Engineering Systems Division

MIT’s Engineering Systems Division (ESD) brings together faculty, students, and engineering and management professionals to tackle large-scale, complex engineering systems challenges in areas such as transportation, telecommunications, healthcare, and energy. ESD spans most departments within the School of Engineering, as well as all five MIT schools. ESD has also developed industry-government-academic relationships to engage in a variety of research initiatives including:

MIT-Portugal Program

A collaborative program in research and education among MIT and Portuguese universities and institutions that concentrates on activities such as engineering design, advanced manufacturing, and transportation, energy, bio-engineering, and engineering systems.

Center for Biomedical Innovation

CBI’s mission is to improve global health by overcoming obstacles to the development and implementation of biomedical innovation. CBI provides a safe and transparent environment for collaborative research among industry, academia, and government, and draws on the expertise of the MIT schools of engineering, science, and management, as well as the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST).

Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals

Develops seminars, book series, symposia, faculty collaborations, and other events to foster awareness of engineering systems fundamentals.

MIT Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development

A multi-industry research enterprise that investigates sustainable global solutions to challenges in aerospace, automotive production and transportation, Internet technology and policy, materials systems, and technology and law.

MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics

Research programs on supply chain management and involve faculty and research staff from a range of academic disciplines, as well as researchers in affiliate organizations around the world.

The Council of Engineering Systems Universities

Provides a mechanism for universities around the world offering engineering systems programs to work together developing engineering systems as a new field of study.

Engineering Systems Faculty

  • Petra Ahrweiler

    Visiting Scholar

  • Anas Alfaris

    Research Scientist

  • Thomas J. Allen

    Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow
    Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management, Emeritus
    Professor of Engineering Systems, Emeritus
    Co-Director, LGO and SDM Programs
    Co-Director, Program on the Pharmaceutical Industry

  • George E. Apostolakis

    Korea Electric Power Company Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering and
    Professor of Engineering Systems

  • Hamsa Balakrishnan

    T. Wilson Career Development Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems

  • Cynthia Barnhart

    Acting Dean of Engineering

    Ford Professor of Engineering

    Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems

    Co-director, Operations Research Center

    Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, MIT School of Engineering

  • Christopher Caplice

    Executive Director, Center for Transportation & Logistics
    Executive Director, MLOG Program

  • John S. Carroll

    Morris A. Adelman Professor of Management
    Professor of Behavioral and Policy Sciences and Engineering Systems
    Co-Director, Lean Advancement Initiative

  • Joel Philip Clark

    Professor of Materials Systems and Engineering Systems
    Co-Lead, Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing (EDAM) Focus Area, MIT Portugal Program

  • Joseph F. Coughlin

    Senior Lecturer, Engineering Systems Division
    Director, AgeLab, & New England University Transportation Center
    Center for Transportation and Logistics

  • Edward F. Crawley

    Ford Professor of Engineering

    Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems

    Director, Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program

  • Mary (Missy) Cummings

    Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems
    Director, Humans and Automation Laboratory
    Human-Systems Engineering Track

  • Michael A. Cusumano

    Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor of Management
    Professor of Engineering Systems

  • Richard de Neufville

    Professor of Engineering Systems and Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • Olivier L. de Weck

    Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems
    Associate Director, Engineering Systems Division

  • Dov Dori

    Visiting Professor

  • Thomas Waddy Eager

    Professor of Materials Engineering and Engineering Systems

  • Steven D. Eppinger

    General Motors Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management Science and Engineering Systems

  • John Fernandez

    Associate Professor, Building Technology and Engineering Systems

  • Frank R. Field, III

    Senior Research Associate, MIT CTPID
    Director of Education, TPP
    Senior Research Engineer
    Senior Lecturer in Engineering Systems

  • Charles H. Fine

    Chrysler LGO Professor of Management and Engineering Systems
    Co-director, International Motor Vehicle Program

  • Stan N. Finkelstein

    Senior Research Scientist, Engineering Systems Division and Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology
    Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

  • Daniel D. Frey

    Robert N. Noyce Career Development Professor
    Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Systems

  • David Geltner

    Professor of Real Estate Finance and Engineering Systems

  • Marta C. González

    Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems

  • Stephen C. Graves

    Abraham J. Siegel Professor of Management Science
    Professor of Engineering Systems and Mechanical Engineering

  • Pat Hale

    Director, System Design and Management Fellows Program
    Senior Lecturer in Engineering Systems

  • R. John Hansman, Jr.

    T. Wilson Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics and Engineering Systems
    Head, Division of Humans and Automation
    Director, International Center for Air Transportation

  • David Edgar Hardt

    Ralph E. and Eloise F. Cross Professor of Mechanical Engineering
    Professor of Engineering Systems

  • David Hartzband

    Visiting Scholar

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