# Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Engineering

The MIT School of Engineering (SoE) is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. It was established in 1932 as part of the reorganization of the Institute recommended by President Karl Taylor Compton. SoE has eight academic departments and two interdisciplinary institutes. The School grants SB, MEng, SM, engineer's degrees, and PhD or ScD degrees. As of 2017, the Dean of Engineering is Professor Anantha Chandrakasan. The school is the largest at MIT as measured by undergraduate and graduate enrollments and faculty members.

## Departments and initiatives

Departments:
* Aeronautics and Astronautics (Course 16) (Founded 1939)
* Biological Engineering (Course 20) (Founded 1998)
* Chemical Engineering (Course 10) (Founded 1920)
* Civil and Environmental Engineering (Course 1) (Founded 1865)
* Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Course 6, joint department with MIT Schwarzman College of Computing) (Founded 1902)
* Materials Science and Engineering (Course 3) (Founded 1884)
* Mechanical Engineering (Course 2) (Founded 1883)
* Nuclear Science and Engineering (Course 22) (Founded 1958)
Institutes:
* Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
** Health Sciences and Technology program (joint MIT–Harvard, "HST" in the course catalog)
(Departments and degree programs are commonly referred to by course catalog numbers on campus.)

## Laboratories and research centers

* Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab
* Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems
* Center for Computational Engineering
* Center for Materials Science and Engineering
* Center for Ocean Engineering
* Center for Transportation and Logistics
* Industrial Performance Center
* Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies
* Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
* Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
* Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity
* Materials Processing Center
* Microsystems Technology Laboratories
* MIT Lincoln Laboratory Beaver Works Center
* Novartis-MIT Center for Continuous Manufacturing
* Ocean Engineering Design Laboratory
* Research Laboratory of Electronics
* SMART Center
* Sociotechnical Systems Research Center
* Tata Center for Technology and Design

## 2020 changes

The Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems and Institute for Data, Systems and Society were moved to the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing upon its creation, and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is now administered jointly.

## Former MIT Deans of Engineering

* Vannevar Bush 1931–1938
* Edward Leyburn Moreland 1938–1946
* Thomas Kilgore Sherwood 1946–1952
* Edward Lull Cochrane 1952–1954
* Carl Richard Söderberg 1954–1959
* Gordon Stanley Brown 1959–1968
* Raymond Lewis Bisplinghoff 1968–1971
* Alfred H. Keil 1971–1977
* James D. Bruce 1977–1978 (Acting Dean)
* Robert Seamans 1978–1981
* Gerald L. Wilson 1981–1991
* Joel Moses 1991–1995
* Robert A. Brown 1996–1999
* Thomas L. Magnanti 1999–2007
* Subra Suresh 2007–2009
* Cynthia Barnhart 2009–2011 (Acting Dean)