John
M. Grace
Appointed
SDM Industry Co-Director
April
29, 2005
John
M. Grace was recently named Industry
Co-Director in the System Design and
Management Program, a graduate level
program jointly sponsored by MIT Sloan
School of Management and School of
Engineering. He began his career in
1963 at Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory
(CAL)/Calspan Corp., where he held
a number of technical and technical
management roles. In 1995, he was
asked to join Arvin Industries, the
parent company of Calspan, in Columbus,
Ind., as VP of Engineering. In 2000,
when Arvin Industries joined with
Meritor Corp. to form ArvinMeritor,
he became VP of Engineering and Technology.
Throughout
his time at Arvin and ArvinMeritor,
Grace was a supporter of the SDM program
and Certificate programs. He officially
retired from ArvinMeritor in January
of 2005. As Industry Co-Director,
Grace will help build support for
the SDM program, with an industrial
perspective. Grace earned a B.S. and
an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
from the University of Notre Dame;
an M.S. in Applied Mathematics from
Cornell University, and an MBA from
the University of Dayton.
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