SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

The MIT School of Engineering (SoE) 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 a reorganization of the Institute recommended by President Karl Taylor Compton. The school comprises eight academic departments, including Aeronautics and Astronautics, Biological Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Nuclear Science and Engineering, as well as two interdisciplinary institutes: the Institute for Data, Systems & Society and the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science. It grants SB, MEng, SM, engineer's degrees, and PhD or ScD degrees. As of 2026, the Dean of Engineering is Professor Paula T. Hammond. The school is the largest at MIT as measured by undergraduate and graduate enrollments and faculty members. It also oversees numerous laboratories and research centers, such as the Center for Transportation and Logistics, the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, among others.