Course Name

Seminar in Operations Management

Collection
Free

  • General

Open

About

Photograph of a roadmap.
A roadmap. (Photo courtesy of openphoto.net)

Instructor(s)

Prof. Charles H. Fine

MIT Course Number

15.795

As Taught In

Fall 2002

Level

Graduate

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Course Features

Course Highlights

A bibliography of books that address various aspects of operations management and a list of student project topics are available.

Course Description

This seminar will explore the purposes and development of Technology Roadmaps for systematically mapping out possible development paths for various technological domains and the industries that build on them. Data of importance for such roadmaps include rates of innovation, key bottlenecks, physical limitations, improvement trendlines, corporate intent, and value chain and industry evolutionary paths. The course will build on ongoing work on the MIT Communications Technology Roadmap project, but will explore other domains selected from Nanotechnology, Bio-informatics, Geno/Proteino/Celleomics, Neurotechnology, Imaging & Diagnostics, etc. Thesis and Special Project opportunities will be offered.