A Progress Studies History of Early MIT—Part 1: Training the engineers who built the country – Good Science Project

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Executive Summary: Early MIT was a remarkably differentiated product from the other elite universities of its day. The Institute saw its mission as being, first and foremost, to serve the needs of industry. And the primary mechanism it leveraged to do this was an engineering education that married the hands-on, technical training of trade schools with knowledge of the scientific principles relevant to ones field. This created engineers who had experience in the production process on the level of a foreman, but who were also endowed with the engineering and scientific education that allowed them to accurately troubleshoot and overcome a variety of technical problems when in the field. It was this education that was likely responsible for MIT’s alumni being able to thrive in vital engineering roles in America’s era of peak economic growth, an era whose growth is largely credited to engineering and technical feats. This is a style of education that individuals and organizations interested

July 30, 2022 A Progress Studies History of Early MIT—Part 1: Training the engineers who built the country MIT Campus in 1865, from https://www.blackhistory.mit.edu/archive/early-mit-campus-ca-1865 by Eric Gilliam Executive Summary: Early MIT was a remarkably differentiated product from the other elite universities of its day. The Institute saw its mission as being, first and foremost, to serve the needs of industry. And the primary mechanism it leveraged to do this was an engineering education that married the hands-on, technical training of trade schools with knowledge of the scientific prin

A Progress Studies History of Early MIT—Part 1: Training the engineers who built the country – Good Science Project

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