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Yoav Shapira, SDM '05: From SDM, Around the World, to Happier.com SDM alum Yoav Shapira is the type of person everyone would like as a friend, advisor, and colleague—especially when deciphering, debugging, and deploying a complex software development project. He is an engineer by training and a manager of talent at heart. read article>>		Yoav Shapira SDM '05
Evaluating Complex Dynamic System Architectures: NASCAR Chassis Setup and Development For several years, I was an independent contractor for Ford Racing. I helped enhance the performance of the five drivers on Ford's two leading NASCAR Sprint Cup Series teams, Roush Fenway Racing and Richard Petty Motorsports. As a chassis systems engineer, I juggled a host of variables that affect a race car's performance, balance, drivability, and tire life. It's a complex system that requires in-depth preparation and split-second decisions. It also varies from track to track and driver to driver. read article>>		Scott Ahlman SDM '01
Chunguang Charlotte Wang SDM '10: SMART Coops Team Win Community Choice Award in MIT IDEAS Competition Charlotte Wang of MIT's System Design and Management Program (SDM) and her teammates received a Community Choice award of $1,500 in MIT's annual IDEAS Competition and Global Challenge. SMART (Sustainable Management of Agricultural Resources and Trade) Coops is a mobile banking and payment platform to connect farmers in the Philippines to their agricultural cooperatives and in turn to banks, input suppliers, government agencies, and crop buyers via SMS text messaging. read article>>		Chunguang Charlotte Wang SDM '10
Lisa Cratty, SDM '01: Applying SDM Lessons Across Diverse Industries Ten years have passed since I enrolled in MIT's System Design and Management (SDM) program. Since then, my career has taken me from the automotive industry to baby products to medical devices. Yet, the systems thinking and skills I learned in SDM have proved highly transferable, helping me to address a variety of challenges in different settings. read article>>		Lisa Cratty SDM '01
Jean-Claude Saghbini, SDM '03: Systems Thinking for Tracking Medical Devices Designing a system to track medical devices from manufacturing to patient requires leveraging the latest RFID, cloud, and mobile technologies. Building that system requires mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and software development. And growing a medical device tracking business requires coordinating this diverse engineering mission with a sales and marketing effort aimed at multiple constituents: medical device manufacturers, hospital administrators, and healthcare providers. read article>>		Jean-Claude Saghbini SDM '03
Malvern Atherton, SDM '04: Systems Thinking and the Human Components of Flight Although the Rolls-Royce brand may evoke thoughts of royalty for some consumers, the office of Malvern Atherton, an SDM alumnus and the company's chief design engineer for control systems in Indianapolis, is strikingly meritocratic. An open-plan area with low cubicle walls allows him to sit among his staff engineers, exchanging creative ideas and reviewing their proposals. With 20 years of experience engineering jet engine control systems, Atherton is well equipped to decide whether or not to approve each design. read article>>		Malvern Atherton SDM '04
Hamilton Sundstrand VP Still Values Early SDM Experience More than a decade after graduating from MIT's System Design and Management Program (SDM), Hamilton Sundstrand Vice President and General Manager Tom Pelland, SDM '98, says systems thinking is more valuable in aerospace today than ever before. read article>>		Tom Pelland SDM '98
Engineering and Management Expertise Propel Cloud Computing For Brian Ippolito, SDM '98, the combination of engineering and management expertise isn't just a competitive advantage, it's a necessity. Ippolito, CEO of Orbis Technologies, Inc., leads a company that helps organizations manage mind-boggling amounts of information. read article>>		Brian Ippolito SDM '98
Alumnus Applies SDM Lessons to Aerospace Industry Bob Smith, SDM '97, doesn't take systems thinking lightly. As chief technology officer of Honeywell Aerospace, he's using everything he learned in MIT's System Design and Management Program (SDM)—and more—to consider how to change the way aircraft fly. The goal is to minimize delays, ease congestion, and improve fuel efficiency. read article>>		Bob Smith SDM '97
Evolving from Software Engineer to Consultant As a kid growing up in Nigeria, I always liked building things. When my parents needed help putting together something like a stereo, I was the one who helped. I liked learning about technology and became pretty savvy at an early age. read article>>		Trinidad Grange-Kyner SDM '08 Photo courtesy of Deloitte Consulting LLP
SDM Alum Named Boeing Technical Fellow On January 4, 2010, SDM alumnus Dr. Jean Dolne was promoted to the rank of technical fellow at The Boeing Company. This honor places him among the top 1 percent of Boeing's entire technical force and the top 0.5 percent of the company's workforce overall. read article>>		Dr. Jean Dolne SDM '05
Engineering and Management: Having the Best of Both Worlds Halfway through my engineering and management studies at MIT's System Design and Management Program, my vision for who I could be expanded in ways that I never imagined before coming to MIT. read article>>		Stephen Friedenthal SDM '04
An MBA or an MIT Master's in Engineering and Management? Almost midway through my engineering consulting career, I found myself wondering whether to pursue an MBA or a master's in engineering and management. read article>>		Charles V. Atencio SDM '09
Ampair Energy Receives Funding from Sigma Sustainable Energy Fund II Ampair Energy Limited is pleased to announce that the Sigma Sustainable Energy Fund II has committed £1.5 million to Ampair Energy Limited ("Ampair"). The company's CEO is David Sharman, an alumnus of MIT's System Design and Management Program. read article>>		David Sharman SDM '01 Photo courtesy of Ampair
Medicine and Engineering: SDM Student Applies Systems Thinking to Health Care Sahar Hashmi, SDM '09, is a medical doctor who came to the System Design and Management Program (SDM) to pursue her passion for research and her ultimate goal of improving the health-care system by focusing on better tools for measuring patient outcomes. Sahar, who is also a PhD student in MIT's Engineering Systems Division (ESD), in which SDM resides, attended medical school in Pakistan. After graduation, she started doing research at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. She also has a sister at MIT, Nada Hashmi, an SDM alumna who is currently a PhD student at MIT Sloan. read article>>		Sahar Hashmi SDM '09
Managing System Design, Managing System Change How can organizations perform organizational assessments to better support enterprise transformation? Leyla Abdimomunova, who will graduate from MIT's System Design and Management Program in September 2010, has conducted her thesis research to address this question. read article>>		Leyla Abdimomunova SDM '09 Photo by L. Barry Hetherington
Systems Thinking, India, and the Big Picture Today, more than ever, India is associated with engineering. But India has been an engineer-creating society for a long time, certainly since Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru helped establish the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) in 1950s. This is where I received my master's in industrial design in 1997. read article>>		Vineet Thuvara SDM '05 Photo by L. Barry Hetherington
Oil Spills, Safety, and System Design and Management As oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico from the recent catastrophic BP blowout, MIT System Design and Management student Adama Soro '09 can only shake his head. read article>>		Adama Soro SDM '09 Photo by Kathy Tarantola Photography
Saying 'No' to a Hobson’s Choice In 2001 I was working for a large telecommunications company. Starting with a mere handful of engineers, I built a team that had grown to 60, was supporting thousands of end-users, and was integral to launching a new business line. The company’s management, impressed by the team’s performance, came to me and asked if I wanted to stay close to the technology or to manage people. read article>>		Geoff Langos SDM '02