masters thesis

The link at right is to my masters thesis completed for the Integrated Design and Management Program at MIT.

IDM theses can take a nubmer of forms. Rather than a traditional research project, most are documentation of a built or designed project, or of a startup.

I sought to use systems engineering and design-thinking as they applied to organizational design to redesign a piece of the US Department of Education to foster and support localized ideation in an organization that holds relatively little ownership over the factors that contribute to its own success metrics.

The thesis documents the process of research, ideation, evaluation, and down-selection of multiple alternatives to the current model. The chosen model imagines a matrix-organization that functions as a design firm.

2019
INDIVIDUAL PROJECT
ADVISED BY DR. MARIA YANG, MIT MECHANICAL ENGINEERING