2014 Spring CLGO Governing Board Meeting Held Successfully

On May 27, the Governing Board Meeting of CLGO (China Leaders for Global Operations) opened in School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering at Minhang campus, SJTU. Members present at this meeting included: Vice Dean Dong Ming and operation management Director Jiang Wei of Antai College of Economics and Management, Vice Dean Tai Nengling of School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, CLGO Director Chen Xiaorong, CLGO Enterprises Director Jud Graham, Professor Don Rosenfield, Director of MIT LGO, Professor David Simchi-Levi, Dr. Joshua Jacobs. Representatives of cooperative enterprises included: Hr Manager Audrey Zhang and Operation Manager Zod Mehr of Apple, Supplier Quality Director Charla Serbent of Dell, HR Vice Director Kitty Yao of Esquel Group, Operation Director Duan Bo of Honeywell, HR Director Lin Lin.

First, CLGO project director Chen Xiaorong reviewed progress and achievement in the last few months. CLGO project has won the 2014 Shanghai outstanding teaching award, and ranked 77th in 2014 Global MBA ranking, which headed Shanghai local business schools. In order to help students learn more engineering knowledge, CLGO has strengthened the cooperation with school of engineering and held activities like Engineering Day, during which CLGO students took two afternoons each month and participated in the lectures and laboratory tour at Minhang campus. The employment situation of CLGO 2011 students went well. About half of them took a job in cooperative enterprises and their average salary has reached 276,000. The internship of 2012 students also went well and they have finished the middle-term feedback report recently. 2013 students will participate in many practical projects, which include 22 lion/dragon projects this year. The enrollment of 2014 is going on smoothly as more students with academic excellence and manufacturing and operation background will join CLGO project.

Then, CLGO enterprises director Judson Graham introduced the current situation of internship and problems need to be solved. Professor Jiang Wei shared his opinion on internship from the perspective of a teacher and suggested to prolong the duration of internship and facilitate data collecting, so that students has more time to reflect upon problem and solutions. At last, MIT LGO Professor Don Rosenfield introduced the latest progress of LGO, including enrollment.

SJTU, MIT and representatives of CLGO cooperative enterprises discussed heatedly about how to support the development of CLGO project, how to innovate, and how to continuously add value to cooperative enterprises at this meeting and they pointed out the direction for the future of CLGO project.