TITLE: Manufacturing
Enterprise Systems and Service Enterprise Systems Research:

Topics
and Winning Strategies

SPEAKER: Dr. Russell
Barton

Program
Director, Manufacturing Enterprise Systems and Service
Enterprise Systems

National
Science Foundation

ABSTRACT:

This
talk will provide a broad survey of research areas supported by
the Manufacturing
Enterprise Systems (MES) and Service Enterprise Systems (SES)
programs at NSF.
It will also cover a number of NSF-wide initiatives related to
systems
engineering issues in health care and manufacturing that are
also important for
prospective proposers, and present a crystal-ball view of
possible future
initiatives. The talk will conclude with a characterization of
winning and
losing strategies for proposal writing for the MES and SES
programs.

Biography

Russell
Barton is Program Director for manufacturing management and
services management
research in the MES and SES programs. These areas have a
combined annual budget
of over $9 million. He is on assignment at NSF from the Smeal
College of
Business at Penn State, where he is a professor in the
Department of Supply
Chain and Information Systems. He previously served as
co-director for the Penn
State Master of Manufacturing Management degree program, and as
associate dean
for research and Ph.D./M.S. programs for the Smeal College. He
holds a B.S. in
electrical engineering from Princeton University and M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees in
operations research from Cornell University.