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Print Edition StoriesTuesday, July 7, 2009
Northeastern U., Veterans Affairs team on engineering
By Mass High Tech staff
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Northeastern University and the New England Veterans Affairs Health System have teamed up to form a systems engineering center whose mission is to make engineering advances that will help veterans hospitals and potentially others over time.
The effort also includes the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Known as the New England Healthcare Engineering Partnership, the effort is set to get $3.4 million annually from grant and matching funds from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Northeastern says the center’s goal is to develop “safe, effective and reliable health care processes.”
“We want to do for health care what the Toyota Production System, Six Sigma, quality management and industrial engineering did for the automobile and other industries,” James Benneyan, executive director of the center and a professor of industrial and mechanical engineering at Northeastern, said in a news release..
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