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MIT lingo

S

S3Student Support Services

SAA

Student Art Association

SAAS

South Asian American Students

SACC

Student Action Coordinating Committee (old)

SAE

Sigma Alpha Epsilon

SAFO

Student Activities Finance Office (part of Student Life Programs)

SAIS

Student and Administrative Information Services, a directorate within IS&T

Sala

La Sala de Puerto Rico, a large, all-purpose room in the Student Center

SANDI

Staff Appointments and Distribution (staff and exempt payroll account sheets)

SAO

Student Activities Office

SA+P

School of Architecture and Planning

SAP

German company which provides the computer software that MIT uses for finance, HR, Payroll, etc

SARA

Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act

SAS

Student Assistance Services

SAS

Statistical Analysis Software

S.B.

Bachelor of Science (degree)

SBIR

Small Business Innovation Research program

SBM

Society for Biomaterials

SC

Sigma Chi

SCC

Student Center Committee

Sc.D.

Doctor of Science (degree)

SCEP

School of Chemical Engineering Practice

SCEP

Student Committee on Educational Policy (old)

SCFG

Science Club for Girls

SCOUTs

Surface Crafts for Oceanographic and Undersea Testing

SDM

System Design and Management (Program)

S.E.

Sanitary Engineer (degree)

SEBC

Science and Engineering Business Club

SEBL

Scanning-Electron-Beam Lithography (a facility in the Nanostructures Laboratory)

SEDS

Students for the Exploration and Development of Space

SEED

Saturday Engineering Enrichment and Discovery (Academy)

SEIP

Student Extended (Medical) Insurance Premium

SEM

Undergraduate Seminar (subject designation)

SEMS

Student Emergency Medical Services

SEO

Student Employment Office

SEPT

Science and Engineering Program for Teachers

SES(Doctoral Program in) Social and Engineering Systems

SEVIS

Student Exchange Visitor Information System (of the US Immigration and Naturalization Service)

SEVT

Solar Electric Vehicle Team

SFS

Student Financial Services

SH

Student House

SHAC

Student Health Advisory Committee

SHASS

School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

SHBT

Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology

SHPE

Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers

SHR

Subcommittee on the HASS Requirement

SI@MIT

Sports Innovation @ MIT

SIA

Signals Information and Algorithms (a group in the Research Laboratory of Electronics)

Sig Ep

Sigma Phi Epsilon

SIGUS

Special Interest Group in Urban Settlements

SIP

Sloan Innovation Period

SIP

Session Initiation Protocol (industry term)

SIPB

Student Information Processing Board

SIS

Student Information System

SK

Sigma Kappa

SL

Service Learning

SL

Sloan Laboratory

S-LAB

Laboratory for Sustainable Business

SLIP

Systematic List Processor (programming language)

SloanSpace

an online course management system for putting courses on the Internet

SLP

Student Life Programs

SLS

Spoken Language Systems, a group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

S.M.

Master of Science (degree)

SMA

Singapore-MIT Alliance

S.M.Arch.S.

Master of Science in Architectural Studies (degree)

SMART

Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (Center)

SMBT

Master of Science in Building Technology (degree)

SmL

Servomechanisms Laboratory

Smoot

Unit of measurement of Harvard Bridge that used an MIT student named Smoot

SMR

Sloan Management Review

S.M.T.

Master of Science in Transportation (degree)

S.M.Vis.S.

Master of Science in Visual Studies (degree)

 

SNC

Sensor Network Consortium. (MIT is one of the academic members.)

SOCR

CUP's Subcommittee on the Communication Requirement

SoE

School of Engineering

SOP

Standard Operating Procedure

SOHO

Solar and Heliospheric Observatory

SoS

School of Science

SPAMIT

Stupid People at MIT (humorous t-shirt)

SPE

Sigma Phi Epsilon

SpecLab

(George Russell Harrison) Spectroscopy Laboratory

SPHERES

Synchronized Position Hold Engage Re-orient Experimental Satellites (at MIT Aero-Astro)

SPHR

Senior Professional in Human Resources - level of certification by SHRM

SPS

Special Studies (subject designation)

SPURS

Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies

SRE

Study and Research in Education

SSC

Student Services Center

SSG

Stochastic Systems Group (in Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems)

SSIT

Student Services Information Technology (formerly ODSUE-IT); part of IS&T as of 2005

SSL

Space Systems Laboratory

SSL

Secure Socket Layer (protocol for managing security on the Internet)

SSM

Sloan School of Management

SSP

Security Studies Program

SSPCC

Student Systems and Policies Coordinating Committee

SSPR

Support Staff Peer Resources

SSRC

Sociotechnical Systems Research Center

STC

Student Technology Consultants

STEM

Science Technology Engineering Math program at MIT for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders from Boston Public Schools

STEP

Secondary Technical Education Project (also called Project STEP)

STIR

Signal Transformation and Information Representation (a group in the Research Laboratory of Electronics)

stopit

MIT-wide process to report cases of misuse of MIT's computer systems

STOP

Security Tracking of Office Property (in Campus Police)

STS

(Program in) Science, Technology, and Society

STS

Sloan Technology Services

$SumMIT

(Not an acronym) An application for financial reporting from MIT's legacy accounting systems. Most of its purpose was replaced by SAP.

SWE

Society of Women Engineers

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