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CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
3. Initiation of a comprehensive program of research on airplane,
airship, and motor design, as well as on the theoretical
basis of aeronautics.
As in the older departmcnts of physics, chemistry, and mathematics,
emphasis is placed primarily upon the development of
graduate study and research in the different branches of aeronautical
engineering; but provision has also been made in the
Four-Year Undergraduate Course in Engineering for a definite
option leading to such graduate study and research. This will
afford a broad and thorough preparation in the basic science and
engineering upon which aeronautics rests, and will include an
introductory survey course in aeronautics in the senior year.
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 reasonable proficiency in aeronautic design, there
is awarded at the end of the first year the degree of "Master of
Science for the completion of a Coursc in Mechanical Engineering"
and at the end of the second year, the degree of "Master
of Science for the completion of a Course in Aeronautical Engineering."
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.
Still more advanced study and research is 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.