Engineering expertise meets servant leadership

About me

Greetings! My name is Alex Minnich and I am a human performance modeling researcher and Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. student at Clemson University.

My work focuses on individualized fatigue and recovery models that can create personalized pacing and training tools with historical data.

My long term focus is on closing the gap between engineering and business strategy. That's the same motivation that led me to Clemson's Engineering Leadership minor and why I'm pursuing a Ph.D. and an MBA at the same time. To me, the two degrees aren't separate tracks, they're two sides of the same coin.

Both engineering and business are people centered disciplines that only work when you understand how every part of the system interacts. If one component of a machine fails, the whole machine fails. Organizations work the same way. Markets work the same way. Leadership works the same way.

I approach technical research and business management with that systems mindset: understand the whole system, communicate the tradeoffs clearly, and build solutions that can survive outside the lab and create real impact.