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CTPID, a multi-industry research enterprise, applies intellectual tools from engineering, management, and the social sciences to critical industry issues. CTPID's research programs investigate sustainable, global solutions to challenges in aerospace, automotive production, transportation, environmental policy, Internet technology and policy, materials systems, and technology and law. Visit the CTPID website for more information.

Collections in this community

• CTPID Archive

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

• Cooperative Mobility Program

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

• 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 Aerospace 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

• MIT Program on Information Quality

  Developing and testing new knowledge and information quality benchmarking standards

• Materials Systems Laboratory

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

• 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.