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EdNet Funding Status
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- Created on 16 March 2011
The US Air Force has made a final grant to support the EdNet core operations through August 2011. We are very appreciative of their support over the past years. It is important for the LAI Education Network to find alternate funding in order to support operations and programs beyond 2011. Please send you ideas on both funding and potential opportunities to the team at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
Successful Academy at MIT
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- Created on 16 March 2011
The MIT campus was host to another engaging LAI Lean Academy class on January 19-21, 2011. The audience consisted of 26 MIT graduate and undergraduate students. Options for an enterprise track as well as a newly updated healthcare track were offered. Results showed that the class participants surpassed level 2 readiness for lean transformation, and the simulation ratings were among the highest seen for this course. The course was taught by:
- LAI Executive Director, Dick Lewis,
- MIT Asst Professor, Annalisa Weigel,
- MIT Professor Emeritus, Earll Murman, and
- Associate EdNet Director, Dr. Hugh McManus.
Many thanks to all who helped to make this class such a huge success, including New Balance Shoe and U Mass Memorial Medical Group.
Enroll Today! Summer LAI Lean Academies
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- Created on 16 March 2011
Come to MIT on July 18-20, 2011, to attend the highly successful LAI Lean Academy course. This year we are offering three tracks on enterprise, healthcare, and product development. The class, designed for those who are new to lean thinking, encourages active participation in learning concepts through many exercises. Come and experience our engaging, interactive day-long simulation. Discounts are available for LAI members and academics.
LAI Delivers LEV Simulation to CEAGA Members in Vigo
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- Created on 28 January 2011
Dr. Hugh McManus, LAI Executive Director Dick Lewis, and LAI researcher Dr. Ricardo Valerdi presented LAI's Lean Enterprise Value (LEV) Simulation to an audience of 16 auto industry professionals in Vigo, Spain. The audience included key industrial engineering and lean/CPI professionals from CEAGA member companies. The short course team included EdNet associate director and LEV simulation co-creator Hugh McManus, LAI Executive Director Dick Lewis, and LAI Research Associate Ricardo Valerdi. Dr. McManus arranged the course logistics and acted as simulation master and session leader. Mr. Lewis presented most of the lecture content, and Dr. Valerdi served as a trainee facilitator and translator.
CEAGA hosts included Alberto Cominges, CEAGA General Manager, and Pedro Piñero, CEAGA Corporate University Director, who participated in much of the event. Abel Tintos, CEAGA Corporate University, led the CEAGA facilitator team along with Vanessa Real, CEAGA Lean Program, and Rosa Monteagudo, CEAGA Lean Program Member. The CEAGA facilitators received guided train-the-trainer experience during the event and served as assistant facilitators throughout the event. CEAGA now has the materials and much of the knowledge necessary to independently handle the labor-intensive simulation aspects of the short course.
EdNet Welcomes Delft University and Universidad Iberoamericana
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- Created on 30 November 2010
The LAI EdNet team is very pleased to announce two new international members. We are so excited to be able to expand the EdNet mission into The Netherlands with Delft University. It also very exciting to add to the growing number of Mexican institutions that are EdNet members.
Delft Univeristy, Prof. Roland Ettema, Technology, Policy and Management, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Universidad Iberoamericana (Puebla, Mexico), Juan Carlos Colin, Engineering Program Coordinator, Department of Science and Engineering, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
