Wikipedia / MIT School of Engineering
Wikipedia / MIT 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. It was established in 1932 as part of the reorganization of the Institute recommended by President Karl Taylor Compton. SoE has eight academic departments and two interdisciplinary institutes. The School grants SB, MEng, SM, engineer's degrees, and PhD or ScD degrees. , the Dean of Engineering is Professor Paula T. Hammond. The school is the largest at MIT as measured by undergraduate and graduate enrollments and faculty members.
Departments and institutes
The school includes eight departments:
Aeronautics and Astronautics (Course 16) (Founded 1939)
Biological Engineering (Course 20) (Founded 1998)
Chemical Engineering (Course 10) (Founded 1920)
Civil and Environmental Engineering (Course 1) (Founded 1865)
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Course 6, joint department with MIT Schwarzman College of Computing) (Founded 1902)
Materials Science and Engineering (Course 3) (Founded 1884)
Mechanical Engineering (Course 2) (Founded 1883)
Nuclear Science and Engineering (Course 22) (Founded 1958)
In addition, the following MIT institutes are within the school:
Institute for Data, Systems & Society
Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (includes the Harvard–MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology)
Departments and degree programs are commonly referred to by course catalog numbers on campus.
Laboratories and research centers
The following labs and centers report to the Dean of Engineering:
Center for Transportation and Logistics
Microsystems Technology Laboratories
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab
MIT Lincoln Laboratory Beaver Works Center
MIT Sociotechnical Systems Research Center
Additional labs and centers which are in the School of Engineering include:
Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems
Center for Computational Engineering
Center for Materials Science and Engineering
Center for Ocean Engineering
Industrial Performance Center
Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity
Ocean Engineering Design Laboratory
Other MIT labs and centers related to the School include:
Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab
Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies
Materials Research Lab
MIT Energy Initiative
Plasma Science and Fusion Center
SMART Center
Tata Center for Technology and Design
2020 changes
The Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems were moved to the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing upon its creation, and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Institute for Data, Systems and Society are now administered jointly.
Former MIT Deans of Engineering
Vannevar Bush 1931–1938
Edward Leyburn Moreland 1938–1946
Thomas Kilgore Sherwood 1946–1952
Edward Lull Cochrane 1952–1954
Richard Söderberg 1954–1959
Gordon S. Brown 1959–1968
Raymond L. Bisplinghoff 1968–1971
Alfred H. Keil 1971–1977
James D. Bruce 1977–1978 (Acting Dean)
Robert Seamans 1978–1981
Gerald L. Wilson 1981–1991
Joel Moses 1991–1995
Robert A. Brown 1996–1999
Thomas L. Magnanti 1999–2007
Subra Suresh 2007–2009
Cynthia Barnhart 2009–2011 (Acting Dean)
Ian A. Waitz 2011-2017
Anantha P. Chandrakasan 2017-2025
Maria C. Yang 2025-2026 (Acting Dean)
Paula T. Hammond 2026-present
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