MIT ILP Upcoming Events

07/04/08: MIT Closed - Independence Day

07/04/08

07/04/08:

07/07/08: Precision Engineering: Theory, Concepts and Principles [2.75Ts]

07/07/08

07/07/08: Intensive coverage of precision engineering theory, principles, modeling, design and manufacturing practices. Emphasis is placed on understanding principles and how they are applied to current and emerging applications. The fundamentals are reinforced via case studies from diverse fields, including: optics (X-ray and micro-scale), biomedical instruments, consumer products, nanopositioners, machine tools, instruments, and MEMS.

Course: 2.75Ts Tuition: $1,500 CEUs: 1.0

Combined tuition for 2.75Ts/2.75Ps or 2.75Ts/2.90s is $2,500.
Combined tuition for 2.75Ts, 2.75Ps, and 2.90s is $3,750.

Full course details at: http://web.mit.edu/mitpep/pi/courses/precision_engineering.html

07/07/08: Design and Analysis of Experiments [14.37s]

07/07/08

07/07/08: After quickly reviewing the modest statistical background useful for the material in the course, we emphasize the designing, carrying out and analyzing of experiments in the areas of science, engineering and management. We describe several real-world examples and include illustrations of analysis using several software packages. Our goal is to have you be able to carry out detailed experiments immediately upon your return to your company.

Full course details:
http://web.mit.edu/mitpep/pi/courses/design_analysis_experiments.html

Course: 14.37s Tuition: $2,700 CEUs: 3.5

07/07/08: Relativity, Gravity and Cosmology [8.06s]

07/07/08

07/07/08: Recent advances in gravitation theory and cosmology, combined with breakthroughs in observational astronomy, are transforming our understanding of space and time and our perspectives on the origin and future fate of the universe. This course is designed both for individuals who would like to learn the fundamentals of Einstein's theories of relativity and for those who are interested in the most recent advances in our understanding of the nature of black holes and other relativistic phenomena in our universe and the formation and evolution of the universe itself.

The course will cover a large number of topics, ranging from the experimental and theoretical underpinnings of the special and general theories of relativity to the birth, history, and future evolution of the universe. All subject matter will be presented on a level accessible to anyone familiar with algebra and Freshman-level physics.

Do not be concerned about the request for professional credentials in the standard application form. This course is intended for interested laypersons with a Freshman level of understanding of algebra, not for professionals in relativity or cosmology.

Course: 8.06s Tuition: $1,950 CEUs: 2.5

Full course details at: http://web.mit.edu/mitpep/pi/courses/relativity_gravity.html

07/08/08: Precision Engineering: Design and Practice [2.75Ps]

07/08/08

07/08/08: Use concepts, theory and principles taught during 2.75Ts to fabricate, characterize and operate a precision machine (either a nanopositioner or a desktop lathe). Participants are allowed to keep the mechanical components (i.e. no electronics or sensors) of the machines built. Primary focus is on (i) the fabrication, integration and use of structures, flexures, kinematic couplings, and linear/rotary bearings and (ii) the use of precision instruments/metrology to measure performance. Prerequisite: 2.75Ts

Course: 2.75Ps Tuition: $1,500 CEUs: 1.0

Combined tuition for 2.75Ts/2.75Ps is $2,500.
Combined tuition for 2.75Ts, 2.75Ps, and 2.90s is $3,750.

Full course details at: http://web.mit.edu/mitpep/pi/courses/precision_engineering.html#LAB

07/09/08: Robots versus Disease

07/09/08

07/09/08: Anne Carpenter, PhD

Robotic microscopes can produce millions of images a day, bringing human, animal and even bacterial cells into a close-up view. The challenge is to sort through this mountain of biological information to uncover meaningful results. Anne Carpenter will describe how biologists can train computers to "look" at images and learn to find cells displaying rare and unusual characteristics, thereby enabling research on diseases like cancer and tuberculosis.
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More about the Midsummer Nights' Science Lecture Series:

We stand at a unique moment in human history. Our knowledge of the human genome -- our DNA -- is transforming the way we think about healthcare, justice, technology, ethnicity and so much more.
Cambridge, MA is the home for much of this work, and it holds immense promise for this community.

07/10/08: Design of Flexures and Compliant Mechanisms: Fundamentals and Practical Application [2.90s]

07/10/08

07/10/08: Intensive coverage of compliant mechanism theory, modeling, design and fabrication practices. Emphasis is placed on understanding fundamentals and examining current and next generation applications. The fundamentals are reinforced via discussion of examples from the following fields: macro, micro and nano-scale mechanism; consumer products; nanopositioning; nano-scale compliant mechanisms; robotics; and deployable mechanisms/structures.

Course: 2.90s Tuition: $1,500 CEUs: 1.5

Combined tuition for 2.75Ts/2.90s is $2,500.
Combined tuition for 2.75Ts, 2.75Ps, and 2.90s is $3,750.

Full course details at: http://web.mit.edu/mitpep/pi/courses/compliant_mechanism_design.html

07/14/08: From Technology to Innovation: Putting Ideas to Work [17.50s]

07/14/08

07/14/08: Both public and private organizations are concerned with innovating to keep pace with a fast changing environment. Yet attempts to innovate are usually disruptive, cause internal dissension, and often fail. This course, taught by MIT experts and affiliates, explores failures and successes to identify strategies that can sustain significant innovation.

Course: 17.50s Tuition: $3,600 CEUs: 2.5

Full course details at http://web.mit.edu/mitpep/pi/courses/technology_innovation.html

07/14/08: Supply Chain Network Design [PI.19s]

07/14/08

07/14/08: In today�s dynamic business environment, many companies are expanding, contracting, or otherwise redesigning their supply chain networks. This course addresses practical applications of optimization models to supply chain network design including case studies in global manufacturing, distribution center location, and post-merger consolidation.

Course: PI.19s Tuition: $1,250 CEUs: 1.0

Combined tuition for PI.19s/PI.20s is $2,250.

Full course details at: http://web.mit.edu/mitpep/pi/courses/supply_chain_network_design.html

07/14/08: Information Quality for Executives [ESD.IQEs]

07/14/08

07/14/08: This course aims to give participants capability and skills to understand and solve information quality problems, to deliver the benefits of improved information quality, and to apply state-of-the-art research to discover ways to increase the value of data warehouse initiatives, reduce costs associated with poor-quality data, and more. You will learn information quality principles, methods, and techniques, and successful implementations.

Course: ESD.IQEs Tuition: $1,595 CEUs: 1.5

Full course details at: http://web.mit.edu/mitpep/pi/courses/information_quality_executives.html

07/14/08: Multicore Programming [6.05s]

07/14/08

07/14/08: Multicores are bringing about a paradigm shift in programming. The course exposes students to fundamental issues in the design of concurrent programs and to the techniques necessary to make effective use of multicore machines. It combines lectures and classwork to gradually enhance students' intuition and technique.

Full course details:
http://web.mit.edu/mitpep/pi/courses/multicore_programming.html

Course: 6.05s Tuition: $2,650 CEUs: 3.0

07/14/08: Data and Models in Engineering, Science and Business, Part I [12.15s]

07/14/08

07/14/08: A course for anyone wanting to fit data to models. Topics include linear least squares, non-linear least squares, singular value decomposition, sensitivity analysis, experiment design and parameter error estimation (Jackknife). Introduces principles leading to rapid application of methods. Includes pre-programmed computer exercises.

Full course details:
http://web.mit.edu/mitpep/pi/courses/data_models1.html

Course: 12.15s Tuition: $1,500 CEUs: 1.5
Combined tuition for 12.15s/12.16s is $2,500

07/14/08: LAI Lean Academy� Short Course [PI.23s]

07/14/08

07/14/08: The LAI Lean Academy� Short Course is a 3-day version of the highly successful weeklong event created by the Lean Aerospace Initiative (LAI) Education Network http://lean.mit.edu/leanacademy. This course will provide a hands-on introduction to lean and six sigma fundamentals and is geared for those with little or no background in lean thinking.

Lean Thinking is the dynamic, knowledge-driven, and customer focused process through which all people in a defined enterprise continuously eliminate waste with the goal of creating value. More than ever, today's organizations need to operate in the most economical fashion, taking less time to create and deliver products while improving customer satisfaction. The term "lean" was coined by researchers in MIT's International Motor Vehicle Program to describe the production paradigm emerging from the Japanese automotive industry. However, lean thinking is not specific to the automotive or any other sector or operation. A lean enterprise, or production system, is one that eliminates waste and optimizes the value delivered to all of its stakeholders.

This class directly prepares participants for involvement in lean activities back in their jobs. Participants will be able to recognize the value and importance of lean to an organization's operations and identify opportunities for improvement back on their jobs. As a result of this class, participants will be able to contribute to improvement implementation projects in their own institution/government agency/industry operations.

Course: PI.23s Tuition: $2,100 CEUs: 2.5
Combined tuition for PI.211s/PI.23s or PI.221s/PI.23s is $2,950

Full course details at: http://web.mit.edu/mitpep/pi/courses/lean_academy_short_course.html

07/15/08: Real Estate Sustainability

07/15/08

07/15/08: John Macomber
a real estate investor,
a former commercial general contractor,
and a longtime adjunct lecturer at MIT.

This two day course is an intense look at the analytical tools around the concept of sustainable commercial real estate. Attendees will gain an understanding of what's real and what's not. Using MIT's unique combination of hard science and analytical rigor, we will examine:

What does the phrase "sustainable real estate" mean? Where does economic analysis point to best return on sustainability initiatives?

What are the key technologies that can enhance to real estate sustainability with respect to energy cost, greenhouse gas footprint, but also to other factors in addition to energy?

What is a rigorous analytical model for looking at the cost and benefits of investments in these initiatives? In particular, what has been learned about sustainability initiatives on a building by building basis or on a portfolio basis? In market segments ranging from industrial to apartment to office to hotel? In emerging economies and developed economies?

This course focuses on commercial real estate and on a rigorous look at what is enduring about the concept of sustainability.

Web site: http://shopcre.mit.edu/courserealestatemarketslocationproducttiming-1 -3.aspx

07/16/08: Demand-Driven Supply Chain Management [PI.20s]

07/16/08

07/16/08: Data-driven models for supply chain management enable its coordination with demand management at all levels of planning � strategic, tactical and operational. Case studies show how to identify plans that integrate supply chain, marketing and sales decisions to maximize net revenues and value.

Course: PI.20s Tuition: $1,250 CEUs: 1.0

Combined tuition for PI.15s/PI.20s is $2,250.

Full course details at: Course: 10.10s Tuition: $3,900 CEUs: 3.0

Full course details at: http://web.mit.edu/mitpep/pi/courses/challenges_leadership.html

07/21/08: Bioreactors and Bioprocessing [20.14s]

07/21/08

07/21/08: Especially designed for professionals new to the field of bioreactors and bioprocessing, this course will provide hands-on experience in upstream processing and focus on the selection, preparation and operation of bioreactors and instrumentation. Tutorials will be included on how to interpret the data commonly collected from bioreactor instrumentation.

Full course details:
http://web.mit.edu/mitpep/pi/courses/bioreactors_bioprocessing.html

Course: 20.14s Tuition: $4,200 CEUs: 4.0
Combined tuition for 20.14s/20.48s is $6,900
Combined tuition for 20.14s/20.45s is $6,900

07/21/08: Nanomaterials for Biological and Pharmaceutical Technologies [10.01s]

07/21/08

07/21/08: Overview of how nanomaterials such as nanoparticles, nanocapsules, micelles, microemulsions, liposomes, nanoporous materials, and polymer multilayers can be prepared, stabilized, surface-functionalized and assembled for applications in biotechnology, biomedicine, and pharmaceuticals. Specific applications include biosensing, drug delivery, imaging, bioseparations, biocatalysis, biomolecular assembly, and molecular diagnostics.

Full course details:
http://web.mit.edu/mitpep/pi/courses/nanomaterials_biological_pharmaceutical.html

Course: 10.01s Tuition: $3,000 CEUs: 3.0

07/22/08: Product Platform and Product Family Design: From Strategy to Implementation [ESD.39s]

07/22/08

07/22/08: Explore the strategic and implementation aspects of using product architecture and platforms to manage a product family in a competitive manner. Learn the latest theory and tools through case studies, interactive discussion and hands-on exercises.

Course: ESD.39s Tuition: $3,000 CEUs: 2.5

Combined tuition for 6.18s/ESD.39s is $5,800

Full course details at: http://web.mit.edu/mitpep/pi/courses/product_family_design.html

07/28/08: Combating Bioterrorism / Pandemics: Implementing Policies for Biosecurity [17.60s]

07/28/08

07/28/08: The threats of bioterrorism and global pandemics pose new challenges for public health, law enforcement and national security agencies. Yet agencies have deeply embedded professional norms and organizational cultures, which resist change. MIT experts and affiliates explore the obstacles to implementation and strategies to overcome them.

Course: 17.60s Tuition: $2,200 CEUs: 2.0

Full course details at: http://web.mit.edu/mitpep/pi/courses/combating_bioterrorism.html

07/28/08: Downstream Processing [20.45s]

07/28/08

07/28/08: An insightful overview of the fundamentals of downstream processing for biochemical product recovery. Offers practical examples and case studies to illustrate problems/solutions, along with small workshops on specific topics.

Full course details:
http://web.mit.edu/mitpep/pi/courses/downstream_processing.html

Course: 20.45s Tuition: $3,750 CEUs: 3.0
Combined tuition for 20.45s/20.48s is $6,600
Combined tuition for 20.14s/20.45s is $6,900

07/28/08: Systems Engineering, Architecture and Lifecycle Design: Principles, Models, Tools and Applications [6.18s]

07/28/08

07/28/08: This course combines theoretical foundations of systems engineering and architecture with practical hands-on to instill solid understanding of systems architecture and design principles. Systems architecture and engineering foundations are presented formally using Object-Process Methodology, while student teams model a system of their interest using a systems engineering and lifecycle support software environment.

Course: 6.18s Tuition: $3,200 CEUs: 3.5

Combined tuition for 6.18s/ESD.39s is $5,800

Full course details at: http://web.mit.edu/mitpep/pi/courses/systems_architecture.html

07/28/08: Cryptography and Computer Security [6.87s]

07/28/08

07/28/08: Discover how cryptography can be used to meet challenges posed by the internet. Covers encryption, authentication and key distribution, as well as the design of secure protocols for applications such as e-commerce and electronic elections.

Full course details:
http://web.mit.edu/mitpep/pi/courses/cryptography_computer_security.html

Course: 6.87s Tuition: $2,900 CEUs: 3.0

07/28/08: Digital Communication Networks [6.20s]

07/28/08

07/28/08: Ideal for practicing engineers and researchers looking to apply advanced design and performance evaluation techniques to digital networks. Covers communication subnetworks; and transport, internetwork, network, data link and physical layers. Learn how these layers operate and interact.

Full course details:
http://web.mit.edu/mitpep/pi/courses/digital_communication_networks.html

Course: 6.20s Tuition: $2,500 CEUs: 3.0
Combined tuition for 6.20s/6.33s is $4,500

07/28/08: Modeling and Simulation of Transportation Networks [1.10s]

07/28/08

07/28/08: An in-depth study of the world's most sophisticated transportation network models, including the theory and application of traffic performance, alternative traffic simulation methods, demand and user behavior, origin-destination flows estimation and prediction, dynamic traffic assignment, equilibrium methods, transit and schedule-based assignment, calibration and validation methods, real-time application, and dynamic traffic management systems. The course incorporates lectures, case studies and software demos about the design, evaluation and operation of transportation systems, and draws heavily from the results of recent research.

Full course details:
http://web.mit.edu/mitpep/pi/courses/simulation_transportation.html

Course: 1.10s Tuition: $2,700 CEUs: 3.0
Combined tuition for 1.10s/14.61s: $5,600

08/04/08: Fermentation Technology [20.48s]

08/04/08

08/04/08: This course emphasizes the application of biological and engineering principles to problems involving microbial, mammalian and biological/biochemical systems. The aims of the course are to review fundamentals and provide an up-to-date account of current knowledge in biological and biochemical technology with special emphases in mammalian cell systems. The lectures will emphasize and place perspectives on biological systems with industrial practices.

Full course details:
http://web.mit.edu/mitpep/pi/courses/fermentation_technology.html

Course: 20.48s Tuition: $3,750 CEUs: 3.5
Combined tuition for 20.14s/20.48s is $6,900
Combined tuition for 20.48s/20.45s is $6,600

08/04/08: Introduction to Network Coding [6.33s]

08/04/08

08/04/08: Network coding is a new area of networking, in which data is manipulated inside the network to improve throughput, reduce delay, and increase robustness. This field has recently found commerical applications in content distribution, peer-to-peer design, and enabling high-throughput wireless networks. The goal of this class is to provide participants with the theoretical and practical tools necessary not only to understand the field of network coding, but also to conduct independent, innovative work in the area. The curriculum reflects this mixture of theoretical foundations and practical approaches.

Full course details:
http://web.mit.edu/mitpep/pi/courses/network_coding.html

Course: 6.33s Tuition: $2,500 CEUs: 3.0
Combined tuition for 6.20s/6.33s is $4,500

08/04/08: Renewable Energy: Capturing the Sun [PI.70s]

08/04/08

08/04/08: This course will focus on sunlight, a sustainable and renewable carbon-neutral energy source. Science targeting efficient utilization of solar energy is inherently interdisciplinary, involving biology, inorganic and organic synthesis, solid state chemistry and physics, electrochemistry, chemical kinetics and mechanism, and theoretical and computational chemistry/biology. In addition, it involves concepts of homogeneous and interfacial science between solids, liquids, and gases. The course will focus on the science needed from these disciplines to develop the fundamental enabling science that will contribute to and ultimately lead to a solution of delivering clean energy, in the form of chemical fuels, produced from the sun.

Full course details:
http://web.mit.edu/mitpep/pi/courses/renewable_energy_sun.html

Course: PI.70s Tuition: $3,500 CEUs: 3.0

08/20/08: Hot-Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition (HWCVD, Cat-CVD)

08/20/08

08/20/08: Hot-Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition (HWCVD, also known as catalytic CVD, initiated CVD, and Hot Filament CVD) achieves superior properties in silicon (amorphous, micro- and nanocrystalline epi-, poly-), silicon alloys (nitrides, oxides, carbides), passivation coatings, thin film diamond, hard coatings, nanostructured carbon, carbon nanotubes, metal oxides, and polymers. Device applications of HWCVD films include transistors, solar dells, light emitting diodes, photosensors, organic devices, and micromechanical structures. Contributions using Hot-Wire chambers for dry etching, surface passivation, or chamber cleaning are also welcome. Common themes will be process fundamentals, apparatus, and technology transfer.

Past conferences have attracted approximately 150 attendees with high international participation. Proceedings of previous HWCVD conferences can be found in Thin Solid Films, Vol.395 (Sept. 2001), Vol. 430 (April 2003), and Vol. 501 (April 2006).

URL: http://web.mit.edu/hwcvd5/about.htm

09/01/08: MIT Closed - Labor Day

09/01/08

09/01/08:

09/11/08: Developing and Managing a Successful Technology and Product Strategy

09/11/08

09/11/08: It's not enough to have a great idea. If your R&D dollars are going to pay off in profitable products and technologies, you need a strategy that not only makes markets but also beats the competition.

Developing and Managing a Successful Technology and Product Strategy presents a depth of challenges that extend from R&D to manufacturing, engineering, project management, and new ventures. Where do you begin? How do you decide which projects are most likely to succeed and in which technologies to invest? How can you link your technology choices with your business choices?

Developing and Managing a Successful Technology and Product Strategy provides an innovative and powerful approach to developing technologies and products that people want to buy. Equally important, it explores ways to link those technologies and products with your company's business strategy. Drawn from the MIT Sloan School's top-ranked MBA curriculum, this groundbreaking program provides a framework for understanding how technologies and markets evolve, how they are linked, how technologies differ across markets, and how new technologies get accepted.

Participants will develop the skill to identify profitable projects for their research dollars and find out how to capture the value of those projects. They will learn how to build technical capabilities for products that create value for their customers and how to restructure their organizations to respond to market and technical dynamics. Most important, they will leave the program with the know-how to implement their strategies for maximum benefit.

Tuition: $2,600

Full program details at:
http://mitsloan.mit.edu/execed/coursedetails.php?id=483

09/15/08: Understanding and Solving Complex Business Problems

09/15/08

09/15/08: Change. Rapid, ever-accelerating, unpredictable change. It's a crucial dilemma facing all businesses today. Changes in technology, population, and economic activity are transforming the world, and the complexity of the systems in which we live is growing. But as complexity multiplies, so do the unanticipated side effects on humanity itself, further increasing complexity.

It's a vicious cycle that challenges even the most sophisticated managers. In fact, a senior executive's skill in dealing with fundamental change can actually dictate the success or failure of the organization.

"Systems thinking" is a response to the change dilemma. It is founded on the idea that increasingly, we must see the world as a complex system in which events are interconnected.

Systems thinking was devised to improve our ability to manage organizations comprehensively in a volatile global environment. It offers managers a framework for understanding complex situations and the dynamics those situations produce. Senior managers can use the system dynamics method to design policies that lead their organizations to high performance.

Understanding and Solving Complex Business Problems offers a new way of thinking about and resolving complex, persistent problems that emerge from change. Applying organization theory along with intuitive principles of feedback control, participants learn to:

* assess the likely impact of different policies and decisions that relate to their organization's growth, stability, and performance
* recognize business system archetypes that can trigger persistent, long-term problems
* use state-of-the-art management tools to identify relationships
* intervene effectively to make fundamental changes

In short, Understanding and Solving Complex Business Problems gives participants the skills and confidence to manage organizations with full understanding and solid strategy.

Tuition: $2,600

Full program details at:
http://mitsloan.mit.edu/execed/coursedetails.php?id=489

09/17/08: Managing Technical Professionals and Organizations

09/17/08

09/17/08: Technical professionals are a breed apart. Many of them consider autonomy more important than upward mobility. Because their goals and incentives are different, so are the management challenges they present.

Drawing on the wealth of research and industry experience of faculty and leading practitioners, Managing Technical Professionals and Organizations explores proven, practical, and innovative strategies for maximizing the contribution of technical professionals. This intensive program focuses on individual contributors and members of project teams, including cross-functional teams, and examines how to work effectively with "prima donnas" and independent spirits. Participants will learn principles and strategies of crucial importance to any organization where R&D, engineering, and/or computer-related technologies lie at the core of the business.

Managing Technical Professionals and Organizations explores seven critical topics:

* transferring technology between and within organizations
* developing effective reward and incentive systems for technical professionals
* creating a highly motivating work environment
* managing and leading creative individual contributors
* maximizing the technical productivity and vitality of teams
* creating the most effective physical structure for supporting innovation
* organizing for innovative product development

Tuition: $2,600

Full program details at:
http://mitsloan.mit.edu/execed/coursedetails.php?id=471

09/23/08: 2008 MIT Future of Mobility Conference

09/23/08

09/23/08:

10/13/08: MIT Closed - Columbus Day

10/13/08

10/13/08:

10/28/08: 2008 MIT Research and Development Conference

10/28/08

10/28/08:

11/09/08: Managing the Extended Supply Chain: Beyond Productivity and Efficiency

11/09/08

11/09/08: Globalization and technological innovation are driving the creation of the extended enterprise -- the dynamic network of interconnected organizations, from suppliers' suppliers to customers' customers, which work collaboratively to bring value to the marketplace. These new, customer-centric supply chains have accelerated the convergence of information flows, product flows, and payment flows, and are transforming the ways that companies produce goods and provide services.

Managing the Extended Supply Chain provides insight into these new ways of doing business. It moves beyond the linear thinking of incremental, short-term improvements in productivity and efficiency to address the longer-term, exponential changes that organizations must make in order to manage the complexity of today's fluid network of suppliers and customers. Based on the latest research at MIT and IMD focusing on companies achieving outstanding performance using innovative supply chain strategies, the program explores the optimization of value to the customer through carefully orchestrated collaborations, services, and linkages. Participants will leave the program armed with the knowledge of how to create new ways of doing business, improve outsourcing processes, design smarter interfaces, recognize opportunities for aftermarket services, develop mutually beneficial long-term relationships with customers and suppliers, and manage the internal changes necessary to make it all happen.

Program offered jointly with IMD.

Tuition: $9,300

Full program details at:
http://mitsloan.mit.edu/execed/coursedetails.php?id=502