Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development
The Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development (CTPID) focuses on contemporary problems at the nexus of social, natural, and technological systems, and the dilemmas that emerge from interactions among these systems. CTPID examines the opportunities and challenges these dilemmas offer our enterprises, as well as the constraints they impose on the scope and extent of their activities.
Founded in 1985, CTPID brings together more than 45 faculty, researchers, students, and staff from the fields of engineering, management, and social sciences to approach the complex issues that shape modern economies. Participants in the research programs that CTPID develops come from industry and government as well as from academia. Among the sectors of current focus at the Center are aerospace, automotive, information quality, materials systems, and environmental law. The health care sector has been of growing interest to CTPID researchers.
CTPID is a major research center associated with the School of Engineering’s Engineering Systems Division, which aims to unite interdisciplinary faculty and students to study large-scale, complex engineering systems. CTPID contributes to the division by forming collaborative research projects with industrial and government stakeholders outside of the Institute, while ESD provides academic opportunities for CTPID faculty, students, and staff.
CTPID is funded by 19 industry sponsors and 9 government agencies for a total research expenditure volume of about $4.4 million and a total administered research volume of $6.4 million. FY2009 projects included the Ford–MIT Alliance (administered by CTPID), the International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP), Lean Advancement Initiative (LAI), the Materials Systems Laboratory (MSL), the MIT Information Quality program (MITIQ), Systems Engineering Advancement Initiative (SEARi), and the Technology and Law program (T&L).
