Collections at MIT

Center for Global Change Science

The Center for Global Change Science (CGCS) seeks to better understand the fundamental processes and mechanisms controlling the global environment. The interdisciplinary Center, founded in 1990, ...

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 ...

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 ...

LIDS Technical Reports

The Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) is an interdepartmental research laboratory at the MIT. The laboratory conducts theoretical as well as applied research in the fields of ...

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 ...

MIT Press Out of Print Books

The MIT Press, established as an independent publisher in 1962, is the only university press in the United States whose list is based in science and technology. The Press currently publishes some 40 ...

MIT Program on Information Quality

The MITIQ Program, launched in 2002, develops and tests new knowledge in the information quality field as well as information quality benchmarking standards. The program extends the information ...

Operations Research Center

Operations research (OR) is the professional discipline that deals with the application of scientific methods to decision making. MIT’s Operations Research Center brings together faculty with various ...

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 ...

Program on Internet and Telecoms Convergence

MIT Program on Internet and Telecoms Convergence (ITC) research aims to further the Internet's evolution by clearly identifying an evolving array of technical, economic, or policy-related hurdles. The ...

Program on Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy

The new Program on Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (P-STEP) aims to develop critical knowledge to aid private and government decision-makers, to understand regulatory impacts on industry ...

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 ( ...

Sloan School of Management

Through innovative research, MIT Sloan faculty create and redefine ideas at the forefront of management theory and practice around the globe.

Technology and Law Program

The Technology and Law Program offers a cluster of graduate-level subjects associated with the Technology and Policy Program (TPP) at MIT, as well as research opportunities at the interface of law and ...

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, ...