Practice-Oriented
Since WWII, the engineering science era has resulted in research-oriented graduate studies that typically prepare students for more advanced studies. Graduating students who chose to work in industry, more often than not, found themselves working as an apprentice to a practicing engineer to learn the practical practices of engineering. For some time, during which resources were plentiful, this mode of operating was accepted. Recently, however, global competitiveness has increased. Successful products now must carefully balance both performance and cost. This change in emphasis has resulted in companies demanding that academia prepare students for the practice of engineering and in so doing reduce the expense of the "on-the-job-training" that companies have been absorbing in he past.

The MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics MEng Program has been developed with the support of many aerospace industry companies to address this need.

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