The MIT-Portugal Collaboration Operating Committee |
The membership of the Operating Committee consists of:- The Director of the Portugal Program at MIT, who shall also be the chair of the Program Operating Committee;
- The Director of the MIT-Portugal Program at the Foundation;
- The MIT faculty members who are leading each of the Focus Areas in the Portugal Program at MIT who shall be appointed by MIT; and
- Selected individuals from Portuguese universities and other entities who are leading each of the Focus Areas in the MIT-Portugal Program run by the Foundation in Portugal, who are collaborating with the MIT leaders of the Focus Areas and whose institutions are participating in the Portuguese consortium, who shall be appointed by the Foundation.
The membership of the Operating Committee as of January 2008:Director of the Portugal Program at MIT (Chair) | Daniel Roos
Professor and Founding Director, MIT Engineering Systems Division | Director of the MIT-Portugal Program at the Foundation | Paulo Manuel Cadete Ferrão
Associate Professor at Instituto Superior Tecnico, Technical University of Lisbon and Director, Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research (also PT lead for Sustainable Energy Systems) | MIT faculty members who are leading each of the Focus Areas | Joel Clark
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Engineering Systems (EDAM-Manufacturing) Christopher Magee
Professor of the Practice of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Systems (EDAM-Design) David Marks
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems and Director, Laboratory for Energy and the Environment (Sustainable Energy Systems) Chris Zegras
Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Developement (Transportation Systems) Dava Newman
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems, and Director, Technology and Policy Program (Bio-engineering Systems) | Selected individuals from Portuguese universities and other entities who are leading each of the Focus Areas in the MIT-Portugal Program | Antonio Cunha
Full Professor, Dean of the School of Engineering, University of Minho, and co-Director of CEIA, the Center for Excellence and Innovation in the Auto-industry (EDAM Focus Area Leader) António Torres Marques
Full Professor, School of Engineering, University of Porto (EDAM) Eduardo Oliveira Fernandes
Full Professor, School of Engineering, University of Porto (Sustainable Energy Systems) José M. Viegas
Professor, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon (Transportation Systems Focus Area Leader) Manuel Nunes da Ponte
Full Professor, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Former Director of ITQB (Bio-engineering Systems Focus Area Leader) |
* Affiliated to the Program, but not Focus Areas Leaders |
