Skype chief evangelist joins MIT SDM program
For Andres Kütt, chief evangelist at Skype and a member of the System Design and Management (SDM) class entering in 2011, embracing his inner geek is second nature.He began at Skype in 2005 as an...
View ArticleMIT team wins Berkeley-Stanford Green Entrepreneurship Competition
A team of MIT students took home the grand prize at the 2011 Berkeley-Stanford Cleantech (BSC) Launchpad, a prestigious green entrepreneurship competition.The PolyChroma team includes Marnix Hollander...
View ArticleMIT SDM joins Master of Engineering Management Programs Consortium
MIT's System Design and Management (SDM) Program has announced it is joining the Master of Engineering Management Programs Consortium (MEMPC), a select group of forward-thinking professional graduate...
View ArticleSystems thinking conference highlights practical applications in healthcare,...
Whatever your profession, systems thinking is critical for success in the global economy, according to speakers at the 2011 MIT SDM Conference on Systems Thinking for Contemporary Challenges. The...
View ArticleJake Whitcomb, SDM '12: Sustainability Requires Systems Engineering
Early in life, Jake Whitcomb, SDM '12, was a world-class competitive cross-country skier. Several years spent training in Norway exposed the American to a more sustainable society. "What I found was a...
View ArticleMing Fai Wong, SDM '12: A systems approach to Singapore's IT
It's easy to joke about the complexity of government bureaucracies, but the task of re-engineering and streamlining the information technology (IT) systems throughout a national government is a serious...
View ArticleMichael Seelhof, SDM '12: a banker adds theory to experience in managing...
You'd think that merging two investment banks at the height of a global financial meltdown would be enough complexity for one lifetime. But the experience left Michael Seelhof, SDM '12, wanting more....
View ArticleKaty O’Brien, SDM ’12: the power of engineering and management
Katy O’Brien, a member of the MIT System Design and Management (SDM) cohort that matriculated on Jan. 4, 2012, holds a BS in mechanical engineering from Tufts University, with honors. Upon graduating,...
View ArticleRajesh Nair, SDM ’12: systems thinking for looking ahead and paying forward
Rajesh Nair, SDM '12, is successful because he practices prognostication. He looks for signs, predicts where the world is going, anticipates problems and figures out how to solve them. In looking at...
View ArticleSolhee Lee, SDM ’12: systems thinking for the next generation
Solhee Lee, 31, is expecting her first child in May. When Lee’s daughter grows older, the SDM fellow says she will explain what it means to develop technology that makes vehicles safer. She’ll relate...
View ArticleHaibo Wang, SDM ’12: Systems thinking makes surgeries safer
Haibo Wang, a first-year fellow in MIT’s System Design and Management (SDM) program, is a biomedical engineer who comes to SDM with a solid technical background and nine years of industry experience....
View ArticleMarwan Hussein SDM '12: Complexity and Interplanetary Space Systems
Marwan Hussein SDM '12 is truly a man of the world. German-born and of Iraqi descent, he lived in Jordan before moving to Canada, and his work takes him to places ranging from the Arizona desert to the...
View ArticleA rocket man settles into SDM
System Design and Management student Eugene Kwak literally had a front-row seat in the ambitious private-sector space race.Kwak, who is a member of the SDM class that entered in 2012, was the lead...
View ArticleESD Interim Director Joseph Sussman discusses the case for complex...
Joseph Sussman, JR East Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems and interim director of the MIT Engineering Systems Division, presented this year’s Charles L. Miller...
View ArticleThe secrets of the system
As the United States seeks to reinvigorate its job market and move past economic recession, MIT News examines manufacturing’s role in the country’s economic future through this series on work at the...
View ArticleAircraft engineered with failure in mind may last longer
Complex systems inhabit a “gray world” of partial failures, MIT’s Olivier de Weck says: While a system may continue to operate as a whole, bits and pieces inevitably degrade. Over time, these small...
View ArticleBetter product design through a simple square chart
Suppose you were asked to streamline the process of real estate development. Or to better organize the offices of an international manufacturer. Or to explain how the parts of a digital printer...
View ArticleA world of OCW benefits: Powering career advancement
Ziya Deniz Eralp’s passion for learning has allowed him to comfortably straddle the worlds of both industry and academia, and eventually move from his native Turkey to the MIT campus. His journey began...
View ArticlePaying it forward through engineering
Several years ago, System Design and Management (SDM) Fellow Rajesh Nair returned to his native India and noticed that the television stations focused almost solely on Bollywood stars and overpaid...
View ArticleDestination known
The travel bug hit Jan Ma LGO ’14 when she was very young. As a toddler, she accompanied her mother on many business trips throughout China. Ma was too young to remember the destinations, so she now...
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