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Paulo Ferrão
National Director
E-mail: paulo.ferrao@fct.mctes.pt
Claudia Oliveira
Coordination Office
E-mail: claudia.oliveira@fct.mctes.pt
Telephone: +351.213 924 488
M. Graça Pereira
Coordination Office
E-mail: graca.pereira@fct.mctes.pt
Telephone: +351.213 924 496
Josh Jacobs
Education Coordinator
E-mail: jsjacobs@mit.edu
Telephone: +351.213 924 375
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Dan Roos
Program Director
E-mail: roos@mit.edu
Renee Robins
Assistant Director (Research and Education)
E-mail: rrobins@mit.edu
Telephone: (617) 253-7662
Robin Lemp
Assistant Director (Finance and Administration)
E-mail: rlemp@mit.edu
Telephone: (617) 253-0127
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Manuel Nunes da Ponte
Professor, School of Sciences and Technology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
E-mail: mnp@dq.fct.unl.pt
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Dava Newman
Professor at MIT, Engineering Systems Division
E-mail: dnewman@mit.edu
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António Cunha
Professor, School of Engineering, University of Minho
E-mail: amcunha@dep.uminho.pt
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Joel Clark
Professor at MIT, Engineering Systems Division
E-mail: jpclark@mit.edu
Chris Magee
Professor at MIT, Engineering Systems Division
E-mail: cmagee@mit.edu
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Paulo Ferrão
Professor, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon
E-mail: paulo.ferrao@fct.mctes.pt
João Parente
Assistant Researcher, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon
E-mail: joao.parente@dem.ist.utl.pt
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David Marks
Professor at MIT, Engineering Systems Division
E-mail: dhmarks@mit.edu
Steve Connors
Professor at MIT, Engineering Systems Division
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José Viegas
Professor, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon
E-mail: viegas@civil.ist.utl.pt
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Joe Sussman
Professor at MIT, Engineering Systems Division
E-mail: sussman@mit.edu
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Paulo Ferrão
Professor, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon
E-mail: paulo.ferrao@fct.mctes.pt
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Dan Roos
Professor at MIT, Engineering Systems Division
E-mail: roos@mit.edu
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About the MIT-Portugal Program
Overview
The Portuguese Government, through the Ministry of Science, Technology and
Higher Education, is entering into a long-term collaboration with the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) focusing on basic research and education. The objectives,
framework and structure of the collaboration were developed during a five month assessment
study conducted by MIT between February and July 2006, which concluded that the excellence
of the research identified in Portuguese research centers throughout the assessment
exercise recommends that MIT foster collaborations with Portuguese institutions.
Also, the study acknowledges that the commitment of the Portuguese Government in
strengthening science and technology and in promoting international collaborations
in higher education and in science and technology is making Portugal an interesting
place for doing research and a relevant partner for future collaborations in the
emerging knowledge-based, globalized economy.
The Portuguese Government intends to strengthen the country’s knowledge base at an
international level through a strategic investment in people, knowledge and ideas
and the MIT-Portugal Program has been designed together with other international
partnerships with renowned research and education institutions worldwide to contribute
adequate funding to support the development of basic research and education and to foster
a set of new and diversified institutional partnerships. It should also be noted that the
goals of the overall operation include launching and promoting new research-based consortia
at a national level and the MIT-Portugal Program contributes for this effort by involving
10 schools of higher education and 7 different universities, together with a
large number of research centres and Associated Laboratories, as well as State Laboratories.
The assessment involved extensive discussions and preliminary planning by faculty at MIT
and in Portugal to determine the principle focus areas of investigation as well as key
institutional, operational, financial and technical issues, and has resulted in two main
foci for collaborative agreements. These are:
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a formal, ongoing cooperative arrangement in the area of management sciences which
will be explored in a program design and planning process concerning a possible multi-year
collaboration around management education and technology-based entrepreneurship; and
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a five-year agreement for research and education with an engineering systems focus,
responding to the increasing size, scope and complexity of systems in today’s global
competitive environment.
Assessment of an MIT-Portugal Collaboration
Program Overview
Management Sciences
The cooperative arrangement in the area of management sciences will be conducted at
MIT through the Sloan School of Management (MIT Sloan)
to work with leading schools in Portugal, fostering new horizons for transatlantic
collaboration in management science and technology-based entrepreneurship in a way
oriented towards the goals of the revisited Lisbon strategy for competitiveness and
employment in Europe. The specific objectives for the first year include:
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jointly develop a global MBA program aimed at attracting students from Portugal
and other nations, in a way to strengthen the international reputation and
visibility of business education in Portugal;
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jointly develop a "Sloan-Lisbon Seminar Series on Management Science" in order to
strengthen PhD management education and help building national and international
relationships and research consortia; and
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jointly develop a mid-career program in technology-based entrepreneurship.
The program will involve MIT Sloan and Portuguese faculty and visiting appointments
at MIT will enrich the collaboration.
Following the MIT’s assessment report of July 2006, the design of the global MBA
program will be led by the School of Economics and Business at the Portuguese Catholic
University (FCEE/UCP) and the School of Economics at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa
(FE/UNL) and will also involve faculty of ISCTE Business School (ISCTE) and of the
School of Economics and Management at the Technical University of Lisbon (ISEG/UTL).
Three seminars will be arranged for the academic year 2006/07 with active participation
of MIT faculty. The four schools mentioned above will jointly arrange the Seminar Series
in close collaboration with MIT Sloan.
A mid-career program in technology-based entrepreneurship will be planned, following
the MIT assessment study conducted during the period February-July 2006.
The program governance structure includes a Program Governing Committee, responsible
for policy oversight with respect to overall objectives of the relationship, and
Operating Committees for the activities planned.
Engineering Systems
The collaboration focused on engineering systems gives emphasis to large-scale
systems that not only have critical technological components, but also have
significant enterprise and socio-technical level interactions that call for
engineers in leadership positions to have training in engineering systems that goes
beyond traditionally defined engineering disciplines.
The program will be coordinated at MIT by the Engineering Systems Division, and will
include collaborations with various other departments, divisions, and schools at MIT.
The following specific fields were identified as the initial focus areas for the MIT
Portugal collaboration, on top of which an integrative anchor program
(in engineering systems) will be developed:
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Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing: This focus area emphasizes the
development of design as a key academic field. This is aimed at enabling the
development of a cadre of innovative leaders who are educated not only in the
fundamental elements of technology management and design, but also trained in
the practical exploitation of those core skills in the formation and leadership
of knowledge-based creative enterprises. There will be particular emphasis in
the automotive and aeronautic sectors, as well as in medical devices.
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Transportation Systems: The ultimate goal of this area is to promote the
design and operation of integrated, technology-intensive, intermodal transportation
systems, considering the integration of intelligent transportation systems (ITS),
the high-speed rail system and airport infrastructures.
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Energy Systems: Extending far beyond traditional energy research, this area
will focus on the dynamics among energy services and supplies, including opportunities
for developing combined heat and power and incorporating renewables in the
distribution network.
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Bio-Engineering Systems: Efforts in this focus area will build on the
research capacity existing in Portugal and develop emerging aspects of bio-engineering,
cell and tissue engineering, and bioprocess and computational biology.
A number of joint
research and educational projects will be undertaken in each focus area involving
participants from both Portugal and MIT. Educational programs will vary for each focus
area and will consist of a mix of doctoral programs, professionally-oriented master
degrees, and short courses. Faculty will be encouraged to make new educational
material publicly available, namely making use of Creative Commons licensing.
At MIT, OpenCourseWare will be used.
An integrative anchor program will feature research and curriculum development led by the
Engineering Systems Division. Research addressing fundamental
issues in engineering systems such as complexity, uncertainty, large-scale system architecture,
security, and sustainability will cut across the Focus Areas, providing coherence around
emerging themes. Related curriculum development efforts on methodologies and fundamental system
concepts will provide materials that could be used in education programs in different
focus areas. A video-conference seminar series will help sustain a cross-Atlantic
research community of interested scholars and educators.
The program will involve MIT and Portuguese faculty, graduate students, post-doctoral
associates and research staff. Visiting appointments of faculty at MIT and in
Portuguese institutions will enrich the collaboration. Portuguese graduate
students will spend time at MIT as visiting students and Portuguese students
will be encouraged to apply to MIT for graduate degrees. The collaboration
will involve opportunities for a significant number of professionals.
To develop the program in Portuguese institutions it is expected, besides
the involvement of their faculty, the establishment of new contracts with
invited professors and postdoctoral researchers with recognized merit
in international basis, in a way that reinforces their education and
research capability, involving a total of around 14 new professorships
and 18 post-docs annually in the program. The program will also involve
around 35 new graduate students and 80 new professional master students
annually in Portuguese institutions.
The program envisages the collaboration of students, researchers and
professors of Portuguese institutions with research teams at MIT,
where the "Portugal Program at MIT" will be developed, involving
around 38 professors, 15 post-docs and 46 graduate
students at MIT annually. MIT will also be available to receive
up to 33 graduate students and 15 researchers/professors
from Portuguese institutions visiting MIT each year. All MIT professors,
researchers and PhD students will have a co-affiliation with a
Portuguese Institution.
The anticipated total public budget for the first 5 years of the
MIT-Portugal partnership in engineering systems amounts to
around 65 Million Euros (82 Million USD), from which 33 Million Euros
are to fund activities at MIT (41 M.USD) and 32 Million Euros are
public funding to Portuguese institutions. In addition, private
funding will be used to support activities in industrial affiliates
and to support advanced professional education programs.
Annual Plans
The specific activities to be undertaken by MIT and the Portuguese
consortia will be specified in Annual Plans. Since the projects
involve both MIT and Portuguese institutions, the successful execution
of joint activities will require each side to carry out their
contractual responsibilities. The MIT Annual Plan will focus on
those activities that MIT will undertake, while the Portuguese Annual
Plan will focus on the activities by all the Portuguese institutions
involved in each Focus Area. The Portuguese organizations involved
in the MIT-Portugal Collaboration explicitly acknowledge their
institutional commitment to the overall program and the specific
activities in the Annual Plan by means of a written commitment,
on which MIT may rely, to participate in the MIT-Portugal Collaboration
through collaborations with MIT in the Focus Areas. These commitments
specify how each institution will contribute to the overall program
in general and specified projects in particular.
Governance
The program governance structure includes a
Program Governing Committee
responsible for policy oversight with respect to overall objectives of
the relationship as well as approval of the annual plan and budget
allocation for the proposed activities in the annual plan; a Program
Operating Committee responsible for developing and initially approving
annual plans in the focus areas; and an External Review Committee
which will review and comment on the Annual Plan, and evaluate the
Program based on the specified Program objectives.
The Program Governing Committee and Program Operating Committee will,
simultaneously with their respective review and approval of MIT's
Annual Plan, apply the same review and approval process to the Annual
Plan of the Portuguese institutions that are committing to collaborate
with MIT on a project or program.
The External Review Committee, which will meet at least twice each year,
consists of distinguished external
advisors with expertise in the Focus Areas and will have an important
role in the development of the program. Their independent review will
include recommendations about alterations in the Annual Plan and budget
to support achievement of the overall objectives of the MIT-Portugal
Collaboration.
Industrial Affiliates
Each of the thematic focus areas will involve a new companion effort,
MIT-Portugal Industrial affiliates” with the goal of fostering new research
consortia in collaboration with MIT, leading to new frontiers of transatlantic
collaboration in science and technology. EDAM will launch the first affiliates
program with a set of leading companies in the automotive sector,
including VW AutoEuropa, the largest car assembler in Portugal, and major
auto-parts manufacturers, as listed in
Industrial Affiliates
on the home page.
Leadership
The MIT Program Director is Daniel Roos, Professor and Founding Director
of the Engineering Systems Division. The Portuguese Program Director
is Paulo Ferrão, Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical
University of Lisbon. Both will be assisted by a team of joint
coordinators for each focus area, as follows:
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Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing, EDAM:
- Joel Clark and Chris Magee, Professors at MIT, Engineering Systems Division
- António Cunha, Professor, School of Engineering, University of Minho
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Energy Systems:
- David Marks and Steve Connors, Professors at MIT, Engineering Systems Division
- Paulo Ferrão, Professor, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon
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Transportation Systems:
- Joe Sussman, Professor at MIT, Engineering Systems Division
- José M. Viegas, Professor, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon
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Bioengineering Systems:
- Dava Newman, Professor at MIT, Engineering Systems Division
- Manuel Nunes da Ponte, Professor, School of Sciences and Technology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
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Governance
Governance
Engineering Systems
The Collaboration will be based on a contractual arrangement
between MIT and the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (FCT).
FCT will include a "Director of the MIT-Portugal Program" who reports
to the FCT President and who will direct all of the activities that
FCT agrees to undertake and/or support with MIT. The Portugal Program at MIT
will be led by an MIT faculty member who serves as "Director" and will
typically hold an appointment in the Engineering Systems Division,
which is serving as the lead unit at MIT.
The program governance structure includes a Program Governing Committee responsible
for policy oversight with respect to overall objectives of the relationship
as well as approval of the annual plan and budget allocation for the
proposed activities in the annual plan; a Program Operating Committee
responsible for developing and initially approving annual plans in the focus
areas; and a External Review Committee which will review and comment on the
Annual Plan, and evaluate the Program based on the specified Program
objectives. The Program Governing Committee and Program Operating
Committee will, simultaneously with their respective review and approval
of MIT’s annual plan, apply the same review and approval process to
the annual plan of each Portuguese institution that is committing to
collaborate with MIT on a project or program.
The following figure shows a schematic of the program governance structure.
MIT-Portugal Collaboration Program Governing Committee
The membership of the Program Governing Committee consists of a six-member "Program
Governing Committee" having the following membership:
- The President of the Foundation, or his representative, who will chair the Program Governing Committee;
- One representative of the Ministry of Science and Technology and Higher Education of Portugal;
- The Director of the Portugal Program at MIT;
- The Director of the MIT-Portugal Program at the Foundation;
- Two representatives of MIT’s senior administration, as determined individually by MIT (individually, a "Senior MIT Administrator" and collectively, the "Senior MIT Administrators") and
- The Director of the Portugal Program at MIT and the Director of the MIT-Portugal Program at the Foundation will comprise an "Executive Subcommittee" to assist the Program Governing Committee.
The membership of the Program Governing Committee as of the commencement of the Collaboration is elaborated in the following table.
| The President of FCT (Chair) |
João Sentieiro, President of the FCT or his representative |
| One representative of the Ministry of Science and Technology and Higher Education of Portugal |
Luís Magalhães, President of UMIC – Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento |
| The Director of the Portugal Program at MIT (Executive Subcommittee) |
Daniel Roos, Professor and Founding Director, MIT Engineering Systems Division |
| The Director of the MIT-Portugal Program at the Foundation (Executive Subcommittee) |
Paulo Manuel Cadete Ferrao, Associate Professor at Instituto Superior Tecnico, Technical University of Lisbon and Director, Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research (also PT lead for Energy Systems) |
| Two representatives of MIT’s senior administration |
Phillip Clay, Chancellor, MIT
Thomas Magnanti, Dean, MIT School of Engineering |
The MIT-Portugal Collaboration Operating Committee
The membership of the Operating Committee consists of:
- The Director of the Portugal Program at MIT, who shall also be the chair of the Program Operating Committee;
- The Director of the MIT-Portugal Program at the Foundation;
- The MIT faculty members who are leading each of the Focus Areas in the Portugal Program at MIT who shall be appointed by MIT; and
- Selected individuals from Portuguese universities and other entities who are leading each of the Focus Areas in the MIT-Portugal Program run by the Foundation in Portugal, who are collaborating with the MIT leaders of the Focus Areas and whose institutions are participating in the Portuguese consortium, who shall be appointed by the Foundation.
The membership of the Operating Committee as of the commencement of the Collaboration is elaborated in the following table.
| Director of the Portugal Program at MIT (Chair) |
Daniel Roos, Professor and Founding Director, MIT Engineering Systems Division |
| Director of the MIT-Portugal Program at the Foundation |
Paulo Manuel Cadete Ferrao, Associate Professor at Instituto Superior Tecnico, Technical University of Lisbon and Director, Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research (also PT lead for Energy Systems) |
| MIT faculty members who are leading each of the Focus Areas |
Joel Clark, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Engineering Systems (EDAM-Manufacturing)
Christopher Magee, Professor of the Practice of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Systems (EDAM-Design)
David Marks, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems and Director, Laboratory for Energy and the Environment (Energy Systems)
Joseph Sussman, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems (Transportation Systems)
Dava Newman, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems, and Director, Technology and Policy Program (Bio-engineering Systems)
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| Selected individuals from Portuguese universities and other entities who are leading each of the Focus Areas in the MIT-Portugal Program |
Antonio Cunha, Full Professor, Dean of the School of Engineering, University of Minho, and co-Director of CEIA, the Center for Excellence and Innovation in the Auto-industry (EDAM Focus Area Leader)
António Torres Marques*, Full Professor, School of Engineering, University of Porto (EDAM)
Eduardo Oliveira Fernandes*, Professor, School of Engineering, University of Porto (Energy)
José M. Viegas, Professor, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon (Transportation Systems Focus Area Leader)
Manuel Nunes da Ponte, Full Professor, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Former Director of ITQB (Bio-engineering Systems Focus Area Leader)
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* Affiliated to the Program, but not Focus Areas Leaders
Governance
Management Sciences
The coordination of the responsabilities of the schools in Portugal during the initial phase of the collaboration is managed and governed through a Governing Board, with the assistance of a Program Operating Committee for designing the Global MBA Program, a Scientific Committee for organizing and promoting the Lisbon-Sloan Seminar Series in Management Science, and a Program Operating Committee for designing the Program in Technology-based Entrepreneurship. These committees have been established to facilitate the relationship among and clarification of communications from the Schools involved.
| Governing Board |
Fernando Branco (MIT-Portugal Program Director)
José Neves Adelino (FE-Nova), Chairman
Paul Osterman (MIT-Sloan)
Richard Locke (MIT-Sloan)
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| Program Operating Committee of the Global MBA Program |
Fernando Branco (MIT-Portugal Program Director)
Jonathan Lehrich (MIT- Sloan)
José Corrêa Guedes (FCEE-Católica)
José Neves Adelino (FE-Nova)
Richard Locke (MIT-Sloan)
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| Program Operating Committee of the Program in Technology-based Entrepreneurship |
Carlos Lucas de Freitas (IST)
Fernando Branco (MIT-Portugal Program Director)
Jonathan Lehrich (MIT- Sloan)
Miguel Pina e Cunha (FE-Nova)
Pedro Oliveira (FCEE-Católica)
Richard Locke (MIT-Sloan)
Rui Baptista (IST)
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| Scientific Committee of the Lisbon-Sloan Seminar Series in Management Science |
Fernando Branco (MIT-Portugal Program Director)
João Duque (ISEG-UTL)
José Mata(FE-Nova)
Miguel Ferreira (ISCTE)
Richard Locke (MIT-Sloan)
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An Advisory Board has been established consisting of representatives of the Portuguese Schools and MIT-Sloan. The advisory board fosters communication between the parties about matters relating to this collaboration. The members of the advisory board serve as representatives of the parties who are accountable to meeting the objectives established for this collaboration.
| Advisory Board |
António Gomes Mota (ISCTE)
António Mendonça (ISEG-UTL)
Eduardo Catroga (SAPEC)
Fátima Barros (FCEE-Católica)
Francisco Fróis (CRA)
Joaquim Goes (BES)
João Sentieiro (FCT)
José Barroso (BDO)
José Ferreira Machado (FE-Nova)
José Furtado (IAPMEI)
Luís Nazaré (CTT)
Nuno Fernandes Thomaz (Nutrinveste)
Paul Osterman, Chairman (MIT-Sloan)
Rahool Panandiker (BCG)
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MIT Professors in Portuguese high schools
During the next five years, "Ciência Viva"
(Lively Science) will take professors of the MIT (Massachussetts Institute of Technology)
to high schools.
The first session of this initiative took place on November 16th, at 10h30.
David Marks, Co-Director of the MIT and Steve Connors, both of the Laboratory of
Energy and Environment of the MIT, gave a lecture in the High School of Amadora,
where students and professors responsible for "Ciência Viva" projects in the area
of the renewable energies also participated.
The pupils of the Basic School D. Francisco Manuel de Melo will also have the
opportunity to show their hand-made constructions based on solar energy. The
next session will be in charge of Dava Newman, MIT Professor in the area of
Bioengineering, and will take place on November 21, during the Week dedicated
to Science and Technology.
Location
http://www.esec-amadora.rcts.pt/
Contact
Rosalia Vargas
Tel: 218917100
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MIT-Portugal Program meets the high school of Amadora
During the next five years, the MIT-Portugal Program, in association with “Ciência Viva” will take professors of the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) to high schools in Portugal. The first session of this initiative took place on November 16th, at 10h30, at the Basic School D. Francisco Manuel de Melo, at Amadora.
The session objectives and the Portuguese context were provided by Dr. Rosália Vargas, the “Ciência Viva” Program Director and by Prof. Paulo Ferrão, the MIT-Portugal Program Director.
The MIT faculty, David Marks, Co-Director of the MIT Laboratory for Energy and Environment and Steve Connors, gave a lecture on renewable energies, in a session that has attracted more than 300 students, who raised a great number of questions and promoted an enthusiastic debate on the future of the renewable energies in Portugal.
During the session, David Marks and Stephen Connors interacted, giving a dynamic to the answers and making it agreeable and relaxing. At the end, the applauses were not only for the MIT Professors who found this initiative stimulating, but also to the students, who have demonstrated to be very proficient and interested in learning more about science and technology.
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Workshop on Sustainable Energy Systems
On November 17th, a Workshop on Sustainable Energy Systems was organized at the premises of EFACEC in Carnaxide.
Energy security and long-term environmental management were only two of the many emerging challenges discussed in the session, including renewable energies and energy efficiency, which can be highly beneficial to Portuguese, EU, and other stakeholders.
It was concluded that the MIT-Portugal Program should contribute to increase energy efficiency at a National level, by educating the future leaders that may design new energy systems tailored to fulfil the nation’s specific needs for energy services. These efforts, aimed at the long-term transformation of the energy infrastructure also include such issues as ageing infrastructure components, shifting investment responsibilities under competitive energy markets, and the need to identify—and protect—vulnerable energy system nodes and modes. In additional to novel, detailed, and transferable knowledge on future sustainable energy systems, society and industry will need top level educated individuals in these areas.
Therefore, it was concluded that a Workshop on these subjects is utterly convenient as a starting point for this effort. This event took place in EFACEC and was also jointly organized with ProForum. The number of participations exceeded 150 representatives from companies, academia and R&D; institutions.
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MIT-Portugal Program meets high school Emídio Navarro – Almada
Following the MIT-Portugal Program and Ciência Viva’s initiative “MIT meets schools”, Professor Dava Newman gave a lecture on Human Space flight. The presentation included simulators, astronauts’ suits and all sort of subjects concerning Space were discussed during this session.
The session was stimulating and interactive, as a volunteer from the audience dressed the astronaut suit, which Dava had designed.
At the end, the MIT Professor still tried to answer the many questions, which, by lack of time, were left without an answer.
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External Review Committee Members
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Prof. Roland Clift
Enginneering Systems
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Prof. Nick Oliver
EDAM (Enginnering Design and Advanced Manufacturing
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Dr. Robert Skinner
Transportation Systems
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Prof. César Dopazo
Sustainable Energy Systems
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Prof. Peter Cavanagh
Bio-Enginnering Systems
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Prof. Henk Sol
Prof.dr. Henk G. Sol, born in 1951, graduated in 1974 "cum laude" from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, with a MSc in Operations Research and Information Systems. He obtained a Ph.D. "cum laude" from the University of Groningen on the subject of ‘Simulation in Information Systems Development’ in 1982.
He was involved in the development and control of a Masters Program in Information Systems within the School of Economics and Management Science of the University of Groningen from 1974 to 1984.
Prof. Sol became a chaired professor of ‘Information Systems Development’ at Delft University of Technology in 1984, where he developed the Department of Information Systems to one of the leading Information Engineering Schools in Europe.
From 1992 – 1998 he was founding Dean of the new School for Engineering, Policy Analysis and Management. He prepared the merger, in 1998, into the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management.
In 1992 Prof. Sol was appointed as Chaired Professor of ‘Systems Engineering’ at Delft University of Technology.
In 1999 Prof.Sol was appointed as Scientific Director of Delft Institute for Information Technology in Service Engineering and of the Airport Development Center.
From 2000 tot 2003 Prof.Sol was again Dean of the Faculty of Technology, Policy & Management and Chaired Professor of Systems Engineering, in particular Business Engineering and ICT.
His research focuses on the development of services enabled by ICT, management information systems, decision support systems and telematics. Currently his research interest shifts towards designing information-intensive, innovative organizations. He is a well-known author with a few hundred publications in these fields.
Under his responsibility 50 Ph.D. dissertations were finished.
Prof. Sol organized numerous international conferences and workshops and gave a great many invited presentations.
He serves on the editorial roles with journals as Decision Support Systems, Electronic Journal of E-commerce, Organizational Science, Communications of AIS and Information and Management.
He is member of IFIP TC 8, W.G. 8.1, 8.2, 8.4 and various other professional organizations. He received the IFIP Outstanding Service Award as well as the IFIP Silver Core.
He is one of the founding fathers of AIS and one of its first vice-presidents.
He has acted as a management consultant for a large range of national and international organizations since 1972. He is chairman/member of the (Supervisory) Board of Directors of several companies.
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Prof. Roland Clift
Roland Clift is Distinguished Professor of Environmental Technology and Founding Director of the Centre for Environmental Strategy (CES). His research specialisation is in the broad field of Environmental System Analysis, including Life Cycle Assessment, Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Energy Systems.
Prior to his present appointment, Professor Clift was Head of the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Surrey for 10 years. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and of the Royal Society of Arts, and an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Waste and Environmental Management. He is also Visiting Professor in Environmental System Analysis at Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden and a Director of the Merrill Lynch New Energy Technologies investment trust. In 2005 he completed a 9 year term as a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, and acted as Expert Adviser to an enquiry by the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee in “Energy Efficiency”. In 2006,he begins appointment as a member of the Science Advisory Council of the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). He is a past member of the UK Ecolabelling Board, and of the Royal Society/Royal Academy Working Group set up at the instigation of the Department of Trade and Industry to examine, inter alia, the risk and regulatory issues raised by nanotechnology.
In 1994 Professor Clift was awarded an OBE for his services to science and technology. In 2003 he was recognised as a Distinguished Professor by the University of Surrey and also received the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Sir Frank Whittle Medal “for outstanding and sustained engineering achievement contributing to the well being of the nation”. Professor Clift was honoured in the 2006 New Year's Honours as a Commander of the British Empire (C.B.E.) for his services to the environment.
Selected Recent Publications:
Clift, R. (2006) Climate Change and Energy Policy: The Importance of Sustainability Arguments, Energy, 32, pp.262-268.
Clift, R. (2006) Sustainable development and its implications for chemical engineering. Chemical Engineering Science, 61, pp 4179-4187.
“Sustainable Development in Practice – case studies for engineers and scientists”; ed. A. Azapagic, S. Perdan and R. Clift, John Wiley and Sons (2004).
“Slurry Transport using Centrifugal Pumps”, 3rd ed.; K. C. Wilson, G. R. Addie, A. Sellgren and R. Clift, Springer-Verlag (2005).
“Bubbles, Drops and Particles”; R. Clift, J. R. Grace and M. E. Weber, Academic Press (1978), republished by Dover (2005).
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Prof. Nick Oliver
Projects
Enterprise and Innovation
New Product Development Performance in the UK and Japanese Automotive Industries
The Learning Factory
Professor of Management, Judge Institute
CMI Professional Practice
Personal Background
MA (Edinburgh), PhD (Open). Researcher, Open University Systems Group 1981-85; Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour, Cardiff Business School 1985-92; joined the Judge Institute, Cambridge University, 1992; currently Professor of Management at the Judge Institute. He has led a series of international benchmarking studies in the automotive industry, looking at both product development and manufacturing performance.
Publications
Delbridge, R., Lowe, J. and Oliver, N. (2000) 'Shopfloor responsibilities under lean team working.' Human Relations, Vol 53, No 11, pp 1459-1479.
Oliver, N., Ikeda, M., Nakagawa, Y. and Primost, D. (2001) 'Trends in production and product development in the Japanese automotive industry.'International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management, Vol 1, No 1, pp 53-60.
Anderson, J. and Oliver, N. (2001) 'Collaberative new product development in multi-customer context: challenges for Western auto component suppliers.' International Journal of Vehicle Design, Vol 25, No 4. pp 261-274
Oliver, N. and Delbridge, R. (2002) 'The Characteristics of High Performing Supply Chains.' International Journal of Technology Management. Vol 23, No 1/2/3. pp 60-73.
Kerrin, M. and Oliver, N. (2002) 'Collective and individual improvement activities: the role of reward systems.'Personnel Review Vol 31, No 3, pp 320-337.
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Dr. Robert E. Skinner, Jr.
Robert Skinner has been the Executive Director of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering since 1994. TRB is a non-profit organization that promotes transportation innovation by sponsoring professional meetings and publications, administering applied research programs, and conducting policy studies. It serves as an independent adviser to the federal government and others on scientific and technical questions of national importance.
the staff director for congressionally mandated studies. He has overseen studies on a diverse range of topics including highway design, highway safety, truck size and weight regulations, high-speed passenger rail, maritime transportation policies, and airline deregulation.
Prior to joining TRB in 1983, Mr. Skinner was a Vice President of Alan M. Voorhees and Associates, a transportation consulting firm, for which he managed the firm's activities in the eastern United States.
Mr. Skinner earned his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Virginia in 1969 with high distinction. He earned a master’s degree in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971. A registered professional engineer, Mr. Skinner received the James Laurie Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Prof. César Dopazo
PhD Aeronautical Engineer by the Polytechnical University of Madrid (1977). PhD Mechanical Engineer by the University of the State of New York (1973). University professor of Mechanics of Fluids of Centro Politécnico Superior (CPS) of the University of Zaragoza (UZ) from 1981 and Director of the Research laboratory in Technologies of Combustio'n (LITEC), Mixed Center CSIC/UZ/DGA. Director of the Department of Science and Technology of Fluids Materials and of the UZ (1990- 1992 and 1997-1999).
Student Graduated at the University of the State of New York (1970-1973), postdoctoral Investigator in that same University (1974) and in John Hopkins (1974-1975). Visitor Professor of the University of the State of New York (1977) and of the Independent National University of Mexico (UNAM) (1995), as well as Invited Professor of the University of California in Davis (1989), of the University of Southern California (1989) and of the École Centrale de Lyon (1993).
Between 1978 and 1980, Engineer of Departamento Técnico-Económico de Unidad Eléctrica, S.A. (UNESA), company in which he has acted like Consultant from 1980 to 1987. He has been Advisor of the Brookhaven National Laboratory (1979-1985) and of the United Technologies Corporation (USA) (1991-1992).
His activities in investigation and technological development are centered in the fields of the combustion, turbulent flows with chemical reaction, two-phase flows, atomization, industrial dispersion of polluting agents and, in general, aerodynamics and hydrodynamics. In those fields he has managed Projects of R&D; in National and European Programs (JOULE) as well as industrial Contracts of development and demonstration in the Power Sector. He has coordinated Projects BRITE/EURAM Program (1993-1998) on aero engines of low emissions, with participation of several universities and companies (Rolls Royce, BMW-RR, SNECMA, VOLVO Alpha Romeo Avio, MTU, Turbomeca, etc.). His work is refered to in several doctoral theses, numerous publications in international scientific and technological magazines and presentations in congresses.
He has organized several international congresses in the fields of R&D; and he is a member of scientific and organizing committees, international conferences and symposiums. He is evaluator of several international scientific magazines and belongs to the publishing committee of some of them. He has organized conferences and lectured courses in Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, USA and Europe.
He has been a member of the Direction Committee of the École Centrale de Lyon (1984), vowel of the Advisory Council of Investigación (CONAI) of the General Delegation of Aragón (1984- 1990), Coordinator of the Area of Mechanical and Textile Engineering of the National Agency of Evaluación and Prospectiva (ANEP) (1986-1988), vowel of Group V for the reform of curricula of technical lessons (1987-1988), Advisor of the Secretariat of State of Universities and Investigación (SEUI) (1986-1987) in the Project ODIN of super-computing, Delegate of the Ministry of Education and Science in the Committee of Management and Coordination of BRITE/EURAM Program of the European Union (1986-1987) and vowel (Vice-rector) of the Managing Commission of the University Carlos III of Madrid (1990). Spanish representative of the Ministry of Science and Technology in the Global Forum of the Science of the O.C.D.E. (2001-).
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Prof. Peter Cavanagh
Peter R. Cavanagh, Ph.D., D.Sc. (Med.) is the Virginia Lois Kennedy Chairman of Biomedical Engineering at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (CCF). He came to CCF in 2002 from Pennsylvania State University, where he was Distinguished Professor of Kinesiology, Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Medicine and Behavioral Health.
Dr. Cavanagh’s involvement with space life sciences began in 1987, when he worked on a research project involving the shuttle treadmill with physician-astronaut William Thornton. He subsequently consulted for NASA on a number of issues related to exercise countermeasures. In 1989 Dr. Cavanagh received a grant from NASA to develop a zero-gravity locomotion simulator. He was subsequently appointed as co-chair of the Musculoskeletal Committee of the Human Research Facility Science Working Group (HRF SWG). This team was responsible for the identification and specification of biomechanics and exercise physiology hardware that has since been installed in the HRF racks on the International Space Station. In 1996 Cavanagh was awarded a NASA Life and Microgravity Sciences grant to study the biomechanics of exercise countermeasures. He worked closely with NASA and Lockheed Martin in the evaluation of the treadmill vibration isolation system (TVIS). This involved designing an experiment that flew on STS 84, and he also traveled to Moscow on behalf of NASA headquarters to help successfully negotiate the installation of the TVIS aboard the Russian segment of the International Space Station. In 1998 Dr. Cavanagh was selected as a principal investigator for a flight experiment aboard the International Space Station to explore the relationship between lower-extremity action in space and the loss of bone and muscle. For the last five years, he has worked with a team of NASA engineers in the development of hardware, software, and crew training procedures. This activity culminated in the successful collection of data from the first subject on Expedition 6 on Christmas Eve 2002. This experiment is scheduled to continue through the next several ISS increments.
Dr. Cavanagh is also chairman of the Science Council for the Division of Space Life Sciences of the Universities Space Research Association (USRA). Amongst his other space-related activities, Dr. Cavanagh presented the 2001 DB Dill lecture to the American College of Sports Medicine on the topic of The History of Life Science in Medicine in Space.
He has published a number of articles related to space life science. In 2003, Dr. Cavanagh was invited to join the NASA Reinvention Committee and also the advisory group to examine the provision of longduration medical care on the International Space Station. He has appeared on National Public Radio, commenting on the decision to launch the increment 8 crew to the ISS and has participated in the NASA TV program Increment 6 science update.
He holds several grants focusing on bone loss in simulated and actual microgravity. In February 2004, he was appointed Team Leader of the Bone Loss Team of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, which involves not only setting priorities for space research on bone loss but also interacting with both experts and the lay public on the advances coming from such directed funding. In October 2004, Dr. Cavanagh was appointed Co-Director of the newly established Center for Space Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic.
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