Internship Seminar 12:00 - 2:00, Sept 3:

The TPP Internship Seminar is required for all students who have had TPP internship funding or foreign nationals who had summer internships in the USA. We encourage others to attend and/or make presentations of their internship or job experiences. A strongly-recommended resume-writing/ job search session is planned for Wednesday, September 3 with lunch.

A brief organizational meeting will be held on Sept 3, with the resume-writing/ job search session planned for the following week’s session.

Registration 1:00 - 5:00, Tuesday Sept 2

TPP will hold walk-in registration meetings from 1:00 - 5:00 in the Lounge on September 2. These will be on a first-come, first-served basis, but there may be long waits at times. We will honor our sign-up list as best we can. The Welcome/Welcome-Back Dinner has been pushed back a week or so. Details will follow.

Re-Orientation 10:30 - 12:00, followed by the ESD BBQ 12:00 - 2:00, Tuesday Sept 2

The REQUIRED Re-Orientation session has been rescheduled to the morning of Registration Day, from 10:30 to Noon, Tuesday, September 2 in room E51-315. We will discuss the necessary steps and timelines for degree completion, including the TPP thesis and curriculum approval processes, dual degree petitions, and the doctoral admission process. An ESD BBQ follows from Noon to 2:00 outside Walker Memorial.

Please pass this to anyone you think may be interested (all sources). Thanks. Camille Mittelholtz 202 366-4861
GS-12/13, Environmental Protection Specialist

It is posted on USAjobs, DOT OST.P-2008-0004. The ad is open until June 27.

This position is located in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy, Office of Safety, Energy and Environment, Environment Team. The Environmental Protection Specialist is responsible for: developing and coordinating policies, procedures and programs related to environment and transportation within DOT and with other Federal departments and agencies; reviewing environmental documents and recommending action on the most complex and environmentally controversial of transportation projects and activities proposed or assisted by the Department; and initiating and monitoring research and studies on environmental issues relating to transportation.

Dr. Sam Newell will be presenting to The MIT Energy Club today at lunch time during a recruiting information session.  Please contact the Energy Club for more details.

The next TMP Student Consortium will be held June 22-24, 2008 in Utrecht, The Netherlands. It is being jointly sponsored by Utrecht University and the Technical University of Delft.

Both TMP and TPP students have attended these meetings in the past. At this point, all we have is the announcement, but there will be more details coming — particularly guidelines for presentation and poster session proposal submissions.

OMB, the Office of Management and Budget is recruiting summer interns, who must be US citizens.

Information about OMB is available at http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/ and interested applicants should forward their resumes to Sharon Warner at Sharon_A._Warner “at” omb.eop.gov

If you are interested in learning more about OMB, please talk to Robert Love, who had a summer internship there last year, or the TPP students who participated in any of the Washington DC winter trips. There are also several TPP alumni working at OMB, who would be happy to discuss the organization further.

Issues in Technology and Policy Seminar Series
Renee Robins
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)

Many policy issues involve the application, commercialization, and control of technologies. This annual seminar series explores selected issues in technology and policy, such as the technology & policy of global warming; problems with the country’s air transportation system, the future of space travel, and other current topics. Bring brown bag lunch; light refreshments provided.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/tpp
Contact: Renee Robins, E40-381, x3-7662, rrobins@mit.edu
Sponsor: Technology and Policy Program

Considering Risk and Uncertainty in Designing Climate Policy
Mort Webster
A public policy response to the threat of global climate change requires explicit consideration of the scientific, technological and economic uncertainties. In this talk, Prof. Webster will show how formal modeling of the economic and earth systems and their uncertainties can inform how we design our policy solutions to be robust and to manage risks.
Tue Jan 8, 12-01:30pm, E51-149

Space Logistics: Enabler of the New Frontier and Current Research Challenges
Olivier de Weck
Will the 21st century see a human outpost on the moon and our first footsteps on Mars? Successfully undertaking such long-range, long-duration exploration represents a formidable policy, technology and logistics challenge. This talk will draw an analogy between interplanetary logistics as a future enabler and how better logistics management and new technologies led to accelerated exploration of Antarctica after 1913.
Tue Jan 15, 12-01:30pm, E51-149

MIT’s Global Airline Industry Program: Research on the National Air Transportation System
Cynthia Barnhart
In this talk, Prof. Barnhart will describe the mission, people involved and some of the research being conducted as part of MIT’s Global Airline Industry Program. In particular, she will address ongoing and new efforts to reconfigure and manage our national air transportation system, efforts aimed at more effectively utilizing existing system capacity and reducing passenger delays.
Tue Jan 22, 12-01:30pm, E51-149

The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship will provide fellowship support for aspiring entrepreneurs to spend two years at MIT acquiring the knowledge and skills required for successful business development and civic leadership in developing nations around the world. Graduate students enrolled in programs across the campus will be eligible for Legatum Fellowships.

For more information visit: http://www.lcde.org

The Washington Internship Trip is scheduled for January 23 and 24. You should plan to arrive by Tuesday evening, January 22 and to schedule any additional meetings and follow-up interviews for Friday January 25. US citizens are likely to have interviews scheduled at OMB on Friday morning, unless they have indicated that they will not be available for an internship there this summer.
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