The Leaders for Manufacturing Program: a new type of industry/university consortium

Author

Rosenfield, Donald B.

Author_Institution

Sloan Sch. of Manage., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

fYear

1989

fDate

25-27 Sep 1989

Firstpage

186

Lastpage

187

Abstract

A description is given of the Leaders for Manufacturing Program, an innovative program being conducted jointly by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology´s School of Management and School of Engineering. The program represents a partnership between MIT and eleven major US corporations. It includes a graduate, dual-degree master´s program as well as a research program in manufacturing. The vision and mission of the program, some of the details of the academic and research agendas, and the structure and operation of the partnership between the two schools at MIT and the eleven industrial partners are described

Keywords

education; electronic equipment manufacture; electronics industry; research and development management; Leaders for Manufacturing Program; MIT; US corporations; dual-degree master´s program; industry/university consortium; research agendas; research program; Collaboration; Companies; Educational institutions; Educational products; Engineering management; Flexible manufacturing systems; Innovation management; Manufacturing industries; Manufacturing processes; Technology management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronic Manufacturing Technology Symposium, 1989, Proceedings. Seventh IEEE/CHMT International

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMTS.1989.68973

Filename

68973