Center for Technology, Policy, & Industrial Development: CTPID
The Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development, a multidisciplinary policy analysis group within the School of Engineering, welcomes student participation in all its research projects.
The Center addresses key problems of five major types:
- Understanding the complex technical and social issues involved in large-scale engineering systems and projects.
- Understanding the process of invention of new technologies and their diffusion into high-tech and mature industries.
- Understanding the roles of government, industry, and universities in promoting new technologies and addressing their implications for society.
- Understanding the complex relationship among technology, business, and the environment, and approaches that can prevent or mitigate environmental pollution.
- Understanding the relationship of technical issues associated with future high-data-rate applications and regulatory frameworks for an open communications infrastructure.
Current research addresses the following areas: the scientific basis for risk assessment and regulation, the ethical import of alternative policies and procedures, the economic impacts of regulations, the personal and social factors affecting human responses to alternative technologies and regulatory strategies, environmental dispute resolution, corporate environmental practice, study of international motor vehicle industry, study of the defense aircraft industry and international competitiveness.
Staff members have graduate level training in engineering, economics, law, management science, and the physical, biological, and social sciences. Many have policy analysis experience in government, industry, universities, and foundations.
Some Related Areas for UROPs
Aeronautics and Astronautics; Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering; Materials Science and Engineering; Sloan Management Program; Political Science; and Urban Studies and Planning. Further Information: CTPID Newsletter and LAI Newsletter. Follow all UROP procedures for pay or credit.
UROP for Credit:
Arranged through the faculty supervisor's academic department.
Faculty Research Descriptions
- Prof. Nicholas Ashford, E40-239, x3-1664
- Technology & Law
- Dr. Kirkor Bozdogan, 41-205, x3-8540, bozdogan@mit.edu
- Lean Aircraft Initiative
- Prof. Joel Clark, E40-417, x3-6885, jpclark@mit.edu
- Material Systems Laboratory
- Dr. Frank Field, III, E40-419, x3-2146, furd@.mit.edu
- Materials System Laboratory
- Dr. Eric Rebentisch, 41-205, x8-7773, erebenti@mit.edu
- Lean Aircraft Initiative
- Dr. Richard Roth, E40-423, x3-6487 rroth@mit.edu
- Material Systems Laboratory
- Dr. Tom Shields, III, 41-205, x3-7333, shields@mit.edu
- Lean Aircraft Initiative
- Dr. Daniel Whitney, E40-243, x3-6045, dwhitney@mit.edu
- Modeling Assembly layouts Using Data Flow Chain (NSF)
