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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


SCC

Schwarzman College of Computing


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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