| Context:
The Engineering Systems Division (ESD) at
MIT is helping to pioneer Engineering Systems
as a new field of study – designed
to transform engineering education and practice.
Mission:
The ESD doctoral research programs conduct
original and generalizable scholarship on
complex engineered systems in order to advance
theory, policy, or practice.
The
main objective of the ESD Ph.D. program
is to prepare colleagues who can seed engineering
schools with the integrative ideas of engineering
systems. Our alumni whether working in academia,
government, the private sector, or public
service have found the rigorous and individualized
program to provide the foundation for challenging
careers.
The
ESD Ph.D. program is residential.
Doctoral students share courses
and seminars as a means to establish
a common intellectual basis and collegial
community. Students must satisfy a distributional
requirement, prepare a program of in-depth
courses, and pass the Doctoral
Exams. Students work with the
faculty and committees
to focus their preparation and research
into the areas that are most productive
for them, leading to a dissertation
advancing the field of Engineering Systems.
Each
student’s doctoral program requires
research capabilities at the forefront of
the field of engineering systems. These
represent a kind of education distinct from,
although not incompatible with, the professional
Master’s degrees sponsored by or associated
with ESD (LFM,
MLOG,
TPP,
and SDM).
Thus doctoral students will take different,
more in-depth subjects than those generally
taken by students in the professional Master’s
programs.
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July
2006
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