Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, in french Institute of technology ofMassachusetts, is a Research Institute and a University, specialized in the fields of science and technology. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the immediate vicinity of Boston, to the northeast of the United States, it is often seen in the 21st century as one of the best world universities in science and technology.
He is the editor of Technology Review, a journal devoted to the engineering sciences and innovation.
In the 21st century, put it is a world leader for education and research in science and technology, but he is also known in other fields such as management, economics,Linguistics, political science and philosophy. Most curriculum is that of engineer, with 2,000 students, and then the science.
What characterizes MIT is its proximity to the industrial world and its very strong involvement in scientific and technological research in which students participate in their first year of studies. In 2002, she was the first University to put all of its courses online on the Internet, MIT OpenCourseWare.
The students of MIT were 78 prize winners Nobel1 813 laureates, including WilliamBradford Shockley, inventor of the transistor, and Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, making it the 5th academic institution worldwide in terms of Nobel Prize. However, only 35% of these Nobels had been trained at the MIT, and only one-quarter of them were affiliated to the MIT during their nobelisation.
PUT it breaks down into 5 schools which contain 27 departments:
the school of architecture and planning (School of Architecture and Planning), created March 9, 1932
the Department of architecture (created March 9, 1932)
the laboratory of media arts and sciences
the Department of urban studies and planning
the school of Engineering (School of Engineering, created March 9, 1932)
the Department of Aeronautics and aerospace
the Department of biological engineering
the Department of chemical engineering
the Department of civil and environmental engineering
the Department of electrical and computer engineering
Engineering Systems division
the Department of science and engineering of materials
the Department of mechanical engineering
nuclear science and Engineering Department
