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PhD Program
Master's Programs
Courses
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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. ESD is an interdisciplinary academic unit that
spans most departments within the School of Engineering, as well
as all five schools within MIT. Click here
to read about ESD research projects.
ESD offers a doctoral degree and five master’s
programs. All programs share a common, holistic approach to engineering
system. ESD prepares engineers to lead in the real world, where
clean answers are anomalies and challenging technical problems
rarely have purely technical solutions. The division focuses not
only on complex, technology-based products (automobiles, airplanes,
etc.) and systems (transportation, energy, etc.), but also on
related issues of managerial and societal interactions.
More than 50 faculty and researchers, most holding
dual or joint appointments within ESD and another MIT unit, 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 the division’s PhD
program. All are working together to understand the behavior
of technologically-enabled complex systems, so that these systems
can be modeled, designed, and managed effectively. ESD aims to
position its graduates as tomorrow’s system thinkers, able
to tackle society’s greatest challenges.
Admission to the PhD
and ESD master’s programs occurs on an annual cycle. The
PhD Program, TPP,
and the ESD Master of Science
Degree share a January 10th deadline each year. Check the
LGO, MLOG,
and SDM sites
for their respective deadlines.
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