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The university's Boeing Center for Technology, Information and Manufacturing is a center set up jointly by Washington University's John M. Olin School of Business, the Boeing Company and other corporate partners, with a view to fostering a more meaningful, mutually beneficial interaction between industry and academe, on issues relating to technology in general and IT, or information technology, in particular, and their impact on the firm in general, and more specifically on the management of its operations and those of its supply chain partners.
The BCTIM seeks to better expose members of the academic community (both teachers and the taught) to world-class technology, operations and supply chain management practices, and thus contribute to their research and teaching activities, or learning experience, respectively. It aims to provide industry with access to cutting-edge applied research and up-to-date educational and instructional material dealing with such issues. Finally, the BCTIM helps the pool of graduates - that the center's industrial partners routinely recruit from - become more "tech-savvy" and knowledgeable than they might have otherwise been.
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Sergio Chayet
Assistant Professor of Operations and Manufacturing Management
Chayet's area of expertise is in decision analysis, inventory control, production planning and scheduling and operations strategy. He also studies strategic planning for production and service organizations using queueing and game-theoretic models; control and management of manufacturing systems; ...
Expertise: Operations management, inventory control, production planning and scheduling, operations strategy, decision analysis.
Direct contact: (314) 935-6769
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chayet@wustl.edu
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Panos Kouvelis
Emerson Distinguished Professor of Operations and Manufacturing Management
Kouvelis is an expert on global supply chain security and on the efforts of homeland security officials to secure the 30 million containers that are shipped into the United States annually as part of the manufacturing and distribution supply chain. He's also an expert source on a variety of business-related ...
Expertise: marketing, e-commerce, operations management, manufacturing management, facility layout, inventory control, production planning, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-4604
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kouvelis@wustl.edu
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Kenneth Harrington
Managing Director of Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
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Mr. Harrington spent over 25 years in the telecommunications and information technology business. He has been a senior executive for five start-up companies and has also been involved with turn-around and roll-up consolidations in the technology industry. He is currently the Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship ...
Expertise: entrepreneurship, economics, telecommunications industry, life sciences industry, international development
Direct contact: (314) 935-9134
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harrington@wustl.edu
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Tava Lennon Olsen
Professor of Operations and Manufacturing, Management/Faculty Development Chair
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Professor Olsen grew up in New Zealand and earned her undergraduate degree there. She worked as a teaching assistant and research assistant during her doctoral studies at Stanford University. Prior to joining Olin, she was an assistant professor at the University of Michigan.
Expertise: management science, math programming, simulation modeling, Stochastic Processes, operations management, manufacturing management, inventory control, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-4732
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olsen@wustl.edu
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Master's degree will give students competitive edge in vital career sector
Olin Business School announces new degree in supply chain management
May 18,
2009 -- The Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis will launch a Master of Science in Supply Chain Management specialized program in September 2009. The 12-month, 36-credit-hour program will be multi-disciplinary with a cutting-edge curriculum and active collaboration with industry leaders and the supply chain issues they encounter.
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Is less more?
Businesses hold steady on price, offer smaller quantities to stay profitable
June 27,
2008 --
Inflation may be rampant, but not all consumer products are getting more expensive. Instead, they're getting smaller. Three marketing professors from the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis comment on why smaller packaging is a good idea — for business.
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Managing the supply chain
How the Gap could have avoided entanglement with child labor
Nov. 21,
2007 --
If it is a surprise to Gap Inc. that some of its clothing manufactured in India was made by young children, then the company didn't do a thorough job investigating the pros and cons of international outsourcing, according to Panos Kouvelis, the Emerson Distinguished Professor of Operations and Manufacturing Management at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis.
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What's Next: Ultrasound Images Via Cellphone
The Washington Post
May 12,
2009 -- WUSTL engineers led by computer science professor William Richard have created a USB-based ultrasound probe that can connect to a smartphone, creating a low-cost ultrasound imaging platform.
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Is The FDA Easing Up?
Forbes
May 8,
2009 -- Matthew Herper reports on the controversy surrounding the FDA and its policy for approving new schizophrenia drugs. Includes comments by WUSTL psychiatry professor John Newcomer.
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Scientists Develop USB Ultrasound for Phones
PC Magazine
April 23,
2009 -- WUSTL computer scientists William Richard and David Zar have developed a USB Ultrasound probe that works with Windows Mobile smartphones, giving doctors a medical imaging device that they can carry with them wherever they go.
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Soon, smartphones to provide ultrasound imaging
Hindustan Times (India)
and 10 others
April 23,
2009 -- WUSTL computer science and engineering professors William Richard and David Zar have made commercial USB ultrasound probes compatible with Microsoft Windows mobile-based smartphones.
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Engineer finds ways to improve gas mileage
United Press International
and 2 others
March 23,
2009 -- A U.S. engineer says he is trying to develop methods of reducing vehicle drag so as to improve the gas mileage of planes, automobiles and trucks. WUSTL mechanical engineering professor Ramesh Agarwal said that although the technology has not yet been deployed on any commercially available vehicle, it is being investigated by airplane and automobile companies worldwide.
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Arch Coal set to release 4Q earnings
Associated Press State & Local Wire
and 3 others
Jan. 30,
2009 -- Arch Coal Inc., one of the world's biggest coal producers, reports earnings for the fourth quarter and full-year 2008 before the market opens Friday. Last month, Arch Coal and Peabody announced they are combining with Ameren Corp. and WUSTL to try and make St. Louis the nation's center for clean coal research and education.
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Story on the establishment of the Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization
Xinhua News Agency (China)
and 11 others
Dec. 12,
2008 -- In a Dec. 8th news conference in Hong Kong, twenty-five premier research universities from around the world, including WUSTL, announced the establishment of the Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization to promote research and applications of clean coal technology.
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J&J, Bayer, Boehringer Clot-Busters May Reap Billons
Bloomberg.com
and 1 others
Dec. 10,
2008 -- The first new pills in 60 years to prevent vein-clogging clots are emerging from research laboratories and may bring billions of dollars in sales to Johnson & Johnson, Bayer AG and Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH. WUSTL hematology professor Evan Sadler comments.
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Effort would make St. Louis clean coal focal point
Associated Press State & Local Wire
and 13 others
Dec. 3,
2008 -- Two major coal companies and one of the Midwest's largest utilities are combining with WUSTL to try and make St. Louis the nation's center for clean coal research and education.
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Getting Rid Of Mercury
Chemical & Engineering News
Nov. 24,
2008 -- Anticipating a national rule on mercury removal from coal flue gas, technology providers jockey for position in this new market. Pratim Biswas, who chairs the department of energy, environmental, and chemical engineering at WUSTL, says titanium dioxide shows promise as an efficient mercury-removal mechanism.
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China trying different things to improve air quality for Olympics
CBS Evening News
July 17,
2008 -- The Beijing Olympics begin in just over three weeks, and the Chinese are trying to clear the air. In a recent test, Beijing's air failed to meet international health guidelines six days out of seven. WUSTL chemical engineering professor Jay Turner comments.
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Edit your DNA: 'Gene wiki' to debut on Wikipedia
The Associated Press State & Local Wire
and 29 others
July 9,
2008 -- Researchers on Tuesday launched an effort to create a library of human genetics using the online encyclopedia Wikipedia in hopes it could spur widespread discussion about thousands of individual genes.
Authors of the "gene wiki" group outlined its lofty aims in a paper published on the Public Library of Science's online journal, PLoS Biology. The eight authors are from the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation in San Diego, San Diego State University and Washington University in St. Louis.
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Betting on a Biofuel
The Wall Street Journal
June 30,
2008 -- With ethanol looking less and less like the ideal alternative to fossil fuels, companies are rushing to come up with better options, such as biobutanol. WUSTL chemical engineering professor Lars Angenent is experimenting with using corn waste from ethanol plants to make butanol.
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U.S. research making great leap
Philadelphia Inquirer
Nov. 6,
2006 -- Eager to tap into China's pool of dirt-cheap engineers and technical employees who earn $5,000 to $10,000 a year, hundreds of European and U.S. companies have opened research centers throughout China in the last two years.
WUSTL political science professor Andrew Mertha warns that companies should be careful because of the seriouis problem of intellectual property piracy.
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Making pills the smart way
Business Week
April 26,
2004 -- Despite its high-tech image, the pharmaceutical industry is less adept at manufacturing than you might expect. The Food & Drug Administration recently found hundreds of quality violations at drug companies and some factory processes are so antiquated that companies can't even pinpoint the cause of the snafus. Manufacturing may have become the poor stepchild of the pharmaceutical industry, but now, that stepchild is getting the attention it deserves. Jackson A. Nickerson of the Olin School of Business is leading an effort to find and correct flaws in drug-manufacturing practices and in FDA regulations, and he predicts huge economic gains. "Everyone has said that costs could decline by up to 50%," said Nickerson in the May 3, 2004, online issue of Business Week.
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