Integrative Systems + Design | University of Michigan

Who We Are

Welcome to Integrative Systems + Design at the University of Michigan’s College of Engineering.

We offer master’s and doctoral degrees through six premier graduate programs: Automotive Engineering, Design Science, Energy Systems Engineering, Global Automotive and Manufacturing Engineering, and Systems Engineering + Design.

There may not be a single academic organization in the world quite like ISD.

No one dares to offer more ways to be integrative, more ways to lead, more ways to be creative, more ways to innovate, more ways to be transformative, more ways to offer translational research, and more ways to connect.

Our Mission

We empower Systems and Design leaders through our integrative mindset, methodologies, and actions to serve the common good.

Our Vision

We shape the discipline of Systems + Design through four distinctive areas:

Research

We spearhead transcending research by systematically integrating disparate disciplines and contextual factors to support the full development life-cycle of systems, products and services that deliver lasting value.

About our Research

Academics

We deliver a pre-eminent agile educational portfolio which emphasizes integrative systems and design, and its application to emerging areas within fields such as manufacturing, energy, and automotive systems that are transforming the very way we live.

About Academics

Experience

We fuse our learnings through meaningful experiences that strengthen our holistic practice and position our community to address complex global challenges and produce high value opportunities.

Community

We foster a robust and diverse community of scholarly faculty, dedicated staff, talented students and engaged partners who catalyze the advancement of the ISD discipline and its positive impact on our world.

Exploring the Field of ISD

Integrative Systems + Design at the University of Michigan embraces a national vision for integrative, system, design, and critical thinking through exceptional education, creativity, connection, and translational research.

Integrative thinking requires seeing problems from multiple viewpoints, taking them all into consideration, and searching for creative solutions through a multidisciplinary and transformative approach.

Integrative thinking also requires shifting the focus to the vulnerabilities and capacities of single systems or sectors to interconnected systems, taking into account the multidirectional interactions of projected changes, responses, and effects.

Understanding Integrative

Integrative comes in a variety of forms:

Connecting skills and knowledge from multiple sources and experiences.
Applying skills and practices in various settings.
Using diverse and even contradictory points of view.
Understanding issues and positions contextually.

Integrative, in its many splendid forms, can help solve the planet’s most pressing, longstanding, and highly complex issues.

Transformative Approach

A Powerful Mindset

Think of your brain as integrative in hyperspace, where about 86 billion nerve cells or neurons communicate with each other by sending chemical and electrical signals.

Together, these neurons integrate with other neurons to link different things together, like faces with names.

In its simplest form, integrative is the power to connect things.

Creative Solutions

Integrative thinking requires shifting the focus to the vulnerabilities and capacities of single systems or sectors to interconnected systems and how these will shift over time, taking into account the multidirectional interactions of projected changes, responses, and effects.

Transforming Our World

At University of Michigan, Integrative Systems + Design empowers leaders to transform our world in rapidly evolving industries, such as automotive, manufacturing, and energy systems. Embedded in our premier research, education and practice, we apply an integrative mindset to complex systems + design across disciplines.

The result is positively transformative!

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