Teamwork
Graduating engineers are highly valued for both the disciplinary skills and creative new approaches they bring to organizations they join. Most practicing engineers and technical managers would agree, however, that teamwork and communication skills are a close second!

A key facet of the MIT Aero/Astro MEng program involves a team-oriented design project. Project work is the basis for the MEng Thesis. MEng teams are formed with students, Institute faculty members, technical support staff, and industry engineers and/or managers. The team activity is structured to provide a practice-oriented context in which teamworking knowledge and skills can be refined.

Cross-disciplinary teamwork skills are nurtured first in class via lecture and group problem sets and exercises. Systems engineering integrative mechanisms are developed as a means for dealing with a project's inherent complexity and the inevitable human biases that can compromise quality engineering efforts. A working knowledge of behavior/communication/problem-solving styles is developed along with review and presentation best practices that can improve communications.

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