Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Engineering


The MIT School of Engineering 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., 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:
Institutes:
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
  • 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