School of Engineering

Departments, Divisions,
Labs, Centers, and Programs

The School's consists of eight academic departments and one division that builds on the sharing of interdepartmental interests across broad areas. Interdepartmental centers, laboratories, and programs, which involve the School's faculty and research staff, provide opportunities for faculty, staff, and students to undertake collaborative research and engage in educational programs dealing with many interdisciplinary applications of importance to society.

Departments and Divisions

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Major Laboratories, Centers, and Programs

Interdisciplinary research programs, centers, and laboratories, which reside in the School of Engineering include those listed below.

Center for Ocean Engineering

Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development

Center for Transportation and Logistics

Computation for Design and Optimization

Computational and Systems Biology

Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation

Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies

Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems

Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems

Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity

Leaders for Manufacturing–Joint Engineering and Management Graduate Program

The Lemelson-MIT Program

Materials Processing Center

Microsystems Technology Laboratories

MIT Portugal Program

Program in Polymer Science and Technology

Singapore-MIT Alliance

System Design and Management Program–Joint Engineering and Management Graduate Program

Technology and Policy Program

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More Laboratories, Centers, and Programs in the School of Engineering

Actinide Research Laboratory

Acoustics and Vibrations Laboratory

Aeronautical Systems Laboratory

The Age Lab-Technology for Healthy Aging

Association of American Railroads (AAR) Affiliated Laboratories

Auto-ID Labs

Bio-Instrumentation Laboratory

Biotechnology Process Engineering Center

Boron Neutron Capture Therapy Laboratory

Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (CANES)

Center for Biomedical Engineering

Center for Materials Research in Archaeology & Ethnology

Center for Sports Innovation

Center for Wireless Networking

Chisholm Lab

Cognitive Robotics

Computer-Aided Design Laboratory (CADlab)

Cooperative Mobility Program

d'Arbeloff Laboratory for Information Systems and Technology

Design Laboratory

Digital Integrated Circuits and Systems

Engineering and Environmental Mechanics Group

EPA Center on Airborne Organics (a consortium of MIT, Caltech and NJIT)

Field and Space Robotics Laboratory

Flight Transportation Laboratory

Fluid Dynamics Research Laboratory

Gas Turbine Laboratory

H.H. Uhlig Corrosion Laboratory

Hatsopolous Microfluids Laboratory

Human-Machine Systems Laboratory

Humanoid Robotics (The Cog Shop)

Impact and Crashworthiness Laboratory

Industrial Performance Center

Information and Control Engineering Laboratory

Intelligent Transportation Research Center

Intelligent Transportation Systems

International Center for Air Transportation

International Motor Vehicle Program

Program on Internet & Telecom Convergence

Labor Aerospace Research Agenda

Laboratory for Accelerator Beam Applications

Laboratory for Computation of Microstructural Evolution and Response

Laboratory for Experimental and Computational Micromechanics

Laboratory for Human and Machine Haptics (Touch Lab)

Laboratory for Ship and Platform Flows

Lean Aerospace Initiative

Lean Sustainment Initiative

The Leg Laboratory

Magnetic and Materials Devices Laboratory

Man Vehicle Laboratory

Marine Computation & Instrumentation Laboratory

Marine Hydrodynamics Laboratory (Water Tunnel)

Materials Systems Laboratory

MEMS @ MIT

Microcellular Plastics Laboratory

Microphotonics Center

NED Research Laboratories

Nondestructive Evaluation Laboratory

Nonlinear Systems Laboratory

Ocean Acoustics Group

Ocean Engineering Teaching Laboratory

Ocean Engineering Testing Tank

Ocean Seismo-Acoustics Laboratory

Optical Engineering Group

Pappalardo Laboratories

Photon Correlation Spectroscopy Laboratory

Pirelli-MIT Research Alliance for Microphotonic Circuits

Polz Lab

Polymer Mechanics Laboratory

Polymer Processing Laboratory

Precision Engineering Research Group

Production System Design Laboratory

Program in Science Technology and Environmental Policy (P-STEP)

The Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory

Reacting Gas Dynamics Laboratory

Research Program on Communications Policy

RFQ Accelerator Laboratory

Sloan Automotive Laboratories

Software Engineering Research Laboratory

Space Systems Laboratory

Spatial Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Laboratory

Technology Laboratory for Advanced Composites

Technology and Law Program

Tomography Laboratory

Waste Encapsulation Laboratory

Vortical Flow Research Laboratory

Warren M. Rohsenow Heat and Mass Transfer Laboratory

Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel

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