Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Engineering

The MIT School of Engineering (SoE) is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. SoE has eight academic departments and two interdisciplinary institutes. The School grants SB, MEng, SM, engineer's degrees, and PhD or ScD degrees. As of 2017, the Dean of Engineering is Professor Anantha Chandrakasan. The school is the largest at MIT as measured by undergraduate and graduate enrollments and faculty members.[1]

MIT Building 1
Pierce Engineering Laboratory

Departments and initiatives

[2] Departments:

  • Aeronautics and Astronautics (Course 16)
  • Biological Engineering (Course 20)
  • Chemical Engineering (Course 10)
  • Civil and Environmental Engineering (Course 1)
  • Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Course 6, joint department with MIT Schwarzman College of Computing)
  • Materials Science and Engineering (Course 3)
  • Mechanical Engineering (Course 2)
  • Nuclear Science and Engineering (Course 22)

Institutes:

  • Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
    • Health Sciences and Technology program (joint MIT-Harvard, "HST" in the course catalog)

(Departments and degree programs are commonly referred to by course catalog numbers on campus.)

Laboratories and research centers
  • Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab
  • Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems
  • Center for Computational Engineering
  • Center for Materials Science and Engineering
  • Center for Ocean Engineering
  • Center for Transportation and Logistics
  • Industrial Performance Center
  • Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies
  • Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
  • Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
  • Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity
  • Materials Processing Center
  • Microsystems Technology Laboratories
  • MIT Lincoln Laboratory Beaver Works Center
  • Novartis-MIT Center for Continuous Manufacturing
  • Ocean Engineering Design Laboratory
  • Research Laboratory of Electronics
  • SMART Center
  • Sociotechnical Systems Research Center
  • Tata Center for Technology and Design

2020 changes

The Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems and Institute for Data, Systems and Society were moved to the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing upon its creation, and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is now administered jointly.

Former MIT Deans of Engineering

References
  1. "MIT School of Engineering: About". MIT. Retrieved August 13, 2007.
  2. "School of Engineering". Retrieved January 19, 2021.

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