System Design and Management

Master's Program in Engineering and Management at MIT

Jointly offered by MIT's School of Engineering and the MIT Sloan School of Management, the System Design and Management (SDM) master's program in engineering and management educates mid-career professionals to lead effectively and creatively by using systems thinking to solve large-scale, complex challenges in product design, development, and innovation.

SDM offers full-time on-campus and part-time flex options that include commuter and distance learning opportunities. Together they combine MIT’s academic rigor with state-of-the-art, synchronous technology that enables off-campus students to attend live classes with their cohort and work on team assignments with classmates from around the world.

SDM provides a global mindset; a systems thinking perspective that integrates management, technology, and social sciences; and ways to lead across organizational and cultural boundaries to address rapidly accelerating complexity and change in today's global markets.

The curriculum of MIT's System Design and Management program encompasses leadership development and critical, creative, and integrative thinking as well as an appreciation of diversity and an understanding of how to foster positive change within organizations, society at large, and—most importantly—within oneself.

Students

	Christine Meier, SDM '13 Diversity, Organizational Transformation, and Systems Thinking More>>
	Elizabeth Cilley Southerlan, SDM '12 Receives SDM Award for Leadership, Innovation, Systems Thinking More>>

Alumni

Trinidad Grange-Kyner, SDM '08 Evolving from Software Engineer to Consultant More>>

Faculty

	Richard de Neufville, Professor Implementing Flexibility in Engineering Design More>>
	Steven Eppinger, Professor A Systems Engineering View of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner More>>

Industry

Paul Levy Cultivating Leadership for Learning Organizations More>>

Events

SDM Systems Thinking Webinar Series
Applying Systems Thinking to World Hunger:
Seeking Solutions in Agriculture, Food Production, and Sustainability July 15, 2013
Details>>

News

SDM Pulse, Spring 2013
Details>>

Systems Thinking Webinar Series Marks Significant Milestone
Details>>

Jonathan Pratt Named SDM's Director of Career Development and Recruiting
Details>>

SDMs Join First MEMPC Simulation Competition
Details>>

Ben Levitt, SDM '12: Using Systems Thinking for Sports Analytics and Defense
Details>>

SDM Fellows Create MIT's First BigData Club
Details>>

Follow Us