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PhD Program
Master's Programs
Subjects
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The cornerstone of the MIT Engineering Systems Division is the ESD PhD program, in which students conduct original scholarship on complex engineered systems in order to advance theory, policy, or practice—and further establish the field of engineering systems.
ESD is an interdisciplinary academic unit that
spans most departments within the School of Engineering, as well
as all five schools within MIT. In addition to the doctoral program, ESD encompasses five master’s
programs. All programs share a common, holistic approach to engineering
systems. 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. Click here to read about ESD research projects.
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 December 15th deadline each year. Check the
LGO, SCM,
and SDM sites
for their respective deadlines.
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