ALUMNI NEWS
February 2015
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 | | Tauber faculty chose the finalists for the 2015 TIME Dealer of the Year. (photo: Rebecca Wilkowski ) |
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"Our biggest challenge right now is recruiting.... People who work on our floor are running million dollar computers. We hire them for their brains, and if they don't know programming, we'll train them."
- Elisabeth Smart, MBA '09,
President & CEO of Acutec Precision Machining, Inc.
Check in with Tauber alum Elisabeth Smith, the new President & CEO of aerospace subassembly and manufacturing supplier Acutec Precision Machining, Inc. Elisabeth shares her thoughts on the challenges of recruiting good manufacturing talent, keeping up with the latest technology, and how her Tauber Institute experience helps her earn respect on the shop floor.
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 | | Ruoxin Wang and Ashlyn Gurly test their tire-changing skills at the Pit Crew Challenge. (photo: Philip Dattilo) |
"It's not just a driver and his car. It's a whole system of people working to make sure he has what he needs."
- Ashlyn Gurly, MSCM '15
Tauber students rolled up their sleeves, grabbed air guns, and transformed into race car pit crews for the 10th Annual NASCAR Stock Car Pit Crew Challenge. Their task: use teamwork combined with newly learned skills to remove, rotate, and reattach the front and rear tires on an actual NASCAR vehicle as quickly as possible. The winning team - 'Romanizers' - boasted a time of just 10.84 seconds!
Learn more about, and see more pictures of the10th Annual Pit Crew Challenge.
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 | Prof. Mark S. Daskin
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"I think that IOEs will continue to be employed in traditional IOE fields such as manufacturing and transportation systems as well as consulting. In addition, a growing number will be addressing new emerging critical issues in healthcare, energy, national security, and education. There are critical problems in each of these areas and IOEs will have an important role to play in the resolution of these problems."
- Professor Mark S. Daskin, the Clyde W. Johnson Collegiate Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering and Tauber Institute Faculty Co-Advisor
Read more of Professor Daskin's insights about the future of Industrial and Operations Engineering and the new problems today's students will need to help solve.
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Tauber Students Present to Top BorgWarner Executives
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 | | BorgWarner President & CEO James R. Verrier meets with Tauber students. (photo: Dwight Cendrowski) |
Students from the three 2014 BorgWarner project teams presented their findings to the BorgWarner Executive Board at the BorgWarner Headquarters in Auburn Hills, MI. The students generated plans that provided BorgWarner with over $6.5 million in potential savings.
Learn more about how Tauber provides students VIP access to C-suite executives.
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Aditya Seshnath, MSCM '15 (photo: Philip Dattilo)
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"My passion is to bring cleanliness to India."
- Aditya Seshnath, U-M Tauber Institute student,
and Co-founder and CEO of 300ft. Eco Solutions
Aditya Seshnath had a rewarding career as a product design engineer at Toyota. But a business trip to Indonesia launched him on a new mission. Surprised by how much cleaner the streets were in Jakarta than back home in Bangalore, Aditya applied the kaizen problem solving techniques he learned at Toyota to develop effective waste management solutions to bring about change in his city.
Discover the simple yet powerful "A Minute to Bin It" concept behind 300ft. Eco Solutions, and find out what brought Aditya to the U-M Tauber Institute for Global Operations.
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300 Feet Eco Solutions provides sustainable waste management infrastructure for both public and private enterprises in the bustling city of Bangalore. The company is installing hundreds of litter bins that let the public know: It only takes "A Minute to Bin it." (photo: courtesy 300ft.)
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 | | Tauber MSCM 2014 graduates celebrate! (photo: Philip Dattilo) |
The U-M Tauber MSCM 2014 Graduating Class held their commencement dinner on December 12 at the U-M Ross School of Business. The twenty-one new graduates are headed to great careers in Supply Chain Management at companies that include Amazon, GM, Google, and Ford.
See more photos of the MSCM 2014 commencement.
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