Timothy Simpson is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. His research interests include product family design and platform-based product development, multidisciplinary design optimization, trade space exploration, and additive manufacturing.
Prof. de Weck is a leader in systems engineering research. He focuses on how complex man-made systems such as aircraft, spacecraft, automobiles, printers, and critical infrastructures are designed and how they evolve over time. His main emphasis is on strategic properties that have the potential to maximize lifecycle value (a.k.a the “iIities”).
Sanjay Sarma is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Sloan School of Management.
Michael A M Davies teaches the engineering and business elements of the Integrated Design and Management (IDM) program at MIT. He is an expert on the connections between technology, innovation, product development, consumer choice and behavior, the adoption and diffusion of new products, intellectual property, and the emergence and evolution of platforms and business ecosystems.
Blade is an innovation and user-experience expert & Senior Lecturer at MIT on Design-Thinking and Innovation. Blade provides consulting service in Design-Thinking and helps top brands to innovate radically on their product and services, and teaches corporate teams how to create solutions that customers love. Customers include Bose, CPI International, Whirlpool, Lufthansa, The D.C. Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, and others.
Professor Emanuel Sachs has spent his career moving back and forth between academia and industry. He has co-founded or otherwise been involved in seven start-up companies based on his inventions and co-inventions, including three that went public, one that was acquired by a public company, and three that are still private. Professor Sachs is committed to teaching and has brought innovative methods to the teaching of invention, the engineering sciences, design, and manufacturing.
Jessika Trancik is a Professor at the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research examines the dynamic costs, performance, and environmental impacts of energy systems to inform climate policy and accelerate beneficial and equitable technology innovation.
