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STUDY AND RESEARCH AT THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE 121
addition to the above special types of equipment, shop facilities are
available to students engaged in research problems.
The facilities of the Institute are available for students desirous
of taking higher degrees, and for qualified workers who wish to carry
out researches in the fields detailed above. A few fellowships can be
granted to selected men.
As in the older divisions of physics, chemistry, and mathematics,
emphasis is placed primarily upon the development of graduate study
and research; but provision has also been made in the four-year
undergraduate course in engineering for work leading to such graduate
study and research. This affords a broad and thorough preparation
in the basic science and engineering upon which aeronautics
rests.
As in the other branches, there are offered in aeronautics definite
graduate courses leading to the degree of Master of Science. Since
not less than two years of graduate work are required to attain proficiency
in Aeronautics or Meteorology, there may be awarded at the
end of the first year the degree of "Bachelor of Science for the completion
of a Course in Aeronautics (or Meteorology)" while the
degree of "Master of Science for the completion of a Course in Aeronautics
(or Meteorology)" is granted after the complete two-year
course.
The graduate courses may be taken either by students who have
completed a four-year course at the Institute, or by students from
other colleges who have had substantially the same preparation. The
field of aeronautical engineering is so many-sided that a student who
has completed the undergraduate course either in engineering or in
science will be admitted to the fifth-year course. The sixth-year
work, however, may be taken only by students who have completed
the fifth-year course at the Institute or who have had substantially
the same preparation elsewhere.
StilI more advanced study and research are offered for the degree
of Doctor of Philosophy. This degree is given under the same general
conditions as those that obtain in the other courses offered at the
Institute.