From mit.world at MIT.EDU  Wed Sep  9 06:44:28 2009
From: mit.world at MIT.EDU (MIT World)
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 06:44:28 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] Vest on Engineering Education,
	Hikosaka on the Brain and Reward
Message-ID: <200909091044.n89AiSjJ024108@mrkrabs.mit.edu>

MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 1 |  September 9, 2009

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Grand Challenges and Engineering Systems: Inspiring and Educating the Next Generation
June 15, 2009

In the opening keynote of the Second International Engineering Systems Symposium,
Charles Vest warns that the U.S. lags dangerously far behind other nations in graduating 
engineers. Redesigning college-level engineering programs won?t be enough to meet the 
?grand challenges? posed by our times, if more children can?t be inspired to study engineering.


http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/696

Speakers:
Daniel Roos '61, SM '63, PhD '66
Japan Steel Industry Professor of Engineering Systems and Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dr. Susan Hockfield
MIT President
Professor of Neuroscience

Charles Vest HM
President, National Academy of Engineering
President Emeritus, MIT


Event Host:
Engineering Systems Division

"What?s important in engineering education? Making universities and engineering schools exciting, 
creative, adventurous, rigorous, demanding and empowering environments is more important than 
specifying curricular details -- that?s what I learned at MIT."
-Charles Vest

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How the Brain Encodes Reward
May 7, 2009

Hikosaka has deepened and broadened his work on the basal ganglia, and brings a McGovern audience up to date on his latest discoveries.


http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/701

Speaker:
Okihide Hikosaka
Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research

National Eye Institute

National Institute of Health 
 


Event Host:
McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT

"We know there are many brain areas that project to dopamine neuron areas, but which are 
critical for providing dopamine neurons with reward or motivation value signals?
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-Okihide Hikosaka

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In The Pipeline:

Neural Basis of Drug Addiction

Presented By:
McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
 The Basal Ganglia in Health and Disease

Speaker:
Barry Everitt
Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience
Department of Experimental Psychology
University of Cambridge

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MIT Conference on Systems Thinking for Contemporary Challenges
Addressing Complexity in Healthcare, Energy, Space, and the Environment<BR><BR>October 22-23, 2009 at MIT						

http://sdm.mit.edu/conf09

Sponsored by the MIT System Design and Management Program 

Register now to join MIT faculty and industry leaders who will discuss best practices for applying systems 
thinking to some of the most complex challenges facing today's world. 

Hear Lawrence Willey, Wind Conceptual Design, GE Infrastructure, discuss 
<i>Gigawatt Wind Power: Supporting U.S. 20 Percent Wind Generation by 2030</i>. 
The presentation will show how technical, managerial and social issues are 
considered at all levels of power system design.


http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?eventid=742938

http://sdm.mit.edu/conf09

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From mit.world at MIT.EDU  Tue Sep 15 17:18:31 2009
From: mit.world at MIT.EDU (MIT World)
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:18:31 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] Champy and ESD Panel on Systems,
	Glimcher on the Brain and Value
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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 2 |  September 16, 2009

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Critical Issues and Grand Challenges
June 15, 2009

James Champy moderates this panel that uses the lens of systems engineering to focus sharply 
on some signature global challenges in finance, healthcare, energy and IT. 

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/697

Moderator:
James A. Champy '63, SM '65
Chairman of Consulting
Perot Systems Corporation

Life Member, MIT Corporation
Event Host:
Engineering Systems Division

"From an engineering systems point of view, we want to understand what?s going on in the 
(finance) industry and create a regulatory framework that would allow this industry to function 
even under adverse conditions. We have to deal with the intra-industry web of relationships 
and credit flows and what happens if some of the key nodes disappear, such as the bankruptcy of Lehman."
-John Reed

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Representation of Value in the Primate Brain
May 7, 2009

Pigeons really like millet seed, monkeys crave juice, and humans get a kick out of winning money. 
While all animals don?t enjoy the same rewards, Paul Glimcher has discovered some common features 
in the way animal brains learn to recognize and pursue something of value.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/702

Speaker:
Paul Glimcher
Professor of Neural Science, Economics, and Psychology

Director, Center for Neuroeconomics

New York University



Event Host:
McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT

"One of the principle functions of the basal ganglia is to learn the values of our actions, 
represent them, and pump out the data to produce choice."
-Paul Glimcher

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In The Pipeline:

Toward India 2020: Challenges and Opportunities

Presented By:
B&K Securities MIT India Program

Speaker:
Dr. Montek Singh Ahulwalia
Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission
Government of India

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MIT Conference on Systems Thinking for Contemporary Challenges
Addressing Complexity in Health Care, Energy, Space, and the Environment<BR><BR>October 22-23, 2009 at MIT						

http://sdm.mit.edu/conf09

Sponsored by the MIT System Design and Management Program, John Deere, and MITRE 

Register now to join MIT faculty and industry leaders who will discuss best practices for applying systems 
thinking to some of the most complex challenges facing today's world. 

<B>Special focus: Health Care</B>

On October 23,?MIT experts and industry experts will cover the following topics: ?framing health 
care systems challenges; a Lean Enterprise systems approach to transforming health care 
systems; re-engineering U.S. health care with health care information technology (HCIT); clinical 
systems issues in stroke care; a systems-based approach to high-risk operations; and 
aging and health care.?


http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?eventid=742938

http://sdm.mit.edu/conf09

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From mit.world at MIT.EDU  Thu Sep 24 12:14:33 2009
From: mit.world at MIT.EDU (MIT World)
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:14:33 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] Norm Augustine on Engineering Systems,
	Andres Lozano on Movement Disorders
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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 3 |  September 24, 2009

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The Mysterious Field of Engineering Systems
June 16, 2009

One of the nation?s revered technology leaders dispenses anecdotes and wisdom on the slippery 
subject of engineering systems (or systems engineering). Former CEO and Chairman at Lockheed Martin, 
Norm Augustine has come up with ?Norm?s Rules,? and can at least define ?system? 
as ?having two or more elements that interact,? and ?engineering? as ?creating the means for 
performing useful functions.? His must-see "dirty dozen" of engineering systems traps will resonate with
engineers and non engineers alike.  


http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/698

Speaker:
Norman Augustine
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Retired

Lockheed Martin Corporation


Event Host:
Engineering Systems Division

"I am an engineer. I?m one of those people who designed your computer so that when you want to 
shut it off you click on ?start?."
-Norm Augustine

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Deep Brain Stimulation Therapy for Movement Disorders
May 7, 2009

New tools are enabling neuroscientists to break therapeutic ground against daunting disorders like 
Parkinson?s Disease. Andres Lozano is one ?of a small group of heroes,? in Ann Graybiel?s estimate, 
whose work is yielding astonishing advances on a variety of fronts.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/703

Speaker:
Andres Lozano
Senior Scientist, Division of Brain Imaging & Behaviour Systems - Neuroscience, Toronto Western Research Institute (TWRI)
Professor, Department of Surgery, and inaugural Chair Holder, the Ron Tasker Chair in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, University Health Network


Event Host:
McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT

"In some cases we used pure chance, and fluke and serendipity. Who would have thought you?d treat 
someone with obesity and you?d end up treating memory? So you have to be always on the 
lookout for these collateral effects you were not expecting."
-Andres Lozano

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In The Pipeline:

Looking Ahead to 2020

Presented By:
Engineering Systems Division
 International Engineering Systems Symposium

Moderator:
William Rouse
Executive Director
The Tennenbaum Institute
 Georgia Institute of Technology 

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MIT CENTER FOR REAL ESTATE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
October Series for Professionals						

http://web.mit.edu/cre/education/profed/campus-courses.html#october

MIT/CRE?s Professional Development Institute provides professionals innovative, expert, and practical knowledge through one- and two-day courses. All courses are taught by MIT faculty and industry leaders. Choose one class or take as a series:

Fundamentals of Loan Workouts - October 26
Advanced Real Estate Finance - October 27-28
Assisted Living: <i>Today</i>  -  October 29
Assisted Living: <i>Tomorrow</i>  - October 30


http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?eventid=742938
View Course Descriptions
http://web.mit.edu/cre/education/profed/campus-courses.html#october

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From mit.world at MIT.EDU  Tue Sep 29 15:27:48 2009
From: mit.world at MIT.EDU (MIT World)
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:27:48 -0400
Subject: [Mitworld] Lawrence Fish and Simon Johnson on the Banking Crisis,
	Subra Suresh and Yossi Sheffi on Engineering Systems
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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 4 |  September 29, 2009

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Financial Services: Prospects for Your Future
September 24, 2009

In a lively discussion with Simon Johnson, Lawrence Fish deconstructs the near collapse of the 
banking system and points out the multiple factors that have contributed to the financial crisis. 


http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/706

Speakers:
Lawrence K. Fish
Former Chairman and CEO, Citizens Financial Group
Member, MIT Corporation

Simon Johnson PhD '98
Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship, MIT Sloan School of Management


Event Host:
MIT Sloan School of Management

"There are no B pluses in ethics.
It's pass/fail.
"
-Lawrence K. Fish

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MIT Perspective on Engineering Systems
June 16, 2009

The field of systems engineering has only recently emerged, and as this symposium demonstrates, 
defies precise definition.  But MIT has taken this evolving area to heart, nurturing a new division 
and encouraging a raft of ventures that in their execution, may help shape the field 
for the next century.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/699

Speakers:
Subra Suresh ScD '81
Dean, MIT School of Engineering

Vannevar Bush Professor of Engineering;

Professor of Biological Engineering


Yossi Sheffi SM '77, PhD '78
Director, Engineering Systems Division

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems 
Director, MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics


Event Host:
Engineering Systems Division

"The 21st-century engineer is the one who has to fix some of the problems associated with the 
greatest achievements of the 20th century. ... What is the ingredient here? Societal perspective. 
How do we educate a student in three or four years to look at things beyond what 
we see in engineering?"
-Subra Suresh

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In The Pipeline:

Entrepreneurship, Government, and Development in Africa

Presented By:
Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship
The Legatum Lecture Series

Speaker:
President John Kufour
President of Ghana 2001-2009 

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MIT Conference on Systems Thinking for Contemporary Challenges
Addressing Complexity in Health Care, Energy, Space, and the Environment<BR><BR>October 22-23, 2009 at MIT						

http://sdm.mit.edu/index.php?fileName=conf09/sdm_conference.html

Register now to join MIT faculty and industry leaders who will discuss best practices for applying systems thinking to some of the most complex challenges facing today's world.  

Hear Stephen Connors, Director of the MIT Energy Initiative's Analysis Group for Regional Energy Alternatives discuss systems issues surrounding regional energy sustainability.  The presentation will offer
recommendations for energy-importing nations to meet climate change and energy security goals simultaneously through aggressive end-use efficiencies, diversification of domestic sources, and modernization of energy networks.
http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?eventid=742938

http://sdm.mit.edu/index.php?fileName=conf09/sdm_conference.html

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