Olivier L. de Weck, Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems at MIT
and guest professor at MASHLM, teaches Project Management Principles, part of the Project Management module in the Master of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian Logistics and Management at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), in Lugano, Switzerland.
"My hope is that they see the potential for improvement in projects in the humanitarian sector. We have an evolution where traditionally we thought about development work, building projects like roads, bridges, building infrastructure essentially as one thing, and humanitarian response, responding to disasters, emergencies, in an operational sense, as an entirely different field. What we're seeing now is that those two fields are converging and at the intersection you have a need for doing high quality but rapid projects that really transform both the human efforts but also the donor money that is given into the sector into as much value added as possible. And in order to do that you need to have systematic management and thinking about projects as something that needs to be actively managed and monitored is a key element of that."
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