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Join us on Wednesday, January 19 to learn about MIT’s master’s degree in engineering and management! Current students and program staff will be available to answer your
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Ignacio Vazquez Rodarte SDM’20 is the 2021 recipient of the MIT SDM Student Award for Leadership, Innovation, and Systems Thinking. Ignacio’s extensive involvement with SDM
![Headshot of Ryan Montvydas](https://sdm.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/ryan-montvydas-trimmed-600x350.jpeg)
B.S., Civil Engineering Ryan Montvydas joins SDM after four tours with the U.S. Coast Guard, serving not only in the United States but also in the Middle East. He’s familiar
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Join us online on Tuesday, December 7, 2021 for a free systems thinking webinar with Emad Zand, Gayle Sheppard, and Zach Holmes of Microsoft Azure. The talk will stream live
![Headshot of Jack Yao](https://sdm.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-04-at-11.03.15-AM-e1636038308891-600x350.png)
by Kathryn O’Neill When Covid-19 lockdowns forced legions of employees to work from home in 2020, Jack Yao SDM ’15 saw a huge leap in demand at his startup, Mobile
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Join us on Wednesday, November 17 to learn about MIT’s master’s degree in engineering and management! Current students and program staff will be available to answer your
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Join us online on Tuesday, October 19, 2021 for a free systems thinking webinar with Caitlin Mueller, associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s
![Students gather around a Lego rover, which is navigating a model of the Martian landscape](https://sdm.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/bootcamp2021mars-trimmed-600x350.jpeg)
Join us on Thursday, September 16 to learn about MIT’s master’s degree in engineering and management! Current students and program staff will be available to answer your
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B.S., Mechanical Engineering Jessy Mwarage is a senior staff engineer at Rivian working on diagnostic testing for the automotive company in Palo Alto, CA. He’s looking forward
![Headshot of Tomohisa Okamoto](https://sdm.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Tom-Okamoto-trimmed-600x350.jpeg)
Tomohisa Okamoto came to the System Design and Management program in 2019, planning to learn how to apply systems thinking principles to his work at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in