The MIT School of Engineering (SoE) is one of the five schools of the

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, located in

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Massachusetts Massachusetts (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut assachusett writing systems, məhswatʃəwiːsət'' English: , ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous U.S. state, state in the New England ...

, United States. SoE has eight academic departments and two interdisciplinary institutes. The School grants SB,

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, SM, engineer's degrees, and

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or ScD degrees. , the Dean of Engineering is Professor

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. The school is the largest at MIT as measured by undergraduate and graduate enrollments and faculty members.

Departments and initiatives

Departments: * Aeronautics and Astronautics (Course 16) * Biological Engineering (Course 20) * Chemical Engineering (Course 10) * Civil and Environmental Engineering (Course 1) * Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Course 6, joint department with

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) * Materials Science and Engineering (Course 3) * Mechanical Engineering (Course 2) * Nuclear Science and Engineering (Course 22) Institutes: * Institute for Medical Engineering and Science ** Health Sciences and Technology program (joint MIT-Harvard, "HST" in the course catalog) (Departments and degree programs are commonly referred to by course catalog numbers on campus.)

Laboratories and research centers

* Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab * Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems * Center for Computational Engineering * Center for Materials Science and Engineering * Center for Ocean Engineering * Center for Transportation and Logistics * Industrial Performance Center * Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies *

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* Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems * Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity * Materials Processing Center * Microsystems Technology Laboratories * MIT Lincoln Laboratory Beaver Works Center * Novartis-MIT Center for Continuous Manufacturing * Ocean Engineering Design Laboratory * Research Laboratory of Electronics * SMART Center * Sociotechnical Systems Research Center * Tata Center for Technology and Design

2020 changes

The

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and

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were moved to the

upon its creation, and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is now administered jointly.

Former MIT Deans of Engineering

Vannevar Bush Vannevar Bush ( ; March 11, 1890 – June 28, 1974) was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, who during World War II headed the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), through which almost all wartime ...

1931-1938 *Edward Leyburn Moreland 1938-1946 *

Thomas Kilgore Sherwood Thomas Kilgore Sherwood (July 25, 1903 – January 14, 1976) was a noted American chemical engineer and a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering. Biography Sherwood was born in Columbus, Ohio, and spent much of his youth in Mo ...

1946-1952 *Edward Lull Cochrane 1952-1954 * Carl Richard Söderberg 1954-1959 *Gordon Stanley Brown 1959-1968 *Raymond Lewis Bisplinghoff 1968-1971 *Alfred H. Keil 1971-1977 *James D. Bruce 1977-1978 (Acting Dean) *

Robert Seamans Robert Channing Seamans Jr. (October 30, 1918 – June 28, 2008) was an MIT professor who served as NASA Deputy Administrator and 9th United States Secretary of the Air Force. Birth and education He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, to Pauline ...

1978-1981 *Gerald L. Wilson 1981-1991 *

Joel Moses Joel Moses (24 November 1941 – 29 May 2022) was an Israeli-American mathematician, computer scientist, and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Biography Joel Moses was born in Mandatory Palestine on 24 Novem ...

1991-1995 *

Robert A. Brown Robert A. Brown (born July 22, 1951) is the 10th president of Boston University. He was formerly the provost of MIT. In 1991, Brown was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for the application of computing techniques to ...

1996-1999 *

Thomas L. Magnanti Thomas Lee Magnanti (born 1945) is an American engineer and Institute Professor and former Dean of the School of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Magnanti served as the founding president of the Singapore University of T ...

1999-2007 *

Subra Suresh Subra Suresh is an Indian-born American bioengineer, materials scientist, and academic administrator. On 1 January 2018, he was inaugurated as the fourth President of Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU), where he is also the i ...

2007-2009 *

Cynthia Barnhart Cynthia Barnhart (born 1959) is an American civil engineer and academic. She previously served as the Chancellor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the first woman to hold that position. Barnhart's work focuses on transportation and op ...

2009–2011 (Acting Dean)

References

External links

MIT School of Engineering website

MIT Learning International Networks Consortium

School of Engineering Dean's Advisory Council (DAC)
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