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CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY<br />
3. Initiation <strong>of</strong> a comprehensive program <strong>of</strong> research on airplane,<br />
airship, and motor design, as well as on the theoretical<br />
basis <strong>of</strong> aeronautics.<br />
As in the older departmcnts <strong>of</strong> physics, chemistry, and mathematics,<br />
emphasis is placed primarily upon the development <strong>of</strong><br />
graduate study and research in the different branches <strong>of</strong> aeronautical<br />
engineering; but provision has also been made in the<br />
Four-Year Undergraduate Course in Engineering for a definite<br />
option leading to such graduate study and research. This will<br />
afford a broad and thorough preparation in the basic science and<br />
engineering upon which aeronautics rests, and will include an<br />
introductory survey course in aeronautics in the senior year.<br />
As in the other branches, there are <strong>of</strong>fered in aeronautics<br />
definite graduate courses leading to the degree <strong>of</strong> Master <strong>of</strong><br />
Science. Since not less· than two years <strong>of</strong> graduate work are required<br />
to attain reasonable pr<strong>of</strong>iciency in aeronautic design, there<br />
is awarded at the end <strong>of</strong> the first year the degree <strong>of</strong> "Master <strong>of</strong><br />
Science for the completion <strong>of</strong> a Coursc in Mechanical Engineering"<br />
and at the end <strong>of</strong> the second year, the degree <strong>of</strong> "Master<br />
<strong>of</strong> Science for the completion <strong>of</strong> a Course in Aeronautical Engineering."<br />
The graduate courses may be taken either by students who<br />
have completed a four-year course at the <strong>Institute</strong>, or by students<br />
from other colleges who have had substantially the same preparation.<br />
The field <strong>of</strong> aeronautical engineering is so many-sided that<br />
a student who has completed the Undergraduate Course either in<br />
Engineering or in Science will be admitted to the Fifth-Year<br />
Course. The sixth-year work, however, may be taken only by<br />
students who have completed the Fifth-Year Course at the <strong>Institute</strong><br />
or who have had substantially the same preparation elsewhere.<br />
Still more advanced study and research is <strong>of</strong>fered for the<br />
Degree <strong>of</strong> Doctor <strong>of</strong> Philosophy. This degree is given under<br />
the same general conditions as those that obtain in the other<br />
courses <strong>of</strong>fered at the <strong>Institute</strong>.