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Style Guidelines By convention, the following abbreviations do not contain periods. MIT In general, use the abbreviated reference to the United States only as an adjective or when referring to a unique organization, such as the US Department of Energy. If the text refers to a street address, abbreviations such as St. are acceptable. When referring to a campus organization in text for the first time, use its full name followed by the acronym or abbreviation, if appropriate. Thereafter, the acronym alone may be used. Avoid use of acronyms in headers.
In the catalog description of a center, school, or program, contact information usually appears in the final paragraph.
For information on MIT addresses refer to MIT Mail Services. An alumna is a woman; an alumnus is a man. Alumnae refers to women only; alumni refers to men or to women and men. Capitalize the word class when designating the year of graduation. Other options are to abbreviate the year, or refer only to the year of graduation.
MIT's building numbers are unique. Under the numbering system, a single room number serves to completely identify any location on the campus. In a typical room number such as 7-121, the digit(s) preceding the hyphen give the building number; the first digit following the hyphen, the floor; and the last digits, the room. Thus Room 7-121 is in Building 7, on the first floor; Room 7-321 is directly above it, on the third floor. Buildings on the main campus east of the Great Dome have even numbers and those west of it have odd numbers. Don't expect to find Building 6, for instance, next to Building 5. Buildings west of Massachusetts Avenue are designated W; those north of the Conrail tracks, N; those east of Ames Street, E; and those north of the railroad and west of Massachusetts Avenue, NW. Names of campus buildings are capitalized, even when buildings are referred to by their numbers.
The following examples illustrate the use of uppercase and lowercase when referring to specific degrees, subjects, and requirements. MIT degrees Bachelor of Science, SB, the bachelor's degree MIT requirements A-level subjects or advanced-level subjects Organizations When referring to an organization such as a center, laboratory, program, project, or department, only the proper name is capitalized.
Schools and College There are five schools and one college at MIT: School of Architecture and Planning School of Engineering School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Sloan School of Management School of Science Whitaker College of Health Sciences and Technology Their proper names are capitalized, as are shortened references in contexts where the school's specific identity is clearly established. Generic references to schools (plural) or school offerings are not capitalized.
At MIT, the word Course is capitalized when it refers to an organized curriculum leading to a specific degree. Students sometimes refer to the Course in which they are enrolled as their major. The word course is lowercased when it refers to an individual class, or subject. Each Course at MIT is designated by a number or abbreviation; subjects are given numbers that contain the Course number. For example, Course 2 and Course 2-A are curricula in Mechanical Engineering; subject 2.05 is a class in Mechanical Engineering. By extension, Course 2 is also used to refer to the Department of Mechanical Engineering. When referring to subjects provide the number of the subject and then the title. Do not separate with commas.
Undergraduate Courses at MIT lead to the degree of Bachelor of Science (SB). Graduate degrees include:
Engineer degrees include:
Titles for faculty and teaching staff, research staff, and professors emeriti are listed below. In the print catalog, entries appear in order by title and include academic credentials. The inclusion of categories marked with an asterisk is optional and left to each department's discretion. FACULTY AND TEACHING STAFF Visiting Professor Senior Lecturer Instructor Visiting Lecturer Affiliated Artist RESEARCH STAFF Principal Research Associate Research Associate Research Specialist Sponsored Research Technical Staff Postdoctoral Associate* Research Affiliate* Visiting Engineer* PROFESSORS EMERITI
DESIGNATIONS/HONORS ACCEPTED IN CATALOG FACULTY LISTS Senior Officers Academic Departments/Programs: MIT Fellows: Howard Hughes Medical Institute: MIT Research Labs/Centers: Broad Institute: Whitehead Institute:
Treat letters referring to grades as normal text (not bold or italic). When possible, contextual clues such as the word "grade" help to clarify meaning.
Do not use numbers merely to highlight listed items. Numbered lists imply that the data is ordered and finite. A display of items numbered 1 through 8 suggests that there are no more than eight items, and that the first item is more important than the eighth or that there are eight steps to follow in order. Bullets are a visual device used to call attention to important material. They do not imply a hierarchy, and are most effective when they call out items longer than two lines. If too many bullets are close together, they create a pattern that distracts rather than attracts the reader. A list of very short items is usually set off sufficiently by beginning each item on a new line. A very short list, just two or three items, is probably best run into the text. Avoid use of first person pronouns (I, we, mine, our, me, us) in catalog text whenever possible. Refer to the first term as the fall term and the second term as the spring term.
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