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The Institute offers two four-year Courses of Undergraduate
Study, known as the Course in Engineering and the Course in
Science. For the satisfactory completion of these Courses the
degree of Bachelor of Science is awarded. The Course in Engineering
is supplemented by definitely laid out fifth-year Courses
In Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical, and
Aeronautical Engineering. The Course in Science prepares for
fifth-year Courses in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Physics,
Geology, Paleontology, Biology, and Mathematics. For the completion
of any of these fifth-year Courses the degree of Master
of Science is awarded.
THE COURSES IN ENGINEERING
The five-year plan of engineering instruction is based on recognition
of the fact that a four-year period of study is inadequate
to give satisfactorily the combination of cultural, basic scientific,
and engineering studies essential to the highest type of engineer,
and to afford at the same time leisure for the development of
the physical well-being and human interests of the students. The
four-year Course will train, more broadly and fundamentally
than the Engineering Courses now given at most institutions, the
large proportion of students who study engineering not to make
themselves engineering experts in a specialized sense, but to fit
themselves to fit satisfactorily into administrative positions in the
utilities and manufacturing industries, and to serve as operating
and constructing engineers in such industries. The fifth-year
Courses, based on this broad fundamental preparation, and coordinated
with it so as to constitute a harmonious, unified, fiveyear
period of study, with no sharp breaks between the undergraduate
and graduate periods, will afford the more intensive