Email: lmallak@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6640
Larry Mallak is the Academic Director of Systems Engineering and a Professor of Practice in WPI’s System Engineering programs. He has spent his career building and using innovative methods to improve organizational systems and to design processes leading to better outcomes in complex systems. His work in empathic design sits squarely at the nexus of design, customer needs, and system requirements elicitation. His work has been featured in numerous outlets, including TEDx, Engineering Management Journal, WORK, and Industrial Management. He is a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering ...
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Email: dsgelosh@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x4918
“I am an Educator because Education enables Freedom. I am a Systems Engineer because Systems Engineering provides the technology that enables Societies to grow, prosper, and remain free. I am a Systems Engineering Educator at WPI because there I can be both.”Dr. Don Gelosh is Director of Systems Engineering Programs for WPI. In this role, Dr. Gelosh works closely with WPI’s faculty in the development of systems engineering programs. Dr. Gelosh also works with an external Systems Engineering Advisory Council and fosters partnerships among WPI and companies and organizations involved in the ...
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Email: jmonat@wpi.edu
Phone: 978-897-3420
Dr. Monat teaches courses in Risk Management and Decision Analysis, Systems Thinking, System Optimization, and Business Practices. He has both management and teaching experience in the medical device, separations, food & beverage, business consulting, and environmental industries, having served as President of Harvard Clinical Technology, President and Founder of Business Growth Specialists, Inc., as Sr. Vice-President of Pall Corporation, and in a variety of executive positions for Koch Membrane Systems, Inc. He has taught at WPI since 2004.Dr. Monat’s current research interests include ...
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Email: ssvirani@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x4848
As a systems engineer I view optimizing engineering endeavors as going beyond algorithmic optimization to include a humanitarian mission, using systems engineering tools, patterns, techniques, methods, themes, and philosophies to do policy modeling, all with the common goal of mission success. While engineering tools have brought about much excellence and productivity, we haven't always applied these powerful tools to goals such as human diversity in engineering, or looking at the full human as a participant in the human workforce. I pursue these ideas across multiple dimensions, from research ...
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