7/08

• Dan Hastings and Donna Rhodes, Best Paper Award INCOSE Conference, 7/08

• Yossi Sheffi – the Eccles medal for fundamental contributions to logistics education, SOLE, 8/08

•Richard de Neufville to receive TRB’s Francis X. McKelvey Award 1/09

This Year• Faculty:

– New hires: ESD only + New joint and dual faculty– New TBA Process (clusters, gender preference)– Promotions (Kirchain and Williams)

• Education committee– Implement the new PhD; orals– New courses (Social Science Methods; Simulation; Scholarship;…)

• Visiting committee– November 18, 19– Goals

• New initiatives– CBI– Design Center– Human Technology Interaction– Service Science

• 10th Anniversary Symposium, June 2009