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PARTICIPATION PROGRAM ORGANIZERS INFORMATION Visits since 15 March
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Keynote Speaker from IBM
As global industry structures evolve into ever more sophisticated distributed networks companies and governments are faced with increasingly complex strategy and policy decisions. Drawing on a recent review of industrial trends and policies in major economies the presentation will address emerging patterns of design, production and service and the policies which are being developed to address the changing industrial landscape Professor Mike Gregory is the Head of the Manufacturing & Management Division and the Institute for Manufacturing at Cambridge University. After an early career in industry he was the founder member of the manufacturing engineering group at Cambridge - the forerunner of the IfM. His research and professional interests include manufacturing strategy, technology management, international manufacturing and industrial policy. He has served on a range of government and institutional committees including the UK National Manufacturing Forum, Executive Committee of ESRC Advanced Institute of Management. He served as Chairman of UK Manufacturing Professors' Forum and Chairman of the General Engineering Panel of the 2001 UK Research Assessment Exercise. Professor Gregory is a Fellow of Churchill College and Fellow of IET.
Research and development of nano manufacturing is a driving force for strong economic growth in the world, and some analysts predict that its impact will bring about the next industrial revolution. However, very little actual research and development has been conducted by industrial engineers and engineering managers to face the challenges that we are taking in the midst of the nano era. One key reason for this dearth of development is that nano research and development present an interdisciplinary subject that heavily involves new physics phenomena and statistics and industrial engineers are not prepared for the new move. In many ways, the community of IEEM is still taking the strategies of the old paradigm of being efficient and being less technology relevant. All these issues will be addressed in this talk. The talk will start with a historical overview of technologies and the relevance of industrial engineering to the society in the past as well as the future challenges that we face today. Professor Way Kuo is University Distinguished Professor and Dean of Engineering at The University of Tennessee, and an Honorary Professor of National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. Previously, he was holder of Wisenbaker Chair of Engineering in Innovation and Executive Associate Dean of Engineering at Texas A&M University and was with Bell Labs and Iowa State University. He is recognized as one of the principal scholars responsible for developing cost-effective methodologies for reducing the infant mortality in the fast-evolving microelectronics industry. Dr. Kuo is an elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering, Academia Sinica (National Academy of Science), Taiwan, and the International Academy for Quality. He is Fellow of IEEE, IIE, INFORMS, ASQ, and also Honorary Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Xian Jiao Tong University in China.
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