Deanship of Research
Workshop: How to approach and manage industrial projects
Alexander Slocum
Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Monday 13 May 2013, 9:00am- 12:00 in B20
Following up with the 3rd KFUPM Research Day, the Deanship of Research organizes a workshop managed by Prof Alexander Slocum where he will discuss examples of industrial projects, methods to approach companies and related aspects. He will discuss how to manage this type of projects and ways to share outcomes.
About Prof. Slocum
Alexander Slocum is the Papplardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, a MacVicar Faculty Teaching Fellow, and a Fellow of the ASME. He has seven dozen patents and has helped develop 12 products that have received R&D 100 awards for “one of the one hundred best new technical products of the year”. He has helped start several successful companies and has a passion for working with industry to solve real problems and identify fundamental research topics.
Alex was the Massachusetts Professor of the Year in 2000 and is the recipient of the Society of Manufacturing Engineer’s Frederick W. Taylor Research Medal, and the ASME Leonardo daVinci and Machine Design Awards. His current interests focus on the development of precision machines from medical devices and instruments to energy harvesting and storage machines. Recently he served on the DoE Science Team working on the Gulf Oil Spill.