MIT to build center for advanced engineering study

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has recently made a $5 million grant to the Massachuseus Institute of Technology for the establishment of a center to be known as Center for Advanced Engineering Study. The Center will give practicing engineers in industry and professors of engineering from other schools the opportunity to attend MIT for a period of formal study to master the new sciences which have emerged since their early education and to work at the frontiers of engineering. This major addition to MIT´s School of Engineering is said to be the first of its kind. Its establishment comes in response to a national need for more engineering leaders who can exploit the most modern concepts of science.