2009 Manufacturing Summit at MIT:

Check-In & Breakfast

9:00 am – 10:30 am

Track 1: Micro- and Nano-Scale Manufacturing

Professor Jung-Hoon Chun,
"Cu CMP: Macro-scale Manufacturing for Nano-scale Quality Requirements"
Professor Kripa Varanasi
"Nanoengineered Surfaces for Efficiency Enhancements in Energy Systems"
Professor Martin Culpepper
"From Nano-scale science to Nanomanufacturing - New equipment paradignms"

Break

10:45 am – 11:45 am

Track 1: Micro- and Nano-Scale Manufacturing cont.

Professor David Hardt,
"Polymer Micro-device Manufacturing: Basic Science and a Teaching Factory"
Panel Session

Track 2: Renewable Energy and Environmentally Benign Manufacturing

Professor Timothy Gutowski
"Thermodynamic Analysis of Resources Used in Manufacturing Processes"
Professor Ely Sachs
"Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaics; Historical View of Progress to Grid Parity"

Lunch

Track 2: Renewable Energy and Environmentally Benign Manufacturing cont.

Professor Tonio Buonassisi,
"Engineering High-Efficiency, Scalable Solar Cells"
Panel Session

Track 3: Manufacturing Systems and Information Technology

Professor Stephen Graves
“An Update of Supply Chain Research”

Break

Track 3: Manufacturing Systems and Information Technology cont.

Dr. Stanley Gershwin
"Uncertainty, Variability, Randomness, and Manufacturing Systems Engineering"
Professor Sanjay Sarma
Recent RFID Developments"
Panel Session

Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity Dinner
Student Poster Winner Announcement

Breakfast and Lab Tours (35-520)

Prof. Nate Cook Room Dedication (35-238)

Keynote: Professor Nam Suh (35-225)

"Innovation: Are there laws of innovation?"