Progress and Resilience
In an ever-evolving discipline like Management Science and Engineering, we must be ready for unexpected opportunities. Your generosity helps keep us on our toes, poised to improve our world.
Support Management Science and Engineering
Always at the forefront of innovation, the Department of Management Science and Engineering seeks to create solutions to pressing societal problems by integrating and pushing the frontiers of operations research, economics, and organization science.
Gifts to MS&E build vital resources that are ready wherever and whenever they are needed most. That flexibility enables us to bring on promising new faculty, support world-class students, take risks on new research projects, and more.
Planning for the future
What does an MS&E graduate do? How do MS&E grads change the world?
MS&E recently celebrated 25 years since the department's founding, although we have a rich history that began long before MS&E became what it is today. At the celebration, we heard from alumni who have changed the world through research, optimization, policy, entrepreneurship, and much more.
Now, we ask for your help in planning for our next 25 years of impact. And for a little inspiration, you can relive the 25th anniversary celebration by reading our recap article, watching videos of the panel sessions and fireside chats, and browsing our photo gallery.
What can your gift do?
Launch research careers
Gifts help us jumpstart promising new faculty research careers through a faculty launch fund. These funds are a crucial way MS&E supports rising academic stars as they begin their Stanford careers.
Launch funds also allow faculty to pursue emerging and theoretical research, for which there are typically fewer external funding opportunities than more mature and applied research areas. This basic research can set the stage for innovation and applications that wouldn't otherwise have been discovered.
Get to know our two newest faculty members:
"My startup funds back up the promise I make to my PhD students, to support their research as long as they're making progress, no matter the vagaries of federal funding."
~ Madeleine Udell, Assistant Professor
"The startup funds I received were crucial. They enabled us to take on innovative and risky projects that might have been too difficult to start without this initial support."
~Markus Pelger, Associate Professor
Support students
Gifts help us create an unparalleled experience for students by funding graduate fellowships, summer programs, and more. Our current, constrained funding environment has reduced available funds, specifically for PhD students, and supporting student research is of paramount importance.
Advance scientific discovery
Gifts help fund MS&E Seed Grants that support scientific research, and that research is becoming more important than ever. Especially for junior faculty, it is becoming more and more challenging to secure the research funding that helps improve our world.
Giving today is a commitment to solving tomorrow’s greatest challenges.
Our community of donors makes our nimble strength a reality. Help us seize opportunities to stay at the forefront of engineering research and education.