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Alumnus Erwin Franz SDM ’19 has co-authored a paper in the proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC). The paper
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Alumnus Erwin Franz SDM ’19 has co-authored a paper in the proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society

Alumnus Anuraag Singh SDM ’18 is the lead author on a paper in Research Policy that offers a new way to assess the performance of future technological improvements. Singh

Indrayud Mandal, a current SDM fellow, will co-present a pre-conference workshop at the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference on March 6th and 7th, 2021. “Using Tactile

Pankhuri Sen, SDM ’20 and a research assistant in MIT’s AutoID Laboratory was featured in MIT News for the laboratory’s work on RFID sensors that could be

Submitted by Aravind Asokan. Abstract: Commercial flight operations have seen the consistent reduction of flight crew from five to two over the past several decades. As technology

Submitted by Jean-Michel Prouillet-Leplat. Abstract: The pace of technology development shapes the landscape of almost every industry today. The words innovation, digital

Submitted by Javier Gotschlich Praus. Abstract: This paper examines how fuel tax policies affect the generation of revenue to maintain the US road infrastructure. Currently,

In the spring of 2018, System Design and Management hosted a symposium on characterizing the gap between strategy and implementation. This symposium featured original work from

An MIT team, including one SDM fellow, took second place in NASA’s 2019 BIG Idea Challenge. Tommy Smith joined SDM in 2018 and participated in the student team’s

SDM alum Sorin Grama’s venture Transaera was named a finalist for the Global Cooling Prize, an international innovation competition focused on developing efficient and