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Tauber Launches 2015 Team Projects
ANN ARBOR, Mich., — The Tauber Institute for Global Operations launched thirty-five team projects sponsored by 23 top global firms for the summer of 2015 at the official Kickoff dinner on March 10 at the Ross School of Business. New company sponsors include Guardian Industries and American Industrial Partners. Tauber alumnus Benjamin Ranta (MBA and MSE-IOE '15) shared his valuable experience and offered insight into what to expect for the 89 students. Benjamin's team won tied for 1st place in the 2013 Spotlight! Team Project Showcase Scholarship Competition.
A signature initiative of the Tauber Institute, team projects unite top students and companies from a variety of industries in a 14-week multidisciplinary, collaborative project. Each 2-3 person project team is made up of Masters of Engineering, MBA, and/or MSCM students. Along with receiving executive support from the company, each team is advised by a College of Engineering and a Ross School of Business faculty advisor and overseen by a Tauber Institute Co-Director. The projects provides significant return on a sponsoring company’s investment (for many projects, it is millions of dollars) as well as improvements in areas such as CO2 emissions, energy consumption, throughput time, and supply chain risk.
Students are notified of their team at the kick-off dinner. Executive summaries of team projects will be available in September upon project completion.
See images from Kickoff 2015.
About Tauber Institute for Global Operations
The Tauber Institute for Global Operations is a joint venture between the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the College of Engineering, and many industry partners to facilitate cross-disciplinary education in global operations management. In addition to broad array of core and elective courses, the innovative LeadershipAdvantageSM Program provides students with the tools to ascend to major operations leadership roles. Well-designed and managed team projects form the cornerstone of the Tauber Institute experience and allow students to apply their knowledge to real world settings. The Tauber Institute is an inaugural recipient of the UPS George D. Smith Prize for effective and innovative preparation of students to be good practitioners of operations research, management science, or analytics. http://www.tauber.umich.edu
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