Engineering

The Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress, 1862-1939

The online version of the Alexander Graham Bell family papers at the Library of Congress comprises a selection of 4,695 items (totaling about 51,500 images). This presentation contains correspondence ...

arXiv.org

Physicist Paul Ginsparg, the creator of the arXiv, joined the Cornell faculty in the fall of 2001. He and the arXiv are credited with starting a revolution in the way physicists, mathematicians, and ...

Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present

A collection documenting achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types and engineering technologies ...

Cooperative Mobility Program

CMP researchers contributed to a major new study of worldwide mobility trends, commissioned by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). This study, Mobility 2001, is the first ...

Department of Ocean Engineering

The goal of MIT’s Department of Ocean Engineering is to develop the knowledge and technology to foster and enable the wise and effective use, development, and preservation of the ocean, its natural ...

Distributed Object-based Modeling Environment (DOME)

Computer systems that model new products can be overwhelmingly complex. The design of an automobile door, for example, can require the coordinated efforts of dozens (if not hundreds) of designers, ...

Effective Enterprise Learning

As organizations manage knowledge across functional boundaries, they often face obstacles to knowledge transfer. Knowledge tends to become localized, embedded, and invested in particular practices, ...

Ford-MIT Alliance

The Ford Motor Company has engaged MIT in addressing an array of 21st century industry challenges. The multi-million dollar alliance, begun in 1997, focuses on three research areas: product ...

A Guide to the "First Temple of the Atom" Documents

A multimedia presentation and EAD-encoded finding aids with a virtual archive of nuclear engineering research at North Carolina State University. NC State's reactor was the first atomic installation ...

Guide to the Pennsylvania Bridges Collection, 1884-1915

The collection contains photographs of railroad bridges in Pennsylvania, mostly in the Pittsburgh area, 1891-1915. Photographs include technical drawings, depicting structural details and complete ...

Implementation Dynamics (ID)

The history of management practice is full of process improvement innovations -- job enrichment, quality circles, and total quality management (TQM), to name only a few. Why do these innovations ...

Incentives and Boundaries (IB)

CIPD has researched not only the development of technical tools, but also the social, organizational, and competitive context within which PD occurs. Real people in real organizations act in their own ...

Information Flow Modeling (IFM)

The IFM initiative seeks to map all aspects of the PD process. Using Design Structure Matrix (DSM) and other advanced analytical tools, we model and simulate information flows to enhance our partners ...

International Motor Vehicle Program

The International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP) has had a major impact on the global automobile industry and related economies since it was launched in 1979. IMVP has focused on trends in the global ...

Lean Aerospace Initiative

The Lean Aerospace Initiative (LAI) is an evolving learning community that brings together key stakeholders from industry, government, organized labor, and MIT. LAI focuses on achieving lean ...

Lean Sustainment Initiative

The Lean Sustainment Initiative (LSI) is a collaborative partnership between government, industry, and academia. LSI is currently focused on improving organic and contract MRO operations at the depot ...

Lincoln Highway Digital Image Collection

A generous grant from the University of Michigan's Friends of the Library, in 1999, funded the first phase of a project to digitize the photographs of the Lincoln Highway Association. An additional ...

Materials Systems Laboratory

The Materials Systems Laboratory (MSL) analyzes the competitive position of materials and the strategic implications of materials choice in the automotive, electronic, and aerospace industries. To ...

Other CIPD Research

Other Center for Innovation in Product Development (CIPD) research.

Platform Architectures (PA)

Our Platform Architecture initiative (PA) has helped companies to determine optimal product families, and choose the best subsystems to be shared by products within the family. If a company produces ...

Project Euclid

The end result is a vibrant online information community for independent and society journals. This will assure that mathematics and statistics will continue to benefit from a healthy balance of ...

Project Matterhorn Publications and Reports, 1951-1958

Digitized versions of the declassified Project Matterhorn records, a secret Department of Energy and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory project from the 1950s. The archival collection is marked up in ...

Research Laboratory for Electronics (RLE)

The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) was founded in 1946 as the Institute's first interdisciplinary laboratory. RLE is the successor to the famed MIT Radiation Laboratory of World War II, and ...

Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA)

The Singapore-MIT Alliance is an innovative engineering education and research collaboration among three of the top engineering research universities in the world: National University of Singapore ( ...

Virtual Customer (VC)

Virtual Customer is a multidisciplinary approach to improving customer input to the product development process. VC has reinvented traditional marketing science methods such as conjoint analysis, ...

Warren M. Rohsenow Heat and Mass Transfer Laboratory

The Warren M. Rohsenow Heat and Mass Transfer Laboratory is dedicated to fundamental and applied research in transport phenomena to support energy technologies,electronic thermal management, ...

Wright Brothers Negatives

Among the materials the Wright Brothers estate gave the Library of Congress in 1948 were 300 glass plate negatives and two nitrate negatives, most taken by the Wright brothers themselves between 1897 ...