Steven Eppinger

Steve Eppinger, General Motors Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management and Professor of Management Science and Innovation, was chosen to deliver the 2024 OMEGA RHO Distinguished Lecture on Operations Research and Management Science, a lecture series presented as a plenary at ORSA/TIMS (Operations Research Society of America/The Institute of Management Sciences) and INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Meetings. This award is sponsored by the Omega Rho Honor Society, which promotes and recognizes superior scholarship and leadership in operations research and management science (and formally became part of INFORMS in 1998). Eppinger is the sixth MIT faculty member to receive this honor over the past four decades.

Eppinger presented his lecture, titled "Adventures in Engineering Management," as a keynote at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in October 2024 in Seattle. 

Steve Eppinger has been named a 2023 Fellow of the Design Society, “an international interdisciplinary community of academics and industry practitioners who share a common interest in developing and promoting a robust, usable, and scalable means of designing complex solutions that are necessary for a sustainable and globalized society to continue to thrive.”

This honor recognizes outstanding contributions to the Society through service, practice, teaching, and research.

Steven Eppinger has been honored with Runner Up for thePOMS (Production and Operations Management Society) Wickham Skinner Award fo rBest Paper published in Production and Operations Management during 2013. The winning paper, "Structuring Work Distribution for Global Product Development Organizations," is co-authored with MIT Sloan PhD graduate Anshuman Tripathy.

Steven Eppinger has received the 2015 Distinguished Speaker Award from the Technology, Innovation Management, and Entrepreneurship Section (TIMES) of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences). This award recognizes Eppinger as “an outstanding academic leader in the field of technology management.”

Steve Eppinger was invited to deliver the autumn 2019 Technical University of Denmark Ørsted Lecture. The aim of the lecture series is “to stimulate new thoughts and new scientific approaches by presenting topics that will change our future,” with “the most advanced and frontier breaking research.” This biannual event commemorates the university’s founder, Hans Christian Ørsted, who discovered electromagnetism. Eppinger joins a distinguished list of invited lecturers who are leading scientists from the fields of science and engineering, including several Nobel laureates.  

Steven Eppinger is the recipient of the PICMET Medal of Excellence Award, given by the Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET). This award “recognizes extraordinary achievements of individuals in any discipline for their outstanding contributions to science, engineering and technology management.”