Monica Rossi
Core Faculty | Associate Professor
Monica is faculty member of Polimi GSOM and assistant professor at Politecnico di Milano, where she got her PhD in Industrial Engineering in 2014. She has held visiting researcher positions at MIT, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Sorbonne UTC and Rutgers University. She teaches Product Lifecycle Management and Industrial Technologies at MSc, and Lean Product Development at executive master. She publishes in international journals such as Computer in Industry, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management and International Journal of Project Management. She won a Shingo Prize research Award for Lean Product and Process Development Chapter within the book The Routledge Companion to Lean Managemen ...
Education
PHD: Management Economics and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano.
Master of Science: Management Engineering, Politecnico di Milano.
Monica’s research methodology strongly builds on practice, with three main areas of action: -Exploration of enterprises’ life cycle thinking attitude by investigating product development, design and engineering processes through empirical research, mainly case studies -Action research to estimate the effects of applying lean thinking to product and process development, design and engineering (in any industrial sector and including startups) in the digital era with a special focus on sustainable development -Development and application of serious games to both students and practitioners to assess the effect of innovative teaching methods on the ability to learn engineering concepts.
