MIT Engineering Leadership Program
Launched in 2008 through a $20 million gift by the Gordon Foundation — the largest gift made to MIT's School of Engineering for curriculum development — the Program aims to create new approaches to prepare students for engineering leadership, and to ensure that MIT continues to lead the nation in developing effective engineering leaders.
Through project-based learning, extensive interaction with industry leaders (including the Program's unique InternshipPlus opportunities), hands-on product development, engineering leadership labs, and authentic leadership challenges and exercises, the program transforms a highly motivated group of undergraduate students into engineering leaders who will fuel America's technology engine.
The program offers MIT undergraduates a one-year program for seniors, or a two-year program for juniors. The two-year students guide the larger group, as a group of approximately 20–30 seniors. This is a new change in the program, to make leadership education available to the wider MIT community. Previously, there was only a two-year program offered.
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