Glossary - D

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• DIT — Dublin Institute of Technology
• DKE — Delta Kappa Epsilon
• DLC — Departments, Labs, and Centers (DLCs) is used as a catch-all term to indicate an organizational unit at MIT
• DLCs — Departments, Laboratories and Centers - used to refer to all academic and research areas; may be used to include central units.
• DMA — DuPont MIT Alliance
• DMCs — Distributed Mail Centers
• DME — Department of Mechanical Engineering
• DMSE — Department of Materials Science and Engineering
• DNS — An Internet service that translates domain names into IP addresses.
• DOD — (Federal) Department of Defense
• DOE (Department of Education ) — The Federal Department of Education's mission is to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access.
• DOE (Department of Energy ) — Department of the United States government concerned with the United States' policies regarding energy and safety in handling nuclear material.
• DOL — (Federal) Department of Labor
• DOME — Distributed Object-based Modeling Environment (for designing on the web)
• DormCon — Dormitory Council
• DormLine — Dormitory telephone exchange
• Double E — Electrical Engineering
• Draper — Charles Stark Draper Lab, Inc.
• Dropbox — Dropbox is a cloud-storage service.
• DS — Departmental Services (Information Systems & Technology)
• DSA — Dean for Student Affairs (old name)
• DSL — Dean for Student Life
• DSO — Disabilities Services Office
• DSP — Division of Sponsored Programs (former name of the Office of Sponsored Programs)
• DSpace — An open-source institutional digital repository developed by the MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Co. to capture, store, distribute and preserve the intellectual output of MIT's faculty and research staff
• DSPG — Digital Signal Processing Group (Prof. Alan Oppenheim's research group in the Research Laboratory of Electronics)
• DSP Lab — Digital Signal Processing Laboratory
• DSR — Division of Sponsored Research (former name for the Office of Sponsored Research)
• DSRE — Division for Study and Research in Education (old)
• DTE — Dance Theater Ensemble
• DU — Delta Upsilon
• DUE — The MIT Dean for Undergraduate Education and associated offices and business units
• DUNS — Data Universal Numbering System (MIT's DUNS number, 00-142-5594, must be included on applications for federal grants and cooperative agreements.)
• Duo — A two-factor authentication system that leverages cellphones, landlines and smartphones as an "Approve" or "Deny" system to identify users.
• DUSP — Department of Urban Studies and Planning
• DynaMIT — A real-time traffic management system used in the Intelligent Transportation Systems lab at MIT or a summer camp for low income kids held at MIT to ignite their interests in STEM careers