1. Welcome to AY 2008/2009 ESD Faculty Lunch September 2 nd, 2008

2. 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.

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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 10 th Anniversary Symposium, June 2009