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The MIT Sociotechnical Systems Research Center (SSRC) is an interdisciplinary research center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that is focused on sociotechnical systems that shape our world.

SSRC brings together faculty, researchers, students, and staff from across MIT with partners from around the world to study complex enterprises that span government, industry, the service sector, and healthcare. SSRC is affiliated with the MIT School of Engineering Engineering Systems Division.

The MIT Sociotechnical Systems Research Center was formerly known as the Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development (CTPID) and was renamed in February 2012.

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Current SSRC Programs:

• Center for Biomedical Innovation (CBI)
• Consortium for Engineering Program Excellence (CEPE)
• Ford-MIT Alliance
• Geospatial Data Center (GDC)
• Materials Systems Laboratory (MSL)
• MIT Information Quality (MITIQ)
• Project Health
• Systems Engineering Advancement Research Initiative (SEAri)

Sub-communities within this community

• Consortium for Engineering Program Excellence (CEPE)

• Lean Advancement Initiative (LAI)

• Project Health

Collections in this community

• Cooperative Mobility Program

  Global research on sustainable mobility, transportation trends, and economic and environmental impact

• CTPID Archive

  Materials from early CTPID research, former programs, and associated scholars

• Ford-MIT Alliance

  Institute-wide collaboration focusing on statistical engineering, virtual education, and the environment

• International Motor Vehicle Program

  Research on automotive industry dynamics from assembly to the extended enterprise, from e-business to sustainability

• Labor Aerospace Research Agenda

  MIT's Labor Aerospace Research Agenda is committed to advancing theory, practice, and policy with respect to the 21st century aerospace workforce

• Lean Advancement Initiative

  U.S. Air Force, aerospace industry, labor, and MIT collaborate to achieve lean capability at the enterprise level to deliver value to every stakeholder

• Lean Sustainment Initiative

  U.S. Air Force-industry-MIT research on applying lean principles to the maintenance, repair, and overhaul of defense aircraft

• Materials Systems Laboratory

  Analysis of the strategic implications of materials choice in the automotive, electronic, and aerospace industries

• MIT Program on Information Quality

  Developing and testing new knowledge and information quality benchmarking standards

• Program on Internet and Telecoms Convergence

  Research to identify and shape solutions to technical, economic, or policy hurdles slowing the Internet's evolution as a global communications infrastructure

• Program on Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy

  New program will focus on science and technology components of contemporary environmental issues

• Technology and Law Program

  Research and graduate studies bring law and technology perspectives to environmental, policy, trade, and sustainability issues