Department of Aerospace and Aeronautics
Massachussets Institute of Technology

Focus Lead, Lean Enterprise Team(LET)
Lean Aerospace Initiative(LAI)

Dr. Deborah Seifert Nightingale has 27 years of broad-based experience with academia, the government and the private sector. Prior to joining the Lean Aerospace Initiative(LAI) at MIT in 1997, she served in a number of key executive positions including Operations, Strategic Planning, Business Operations, and Engineering. Dr. Nightingale has a proven record in strategic leadership and growing and managing the business both domestically and internationally, resulting in outstanding bottom line performance. In addition, she has achieved international distinction for her wide ranging contributions to the field of Enterprise Integration and led a corporate-wide initiative that extended across all aspects of a manufacturing enterprise including operations, engineering, customer support, information systems, and finance. Dr. Nightingale is very actively involved in professional societies such as the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and serves on a number of boards and national committees, where she interacts extensively with both industry and academic leaders.

Education: Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Ohio State University, MS in Computer and Information Science from Ohio State University and BS degrees in Computer and Information Science from University of Dayton.

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Tel:(617)-253-7339                                                                                                Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fax:(617)-253-0361                                                                                               77 Massachusetts Avenue,Room E10-105a
Email:dnight@MIT.EDU                                                                                       Cambridge,MA-02139-4307
 

Last Updated:23/6/2000