System Design and Management

System Design and Management (SDM) is an interdisciplinary and integrated program that educates experienced professionals who will lead the design and management of complex products, organizations and systems. Offered jointly by MIT Sloan and the Engineering Systems Division in the MIT School of Engineering, SDM leads to a Master of Science in Engineering and Management. SDM is a partnership among industry, government, and MIT for educating technically grounded leaders of 21st-century enterprises.It is MITs first degree program to offer distance-learning, commuter, and full-time in-residence options. See the Engineering Systems Division graduate program description for more information.

Master's Program in Engineering and Management at MIT

Cosponsored 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.

System Design and Management (MIT)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia System Design and Management (SDM) is a graduate program leading to a Masters degree in Engineering and Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. SDM is MIT's first graduate-level career-compatible degree granting program, offering fulltime on-campus,part-time commuter, and distance learning options. MIT created SDM to educate future technical leaders in the design and engineering of complex products and systems. Created in 1996, the program stresses leadership and management skills necessary to work successfully across organizations. SDM, a program within the Engineering Systems Division, is jointly sponsored by the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT School of Engineering. It provides engineering depth and management breadth, and leads to a degree in Engineering and Management granted by the two schools. Student's enrolled in the PhD program in Engineering Systems Division often enroll in SDM program to complete their graduate courses. Over 450 students from dozens of organizations representing a wide range of industries have attended SDM. More than half of recently matriculated SDM students hold Masters or Doctoral degrees earned prior to entering the program. SDMs expanded offerings include a one-year graduate certificate program in systems engineering taught primarily at a distance and a five-day workshop in systems engineering for organizational leaders. The System Design and Management Program resides within MITs Engineering Systems Division, an interdisciplinary unit dedicated to transforming engineering education, research, and practice to address systems in all dimensions: engineering, social science and management. ESDs graduate programs, including SDM, prepare engineers to apply systems thinking across boundaries, enabling them to provide strategic leadership in addressing the complex challenges facing the world toda