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Steven D. EppingerGeneral
Motors LFM Prof. of Management Science and Engg Systems Steven
D. Eppinger is Associate Professor of Management Science and holds the
General Motors Leaders for Manufacturing Chair at the MIT Sloan School
of Management and a joint appointment in MITís Engineering Systems Division.
He received the S.B., S.M., and Sc.D. degrees from MIT's Department
of Mechanical Engineering before joining the faculty in 1988. At
the Sloan School, Prof. Eppinger has created an interdisciplinary product
development course, in which graduate students from engineering, management,
and industrial design programs collaborate to develop new products.
He also teaches MIT's executive programs in the area of product
development. Prof.
Eppinger has co-authored a textbook entitled Product
Design and Development published by McGraw-Hill.
In 1993, he received both MIT's Graduate Student Council Teaching
Award and the Sloan School’s Award for Innovation and Excellence in
Management Education. Dr.
Eppinger's research efforts are applied to improving product design
and development practices. This
research is conducted within MIT's Center for Innovation in Product
Development and focuses on organizing complex design processes in order
to accelerate industrial practices.
This work has been applied primarily in the automotive, electronics,
aerospace, and equipment industries.
He has authored over forty articles in refereed academic journals
and conferences. In 1995,
he received the ASME Best Paper Award in Design Theory and Methodology.
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