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DFMLC Keynote Lecture
Russell Barton
Pennsylvania State University
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 Session: DFMLC 10-1
11:20am–12:00pm Location: Columbia B
Design and Manufacturing - Sustaining the Connection
Product design is intimately connected with available
technology and associated manufacturing processes. This
inherent interdependency is even more critical in the design of
complex systems. Cost over-runs and time delays for
development and delivery of products across scales is often
driven by unanticipated influences from downstream
manufacturing issues that were not adequately captured during
product design. Despite the interdependence of design and
manufacturing, however, these communities have largely grown
and developed independently, beginning with the separation of
the first industrial engineering department from mechanical
engineering in 1908. We will explore the needs and benefits of
maintaining a connection between design and manufacturing,
the history of previous attempts, and initiatives that are currently
underway at the National Science Foundation and elsewhere to
promote and explore these connections. We will also speculate
on both shorter term and longer term initiatives on the horizon
that might provide opportunities for both communities.
Biographical Description: Dr. Russell Barton is Professor of
Supply Chain and Information Systems in the Smeal College of
Business at Penn State. He is on assignment from Penn State
as Program Director for Manufacturing Enterprise Systems and
Service Enterprise Systems at NSF. He is also the Smeal
College liaison for graduate curricula for interdisciplinary design.
Prior to accepting his NSF appointment, he was Associate
Director of the Center for the Management of Technological and
Organizational Change, and Co-Director of the Master of
Manufacturing Management degree program. From 2002-2005
he served as associate dean for research and Ph.D./M.S.
programs. He was a professor in the Department of Industrial
and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State for eleven years
prior to joining Smeal, and was professeur invité in the product
development and innovation laboratory at École Centrale Paris.
He spent eleven years in industry and consulting before entering
academia. Dr. Barton’s research has focused on the interface
between applied statistics and simulation, applied to product
design and manufacturing. He has published over 70 refereed
papers in applied statistics, engineering design/new product
development, optimization and simulation. He has taught
courses in statistics and quality, operations management, new
product development, optimization, and simulation at the
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undergraduate and graduate levels, and co-authored continuing
education statistics courses used at RCA and GE. He has
received seven awards for teaching and curriculum
development and ten NSF grants. He holds a B.S.E.E. from
Princeton and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Operations Research
from Cornell.
MESA Keynote Lecture
Alberto Broggi
University of Parma in Italy
Monday, August 29, 2011 Session: MESA 5-1
10:40am–12:00pm Location: Columbia A
From Italy to China, Driverless!
The presentation will describe the latest challenge in
autonomous driving: a 13,000 km test from Parma, Italy, to
Shanghai, China, during summer 2010. Four electric and
driverless vehicles marked the history in vehicular robotics after
successfully reaching Shanghai after 3 months of autonomous
operation, on an intercontinental route from Europe to Asia. The
talk will describe the vehicles technical details, the travel
experience of this 13,000 km unique trip in history, and some
results obtained by the analysis of the whole data set acquired
during the trip.
Biographical Description: Dr. Alberto Broggi is a professor
of Computer Engineering at the University of Parma in Italy, and
CEO of the VisLab spinoff company. As a pioneer of machine
vision applied to driverless cars and unmanned vehicles, he is
the principal investigator of many projects involving autonomous
vehicles, like the ARGO prototype vehicle, the TerraMax entry at
the DARPA Grand Challenge and Urban Challenge, and
BRAiVE. Under his leadership VisLab organized the first
intercontinental driverless trip in history, named VIAC - VisLab
Intercontinental Autonomous Challenge. He acted as Editor in
Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation
Systems from 2004 to 2008. For the term 2010-2011 he is
serving the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society as
President.