Faculty
Thomas Roemer is a Senior Lecturer in Operations Management and has served as the Executive Director of the Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) Program since July 2014.
Roemer is interested in the intersection of engineering and management and, in particular, the value creation during the design, manufacture, and delivery of products. His research on product development, design for manufacturing, machine scheduling, and inventory theory has been published in leading journals. He has taught classes in operations management and strategy, product design and development, quantitative analysis, and business ethics.
From 2000 to 2006, Roemer was an Assistant Professor at MIT Sloan, where he served as the first MIT-Ford Faculty Fellow and was named the Robert N. Noyce Assistant Professor in Operations Management. From 2006 to 2014, he was on the faculty at the Rady School of Management at the University of California at San Diego, where he helped create the Architecture-based Enterprise Systems Engineering (AESE) Program. He also served as associate director of the Program. He has won numerous teaching awards at the Rady School and, in 2009, received the award for “Outstanding Faculty Teaching” from the Graduate Student Association at UCSD.
Roemer received a Diplom-Ingenieur degree from the Technische Universität Berlin and his PhD from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.
Roemer, T., R. Ahmadi, and S. Dasu. Discrete Applied Mathematics Vol. 160, No. 12 (2012): 1798-1814.
Roemer, T., and R. Ahmadi. European Journal of Operational Research Vol. 203, No. 3 (2010): 601-613.
Arslan, Hasan, Stephen C. Graves and Thomas A. Roemer. Management Science Vol. 53, No. 9 (2007): 1486-1500.
Arslan, H., S. Graves, and T. Roemer. Management Science Vol. 53, No. 9 (2007): 1486-1500.
Helminen, P., K. Holtta-Otto, K. Ekman, and T. Roemer. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education, 2007.
Roemer, T. Journal of Scheduling Vol. 9, No. 4 (2006): 389-396.
The MIT LGO program today announced that Blue Origin—the aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company—has become the newest member of its industry partnerships.
The MIT LGO program announced today that NextEra Energy. Inc. (NYSE: NEE) has become the newest member of its industry partnerships.
"MIT was my top choice because I valued its emphasis on technology and innovation."
Manufacturing for...ventilators was being held up by the delivery of the right bolts. “...something that is actually fairly easy to manufacture.”
One of the principal purposes of keeping low inventory and relying on just-in-time has always been to find, and resolve, problems faster.
This supply chain management course presents innovative strategies and best practices for improving supply chain performance. It introduces a unique MIT framework, using the concept of technology clockspeed, for strategically managing and optimizing supply chains. Participants gain a deeper understanding of supply chain integration, technology sourcing, make-buy decisions, strategic partnering and outsourcing, and IT and decision-support systems.
This operations management course offers unique, MIT-developed approaches to business operations strategy based on best-practice research conducted among the world’s leading companies. The program helps participants plan the most efficient use of material resources and manage complicated global networks. It also offers analytical, strategic insights into vertical integration, outsourcing, product strategy, supplier management, process technologies, capacity and risk management, and global networks.
