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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's intercollegiate sports teams, called the MIT Engineers, compete mostly in NCAA Division III. MIT has won 22 Team National Championships and 42 Individual National Championships. MIT is the all-time Division III leader in producing Academic All-Americans (302) and ranks second across all NCAA Divisions ...
Aeronautics and Astronautics (Course 16) (Founded 1939) Biological Engineering (Course 20) (Founded 1998) Chemical Engineering (Course 10) (Founded 1920) Civil and Environmental Engineering (Course 1) (Founded 1865) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Course 6, joint department with MIT Schwarzman College of Computing) (Founded 1902)
MIT students refer to both their majors and classes using numbers or acronyms alone. [181] Departments and their corresponding majors are numbered in the approximate order of their foundation; for example, Civil and Environmental Engineering is Course 1, while Linguistics and Philosophy is Course 24. [182]
MIT president Susan Hockfield called Seminar XXI a "legendary program". [1] The Seminar XXI director stated in 2010 that the seminar was successful due to five factors: its "innovative approach" in using multiple perspectives to understand foreign policy, its intended audience of current or rising leaders, its faculty of "world-renowned ...
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Course I) offered classes in civil engineering since MIT's 1865 opening and was subject to repeated mergers with the departments of sanitary engineering and structural engineering before adopting its current name and organization in 1992.
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The curriculum for the electrical engineering program was created in 1882, and was the first such program in the country. [3] It was initially taught by the physics faculty. In 1902, the Institute set up a separate Electrical Engineering department.
MIT Presidents No. Term Image Name Term starts Term ends Notes 1 1: William Barton Rogers: 1862 1870 2 2: John Daniel Runkle: 1870 1878 – 3 William Barton Rogers 1879 1881 3 4: Francis Amasa Walker: 1881 1897 4 5: James Crafts: 1897 1900 5 6: Henry Smith Pritchett: 1900 1907 acting: Arthur Amos Noyes: 1907 1909 6 7: Richard Cockburn Maclaurin ...