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MIT’s
Engineering Systems Division (ESD) represents
a bold educational initiative aimed at establishing
Engineering Systems as a field of study
and advancing theory, policy and practice
in this domain. Within MIT, ESD is an interdisciplinary
academic unit that spans most departments
within the School of Engineering, as well
as MIT's School of Science, School of Humanities,
Arts, and Social Sciences, and MIT Sloan
School of Management.
ESD
brings together faculty
and students
with engineering and management professionals
interested in researching large-scale, complex
engineering systems. The division focuses
on complex, technology-based products (i.e.,
automobiles, airplanes, etc.) and systems
(i.e., transportation, telecommunications,
energy, etc.) While technology is a fundamental
part of these systems, so too are issues
of managerial and, more generally, societal
interactions.
Over
50 faculty and researchers, most holding
dual or joint appointments within ESD and
one of the aforementioned units, are devoted
to teaching and research in the emerging
field of Engineering Systems. Approximately
300 students are enrolled in ESD's five
Master's programs,
plus about 60 students in our Ph.D.
program. All are working together to
understand, model, and predict the behavior
of technologically-enabled complex systems
in order to help the engineering profession
address contemporary critical issues and
better serve humankind.
Admissions
to the Ph.D. and ESD master’s programs
occurs on an annual cycle. The deadline
is January 10th each year. Only TPP
shares this deadline; LFM,
SDM and
MLOG
do not.
Academic
Programs:
Courses:
July
2006
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photo
courtesy of
Donna Coveney/MIT
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