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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; Urban
Studies
and Planning
Further
Information: CTPID
Newsletter and
LAI Newsletter.
See "Awards
&
Funds" for
special
funding
that may
pertain
to your
research.
Follow
all UROP
procedures
for pay
or credit.
- 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)
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