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TMP Consortium at U Porto Rescheduled for 2021

In the face of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the organizers of the TMP Consortium meeting slated for June 14-16 of 2020 have decided to reschedule the next physical meeting of the TMP Consortium to next year.

The TMP Consortium member universities are considering putting on a virtual meeting during 2020, but final decisions are pending.

Below is the text of the email sent to the TMP community this evening:

Dear colleagues,

The health and well-being of the TMP Consortium community is our highest concern. Due to the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made the difficult decision to postpone the next TMP Consortium, to be hosted by the University of Porto, for 2021.

With the current assessment by the World Health Organization that the pandemic is accelerating, and an increasing number of regions declaring a state of emergency, this is the most sensible course of action.

Holding a virtual event this year is a possibility that we would ask each participant program to assess. Please let us know as soon as possible of your interest.

We all share the disappointment for this postponement, but also the resolve to do what is best for our community and those around us. Our thoughts go out to all who are suffering with the pandemic, and we hope its impact may be as limited as possible.

Thank you for your understanding and support.

João Claro

Associate Professor
Industrial Engineering and Management
Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto

More information on the possibility of a virtual session will be posted here.

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A Successful TMP Meeting At GWU

This year’s TMP meeting was a great success! We had two days of excellent talks by our student participants, offering a broad survey of the nature and depth of work being done at the member universities in the area of technology, management, and policy.

Thanks to GWU and the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering for hosting, as well as to all the faculty and students who so graciously gave of their time and hospitality to make it such a wonderful event.

A noted above, the student presentations this year were excellent, and the faculty debates around identifying honorees was quite spirited. Ultimately, two presenters were selected for recognition of the high quality of presentations. This year’s winners of best presentation(s) are:

  • Suparna Mukherjee (GWU): “Complex engineering and the platform economy” and
  • Magdalena Klemun (MIT): “Soft and hard factors affecting the cost evolution of low-carbon energy technologies”

All presentations titles and their associated pabels are available online.

Next year’s Consortium meeting will be held in Porto, Portugal, hosted by the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, where they offer the Doctoral Program in Engineering and Public Policy. Dates have not been set, but will be announced here when finalized.

Again, thanks to our colleagues at the George Washington University, as well as to all this year’s participants!

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TMP Consortium WWW Site

After much shilly-shallying, I have gotten around to getting this set up.  I’ll be trying to populate it with past information about the TMP Student Consortium meetings, which have been going on for more than a decade.  Here, we are trying to establish a standing “home” for information about the event going forward.

Thanks to everyone for the help (and the prodding to get going on this!)

Frank Field, Technology & Policy Program, MIT