Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program
The Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program is an undergraduate program in MIT's School of Engineering that builds tomorrow's engineering leaders and responds to a national need to develop qualified students into leading technical endeavors. The program provides services for students, resources for faculty, and opportunities for industry to support, sustain, promote and enrich MIT's efforts to develop engineering leaders.
For an exclusive group of MIT students, the program is an intensely personalized leadership development program featuring a high degree of interaction with industry leaders, faculty, and fellow students. For other MIT engineering juniors and seniors committed to honing their engineering leadership skills, the Gordon engineer track also offers authentic and unparalleled leadership experiences.
The program educates and develops the character of outstanding MIT students as potential future leaders in the world of engineering practice and development and transforms engineering leadership in the nation, thereby significantly increasing its product development capability.
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.
Launched 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 MIT continues to lead the nation in developing effective engineering leaders.
