News for alumni & friends
June 2022
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Greetings!
I hope you are having a wonderful summer! I have been traveling across the country to meet with Tauber students and project sponsors for mid-project reviews, and loved gathering with some of our Seattle alumni while visiting our Boeing and Microsoft project teams. We are thrilled to be planning an in-person SPOTLIGHT! Team Project Showcase and Scholarship Competition in Ann Arbor this September to highlight the fantastic work of our students! We hope you can join us - and we need your input.
Do you know someone who would be an excellent SPOTLIGHT! judge? Each year, the Tauber Institute welcomes leaders from a wide range of industries to evaluate student presentations and select the SPOTLIGHT! winners. If your company is unfamiliar with the Tauber Institute, judging is an excellent way to discover all the benefits that the Tauber program offers our industry partners. Please nominate yourself or another operations leader using this form - or reach out to me with questions.
Go Blue!
Industry Director, Tauber Institute for Global Operations
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Friday, September 16 | Ann Arbor Sheraton
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Announcing the in-person SPOTLIGHT! 2022 Team Project Showcase and Scholarship Competition! Join us on Friday, September 16 at the Ann Arbor Sheraton to explore great new ideas in Operations through presentations of this summer's Tauber team project results. The fun continues on Saturday when we'll gather for the Tauber Alumni & Friends Tailgate outside the Big House. |
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Put Tauber Institute thinking to work for your business! |
While Tauber Institute students are hard at work on solutions for this year's project challenges, Tauber staff are already planning for 2023! This summer, the Tauber Institute is proud to partner with Amazon, American Industrial Partners, The Boeing Company, BrandSafway, Brunswick Corporation, Dell, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Gopuff, Microsoft Corporation, MillerKnoll, NCMS, Pfizer Inc., Stanley Black & Decker (2022 Tauber SBD project team pictured here: Arvind Murugesan Rajamallika, Meredith Maimoni, and Arun Palaniappan), Stoneridge, and Target.
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"My Tauber experience was my first professional experience in the climate tech space. I worked with two MBA students on a project for Pacific Gas & Electric to help this utility assist their commercial customers in switching from conventional vehicles (gasoline or diesel) to electric... I was fascinated with the electric vehicle space and knew I wanted to continue my career in that space."
Tauber alumna Madeline Gilleran (EGL BSE/MSE-ME '19) advises today's students to embrace non-linear career paths and to continue to learn and grow after university! Maddie is currently a senior battery data analyst for the electric vehicle manufacturer Rivian - and studies machine learning in her spare time.
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Lisa Strama receives SME International Honor Award
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Tauber Industry Advisory Board member Lisa Strama, President and CEO of NCMS (National Center for Manufacturing Sciences), recently received the Donald C. Burnham Manufacturing Management Award from SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers). The award recognizes "exceptional success in the integration of the infrastructure and processes of manufacturing through innovative use of human, technical and financial resources."
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U-M awarded #1 public university rank for seventh consecutive year |
The University of Michigan is the top public university in the United States and one of the best higher education institutions in the world, according to the QS World University Rankings 2023 edition released earlier this month. U-M maintained its #1 place among U.S. public universities for the seventh consecutive year and ranked 25th overall out of 1,422 institutions worldwide.
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The Tauber team of Gilbert Pasquale (MBA '22) and Channing Wan (EGL BSE/MSE-IOE '22) focused their efforts to maximize their project impact for Beyond Meat. While measuring Operational Equipment Effectiveness, the team identified a specific machine on the plant floor that had significantly lower availability and performance. Gilbert and Channing organized an Autonomous Maintenance Event and included the machine’s manufacturer, facility management, the maintenance team, and the production team to develop an improvement plan that prevents costly breakdowns.
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How great would it be to work with Tauber grads? |
Our alumni are the Leaders & Best in Operations! Is there an opening at your company that could be a perfect fit for a Tauber grad? Post on our job board.
Recent positions posted by Tauber alumni include:
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BUSINESS + ENGINEERING
+ LEADERSHIP
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