Ford-MIT Alliance
Ford and MIT have been collaborating since the 1950s. In 1998 the Ford-MIT Alliance was formalized and has created a model for mutually beneficial university-corporate research. The Alliance has prospered by evolving to keep pace with MIT's changing expertise and Ford's changing priorities and needs and the Alliance has conducted more than $45 million of collaborative research to date. Ford and MIT collaborate on a broad range of technical, business, and policy topics focused on the future of transportation including:
- Vehicle Autonomy
- Active safety
- Materials Science
- Energy Storage
- Powertrain Efficiency
- Enterprise Modeling
- Health and Wellness
The research projects are also linked with recruiting and with MIT's conferences and professional educational programs.
2013 Research Opportunities
The Alliance has issued a call for new projects, as they do each spring. MIT faculty and principal research scientists interested in exploring these opportunities are asked to submit a short email describing their idea (one paragraph is sufficient) to Co-Director John Leonard This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with cc: to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by May 17, 2013.
Faculty and staff
- John Leonard, Co-Director
- Edward Krause, Co-Director
- Anuradha M. Annaswamy, Senior Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering
- Hari Balakrishnan, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
- Cynthia Barnhart, Associate Dean of Engineering, School of Engineering
- Dimitris Bertsimas, Professor, Sloan School of Management
- Gerbrand Ceder, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
- Gang Chen, Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Wai K. Cheng, Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Joseph F. Coughlin, Director, Age Lab; Director New England University Transportation Center; MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics
- Munther A. Dahleh, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- James R. Glass, Principal Research Scientist, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
- Yang Shao-Horn, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Leslie Kaelbling, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Randolph Kirchain, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Systems
- Christopher Knittel, Professor, Sloan School of Management
- John Leonard, Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Rob Miller, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Richard de Neufville, Professor, Engineering Systems Division
- Cynthia Rudin, Assistant Professor, Sloan School of Management
- Devavrat Shah, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- David Simchi-Levi, Co-Director, Leaders for Global Operations; Professor, Engineering Systems Division and Civil Engineering
