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Officially founded in 1998, ESD is rooted in decades of developments moving toward interdisciplinary approaches to engineering systems problems.

	1948	MIT professor Norbert Wiener publishes Cybernetics
	1954	Henry M. Paynter establishes one of the first systems courses
	1961	Jay Forrester publishes Industrial Dynamics
	1971	Alfred H. Keil establishes the Center for Policy Alternatives
	1973	Center for Transportation Studies is founded
	1975	Technology and Policy Program is founded
	1985	Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development is formed
	1988	Leaders for Manufacturing Program is launched
	1989	MIT Commission on Industrial Productivity publishes “Made in America”
	1991	Technology, Management, and Policy Program (TMP) PhD is founded
	1993	The School of Engineering Publishes “Engineering with a Big E”
	1996	The Eagar Committee recommends the creation of ESD
	1996	MIT’s System Design and Management Program is founded
	1998	Master of Engineering in Logistics Program is founded
	1998	The Engineering Systems Division is founded
	2000	First tenured dual faculty hired by ESD
	2004	First International Engineering Systems Symposium at MIT
	2004	ESD Doctoral Program is established, incorporating the TMP
	2004	Council of Engineering Systems Universities is launched
	2008	Two dual junior faculty tenured at ESD
	2009	Two faculty from MIT School of Architecture + Planning join ESD; the division now has faculty with appointments in all five MIT schools
	2009	MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation Joins ESD
	2009	Second International Engineering Systems Symposium at MIT

Roos and Hastings celebrate ESDs 5th
Dan Roos and Dan Hastings
(past ESD co-directors) celebrate
ESD's 5th anniversary
along with the move to E40.