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 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

	Eugene Kwak, SDM '12 From SpaceX to SDM More>>
	Marwan Hussein, SDM '12 Complexity and Interplanetary Space Systems More>>

Alumni

Stephen Friedenthal, SDM '04 Engineering and Management: Having the Best of Both Worlds More>>

Faculty

Maria Yang, Assistant Professor Illustrating the Benefits of Systems Thinking and Early Stage Product Design More>>

Industry

	Elon Musk, SpaceX, Tesla Innovation, Global Impact, and Achieving Success More>>
	Lisa Steinhoff, bioMérieux Developing Product Requirements Criteria More>>

Events

SDM Information Evening
Monday, June 4, 2012
MIT Faculty Club
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Save the Date!
2012 MIT SDM Conference on Systems Thinking for Contemporary Challenges
October 22-23, 2012
Details TBA in early summer

News

WiSDM: 2011 Report
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Katy O'Brien, SDM '12: The Power of Engineering and Management
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2010–2011 SDM Employment Report
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Michael Seelhof, SDM '12: A Banker Adds Theory to Experience in Managing Complexity
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Jake Whitcomb, SDM '12: Sustainability Requires Systems Engineering
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Ming Fai Wong, SDM '12: A Systems Approach to Singapore's IT
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SDM Pulse Newsletter
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Video presentations from 2011 MIT SDM Conference on Systems Thinking for Contemporary Challenges
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