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Dirk Swart’s teaching focuses on developing critical skills in leadership, negotiation, emotional intelligence, individual and team behavior, conflict management, problem solving, managing contracts and intellectual property, ethics, and engineering management decision making. Dirk has 20 years of experience as a technical entrepreneur and is currently the CEO of Zynect, an embedded sensor company based in Ithaca, NY. He co-founded Zynect in 2010, raised $2.4 million in funding, and brought 20 successful embedded products from concept to market. Prior to this, he was a visiting fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future. His academic background includes a Bachelor of Business Science in Computer Science from the University of Cape Town and a Master of Arts from Tuft's Fletcher School, where his thesis was titled "Voice Say: Analysis of North-South Trade Agreements," under the supervision of Adil Najam.
Department of Architecture