Spotlight on engineering staff The MIT School of Engineering hosted its 18th annual Infinite Mile Awards ceremony on May 24, to recognize and reward members of the school’s administrative, support, service, and sponsored research staff whose work is of the highest caliber. The awards support the Institute’s and the School...
Producing a global technology toolkit
The Comprehensive Initiative on Technology Evaluation teams up with the Technology Exchange Lab to produce a toolkit for technology evaluation in global development. According to the World Bank, over 1.1 billion people have lifted themselves from extreme poverty since 1990. But even as the global outlook on extreme poverty improves,...
Sociotechnical Systems and the Future of Human-Model Interactions
Involved in the systems engineering of multiple domains and disciplines, Dr. Donna Rhodes says the path forward in engineering is truly model-centric. Read the full article written by Daniel de Wolff here. For more than 20 years Donna Rhodes has played a leading role in the advancement of sociotechnical systems...
Systems theory for society’s big problems
Ali Jadbabaie seeks to optimize large-scale systems, from social networks to teams of people or devices. Some of the biggest issues facing humanity — from global climate change, to water and power infrastructure, to monetary systems, social networks, and other complex systems — involve massive amounts of data that are...