Save the date to celebrate the accomplishments of our Tauber teams. SPOTLIGHT! 2021 registrants will receive access to recordings of student presentations following review by the SPOTLIGHT! judges. We will live-stream the SPOTLIGHT! awards ceremony from the Ross School of Business announcing the top team projects and the 2021 alumni scholarship winners on September 17.

This summer, Tauber Team Brunswick Corporation (Jack Simmons, Sharon Sun, and Leo Lin, pictured here in Fond du Lac, WI) is working to solve a good problem: how to meet sharply increased consumer demand for boats produced by Brunswick's Mercury Marine division.

The Tauber Beyond Meat team of Gilbert Pasquale and Channing Wan is facing a similar challenge. Gilbert reports from Beyond Meat's new plant in Devault, PA: "Beyond's commitment to innovation within their product lines creates exciting production challenges from commercialization to ever-changing schedules. As we've helped Beyond to identify and attack areas for improvement, we've also been able to learn from the production, quality assurance, and maintenance teams among others. We're looking forward to this fall's Spotlight to share some of what we've been able to accomplish!"

"Everything from the team project, the Leadership program, or the Integrated Product Development course involves directly working with the systems and the people. Even in today’s high velocity, technology-driven companies, it still requires a well-synced team to get products out the door quickly – and if you don’t have an excellent feedback loop on how people are using that product, you won’t be in business long. I’ve tried hard to keep that mindset with me."

Dan Muir (MSE-IOE '03 / MBA '03) is the Chief Technical Officer and Chief Information Security Officer at Archimedes. Dan is also a U.S. explorer and found a work-life balance by taking a year-long sabbatical to travel the lower 48 with his family.

Deliberations were spirited at the inaugural Tauber Trivia Night! The Bananas team (pictured here) and Octopus team gave it their all, but in the end, Master of Ceremonies Matt Gibson announced Team Roman's Hidden Moustache as the champions! Many thanks to our alumni Trivia Masters Asli Aka, Andrew Burgess, and Ray Gonzales for creating the evening's challenging questions.

Is there an opening at your company that could be a great fit for a Tauber grad?

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Connect with Tauber Industry Directory Ray Muscat at the American Manufacturing Strategies Summit, August 23-24, on Zoom and in-person in Houston.

According to sponsoring company calculations, the 2020 Tauber team projects resulted in an average of $31 million per project savings over three years. Total projected savings is over $433 million.