[Mitworld] Montek Ahluwalia on India, Panel on Engineering Systems

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 5 |  October 1, 2009

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Toward India 2020: Challenges and Opportunities
September 9, 2009

Montek Singh Ahluwalia discusses plans for India's continued economic growth. The true objective 
for India, he believes, is “inclusive growth,” an equitable and constructive distribution of 
economic gains via market forces, government and public means.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/705

Speaker:
Montek Singh Ahluwalia
Deputy Chairman, Indian Planning Commission


Event Host:
Global MIT

"I’m not talking about becoming happy, I’m just talking about becoming developed. It’s perfectly 
possible to have high income and be miserable. I’m happier tackling that problem once we have 
high income, so don’t knock it. It’s also totally possible to be poor and happy. I’m glad there 
are people trying to make poor people happy but that’s not my job. My job is to make them 
richer, and I think it’s a sensible thing to do."
-Montek Singh Ahluwalia

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Looking Ahead to 2020
June 16, 2009

William Rouse moderates this panel of real-world practitioners of systems engineering/engineering 
systems as they describe how the young discipline has shaped organizations like MITRE and the 
Transportation Research Board. By 2020, Joel Moses hopes that engineering systems will be 
recognized “as having made significant contributions” to health care, energy, environment, 
financial services and the military.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/700

Moderator:
William B. Rouse SM '70, PhD '72
Executive Director, Tennenbaum Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology
 Professor, College of Computing and School of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Event Host:
Engineering Systems Division

"Risk management is a very important element. If you do it right, it can make enormous contributions 
to avoiding failures. Done wrong, it becomes bookkeeping and is useless."
-Heinz Stoewer

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In The Pipeline:

U.S.-Cuba Relations: The Beginning of a Long Thaw?

Presented By:
MIT Center for International Studies
Starr Forum

Speaker:
Julia Sweig
Wayne Smith


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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 Michael Ryschkewitsch, Chief Engineer, NASA, discuss <i>Systems Engineering and Sustainability at NASA: Addressing Engineering and Culture</i>. The presentation will describe NASA's effort to define both sides of systems engineering. This involves technical leadership and systems management, i.e., the art and the science of systems engineering.
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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