Three Integrated Product Development Teams Catch Attention of Cass Community Social Services: Treads, Hope Garden and Lumiere

ANN ARBOR – The Integrated Product Development class at the University of Michigan has been generating excitement around innovative "Why didn't I think of that?" products created by multidisciplinary student teams for the last 19 years. Read more. Click here for IPD results.

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Boeing's W. James (Jim) McNerney, Jr., Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer visits with Tauber Teams

Three student teams sponsored by Boeing met McNerney in October to present results of their projects and gained valuable feedback. View project descriptions here.

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BorgWarner Teams present their projects to Executive Council

Four student teams sponsored by BorgWarner captured the Executive Council's attention in late October. The company annually welcomes sponsored teams to present their findings to BorgWarner executives. CEO Tim Manganello said that BorgWarner has benefitted greatly from its relationship with the Tauber Institute, and though the teams' findings are not always easy to hear, he is grateful for the insight and examination of his company's inner workings. "If you shine a light on something, it get fixed," he said. The teams posed with Borgwarner Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Timothy M. Manganello with the first place award.

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TLSS welcomes Con-way Freight Marketing Executive Bill Wynne

William Wynne, vice president for Con-way Freight based in Ann Arbor was sponsored by the Tauber Leadership Speaker Series in November to speak on "Customer Driven Strategy". Click for description

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Global Operations Conference

The fifth annual Global Operations Conference brought industry leaders, faculty, alumni and students together to strategize ways to advance the worldwide practice of Operations. Participating in the product development panel was alumni, John Bayless (MBA '04). Guided by a series of presentations from high level speakers and panels, the 2011 Global Operations Conference reflected on the past decade of operations management, and looked forward to solutions for the next ten years. Read more.

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"Serial" Entrepreneur Scott Newman-Bale shares his experience through the Tauber Leadership Speaker Series (TLSS)

Scott Newman-Bale, CFO and Partner of Short's Brewing Company on December 8th shared his experience with students. The event was hosted by the Tauber Leadership Speaker Series. Scott moved to Michigan after working for a number of years as a Video Games Designer for Electronic Arts and EA Sports in the United Kingdom. Wanting a change, he went back to college to study business so he could stay in America. As a senior he helped start  a brewery that later became one of the largest in Michigan, averaging 80% growth a year for the last 5 years.  View video of his visit.

Advanced Manufacturing Partnership

U-M is one of only six universities participating in the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, a new federal initiative to boost U.S. competitiveness. Supported by 11 corporate partners, this $500-million effort will investigate opportunities in emerging manufacturing technologies and processes. Hundreds attended a regional meeting this month.

Watch the recorded Webcast.

Read the announcement.

Paper by Professor Yavuz Bozer one of top-10 highly cited papers published in IIE Transactions

Professor Yavuz Bozer's paper, "Optimizing Inbound and Outbound Door Assignments in Less-Than-Truckload Crossdocks", co-authored with IOE PhD graduate, Hector Carlo, has been included in the top 10 most often cited papers for IIE Transactions over the last 3 years. The paper may be downloaded for free here.

IIE Transactions is an official journal of the Institute of Industrial Engineers.

Please join us in congratulating Yavuz on this honor!

Geoffrey Phillips MBA '98

Geoffrey serves with Anuj Gupta as co-chairman of the Tauber Scholarship Committee. Phillips leads Product Development for NSTAR, an electric and gas utility company in Boston, Massachusetts. As such, he is focused on energy efficiency for commercial and industrial customers. “My job is to develop new products for targeted customer segments that will enable our customers to reduce their energy consumption. As a utility, we do not actually create the technology, but we have to package it intelligently to meet the needs of the target customers and offer the appropriate incentive to increase the adoption rates of our programs,” Phillips said. Read more.

Anuj Gupta ME '03

Anuj started his professional career in 2000 in Mumbai, India, where he managed a dozen people at a specialty chemical plant. Today, he is Global Manager of Brewery Operations and Strategic Planning for Anheuser Busch Inbev in New York City where his responsibilities include overseeing $10B in variable manufacturing costs across four continents.

Gupta came to the University of Michigan in 2002 to pursue his Master of Engineering, Manufacturing and Operations Management degree and to participate in the Tauber Institute for Global Operations program. He was awarded the TMI Merit Scholarship in 2003. Read more.

Kok Keng (KK) Goh '07

KK worked with ZS Associates, a sales and marketing consulting company based in Evanston, IL. KK specialized in sales force inventive compensation, call planning, forecasting and product development planning. This past year, KK left to pursue entrepreneurial efforts in real estate and started Sucasa, LLC. KK works with private investors from the US, China, India and Singapore to finance fix-and-flip and buy-and-hold investments in the Chicago area.

Mario Noble MBA '04

In mid-October, Mario was promoted to director, global manufacturing quality at Life Fitness, a Division of Brunswick Corporation.

Eric (EGL '05) and Angela (Galardi) Ceresnie (EGL '05)

The Ceresnie family welcomed

their first child, a daughter,

Dalia Skye Ceresnie, on May 4, 2011

Ashish Vatsal MBA '11

After graduating from Ross this year, Ashish spent three fabulous months backpacking around South America. Highlights of the trip included going on wine tours in Mendoza, admiring the splendors of Iguazu Falls, fishing for piranhas in the Amazon jungle, swimming with sharks in the Galapagos Islands, hiking the Inca Trail to Macchu Picchu, and picking up basic Spanish.

In mid-August, he joined BCG Chicago as a Consultant, which has kept him busy with interesting, challenging projects and intelligent, motivated teammates. In Chicago, he's been busy exploring the city with his fellow Tauber Bar-Runners.

Dennis Teo MBA/MSE '97

Dennis recently launched his consulting firm focusing on supply chain strategy and operations based in Shanghai. "After years of contemplation (mostly procrastination) I have mustered the courage to leave my job of 6 years as Supply chain director of a 4bil USD tire manufacturer to realize my dream of becoming an Entrepreneur. I am also honored to serve in the newly created TAB role as the Committee Chair for Asia Outreach". In this role, Dennis will lead Tauber’s efforts in networking, scholarship, mentoring and recruiting in Asia. Please send any questions you have regarding this role or supply chain/business matters in Asia to: dteo@waypointe.asia or alumni office.

L to R: Lisl, Adelaide, Katie, Matilda, Nick, and Archie

("Lisl" is short for Elisabeth)

Nick Abstoss '011

Katie, Lisl (7) , Addie (5), Archie (2) and Nick welcomed Matilda "Tillie" Joan Abstoss into their family in late June. She was born in at 1:02 pm, weighing 6 Lbs 6.5 Oz. with a full head of hair (just like her brother and sisters). Mom and baby are doing well!

Brittany Seaver MBA '07

Brittany recently accepted a new position in Denver, Colorado at Zayo Group as the director of corporate and segment marketing.

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