Engineering Systems Division (ESD) Working Paper Series: Recent submissions

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    • ESD Summer Reading Lists 2003–2011 

      Sussman, Joseph M. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2011-07)
      Back in 2003, when ESD was a toddler of about 41⁄2, we were preparing for our spring semester offsite traditionally held at the end of the academic year in late May or early June. I had the idea of preparing a short list ...

    • Concepts in Uncertainty—Four brief teaching notes 

      Sussman, Joseph M. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2011-07)
      In Spring 2010 I taught—for the first time—an undergraduate required subject in project evaluation (1.011). In the course of that teaching, I wrote and distributed several teaching notes, which were intended to illustrate ...

    • After Action Reports: Lessons on Vaccine Distribution 

      Hopkins, Julia (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2011-06)
      The responses of individual states to the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic are documented in their After Action Reports (AARs), written in summer 2010. In an attempt to understand how these responses could improve for future pandemics, ...