Principal Investigator David Simchi-Levi
Co-investigators James M Lyneis , Dov Dori , Stuart Madnick , Charles Fine , Richard de Neufville , Olivier deWeck , Michael Davies , Michael Cusumano , Bruce Cameron , Nancy Leveson , David Hardt , Thomas Magnanti , Randolph Kirchain , Nicholas Ashford , Steven Eppinger , Daniel Frey , Maria Yang , John Williams , Henry Weil , Irving Wladawsky , Eric von Hippel , James Utterback , John Sterman , Steven Spear , Shalom Saada Saar , Joan Rubin , Adam Ross , Donna Rhodes , Nelson Repenning , Eric Rebentisch , Charles Oman , Bryan Moser
Project Website http://sdm.mit.edu/
MIT's System Design and Management (SDM) program, offered jointly by the School of Engineering and the MIT Sloan School of Management, is a master's program for technical professionals seeking to build upon their backgrounds and experience in order to advance to positions of leadership in their profession.
The program leads to a Master of Science in Engineering and Management and represents a partnership of industry, government, and MIT for educating technically grounded leaders of 21st-century enterprises. It is MIT's first degree program to be offered with a distance learning option in addition to a full-time in-residence option.
SDM students describe the curriculum as rigorous, demanding, eye-opening, mind-expanding, life changing and rewarding. But be forewarned: the SDM degree is not an M.B.A. SDM’s three-tiered curriculum gives all students a common understanding of what it means to take a systems approach to the world while allowing them the flexibility to customize the program to support individual professional goals.
System Design & Management (SDM) has an interdisciplinary curriculum that is taught by faculty experts from all departments in MIT’s School of Engineering and Sloan School of Management as well by faculty from MIT’s School of Science and School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.