Jesse Austin-Breneman

Jesse Austin-Breneman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. Previous to his academic career, he worked as a development engineer in Peru, working with rural communities on alternative business opportunities and with local doctors’ groups on medical device development. He also spent two years as a high school mathematics teacher in Boston, MA. His recent research as the director of the Global Design Laboratory focuses on developing design processes and support tools to help multi-disciplinary design teams think at a systems-level when performing complex system design tasks. This includes investigating the best way to incorporate system-level interactions between stakeholders in emerging markets into the design decision-making process.