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CIPD’s education program leads students toward effective product development in a globally-distributed marketplace. Addressing the interplay between PD’s technical, social, and system elements, our program is interdisciplinary—a joint effort between MIT’s School of Engineering, Sloan School of Management, and numerous partner companies.
Teams of CIPD faculty and students join with industry partners to work in real-world laboratories—our partner company’s industrial sites. Intimately linked to our research program, the education program is another venue for disseminating the best of our research results, and introducing new PD concepts and applications.
CIPD targets three student populations:
1. Working professionals can take advantage of MIT’s oldest distance-learning degree curriculum, the System Design and Management (SDM) program. This graduate-level curriculum is designed for experienced engineers who want to pursue a Master of Science degree in Engineering and Management. Students pursue the advanced degree while based at their home work sites, with minimal interruption to their careers.
2. Graduate students can choose from a full suite of product development courses. Topics cover the PD process from its strategic beginnings through design, development, deployment, and marketing.
3. Undergraduates too have access to some of the latest PD education offerings, through formal courses and particularly through MIT’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP).
