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The System Design and Management program has issued a call for challenge proposals for the latest iteration of the core integrated team project. The team project is the
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In March of this year, the MIT community was focused on handling the rapidly escalating COVID-19 pandemic. For much of the faculty, students and staff, this meant figuring out how
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MIT SDM has collaborated with the MIT Innovation Initiative to offer an interactive map on Kumu showing the relationships between the many groups at MIT working to fight the
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As the COVID-19 pandemic began to spread, it became clear that ventilators would be a crucial part of the medical response in order to keep patients breathing as they fought
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Daniel Xuedong Li, a first year SDM fellow, has published the book “Cut Protective Textiles,” the first volume on the subject of cut protective textiles and fabrics. These
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On February 14, Reini D. Wirahadikusumah, President of Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) and professor of civil and environmental engineering, visited the SDM offices. ITB is
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Steven D. Eppinger, faculty co-director of the System Design and Management program, recently spoke at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in the Ørsted Lecture series.
![James Pennington, SDM '18, discusses his team's poster at the Technology Showcase with fellow students.](https://sdm-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190114-P1420609-e1550776577467.jpg)
The System Design and Management program has issued a call for challenge proposals for the core integrated team project. The team project is the cornerstone of the spring semester
![Rachel Le Vely brainstorms with a Honda employee](https://sdm-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ALP03366.jpg)
In the spring semester of the combined core class in systems thinking, System Design and Management (SDM) students partner with sponsors to solve real-world problems using the
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System Design and Management graduates Shruti Banda and Jack Yao are running a second Kickstarter campaign for their startup Mobile Pixels with the goal of bringing an upgraded