Doctor Of Engineering

DOCTOR OF ENGINEERING.

New Degree Offered by Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

A degree never before competed for by students in American technical schools has just been offered by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A young man who has completed the work of one of the regular courses of four years may now study special problems in electricity, sanitary engineering, railroad construction and the like and as a result receive the degree of Eng. D." (doctor of engineering), corresponding to the doctorate of philosophy (Ph D.) granted by literary colleges for valuable achievements in the field of scholarship.

The degree has never before been given in this country for actual work though it has been granted as an honorary distinction. In Germany, however it has been bestowed upon advanced students since the Royal School of Technology at Charlottenburg was started by the Emperor William in 1899 The kaiser himself established the degree and declared his intention of making the standards of the great scientific schools as respectable and respected as those of the regular universities, and although one of the Germans who has already taken his Eng D. is Prince Henry of the royal family the honor was conferred as a recognition of his attainments as naval engineer.

As in Germany, therefore, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology intends to graduate no doctors of engineering who have not given to the study of practical problems of living just such devotion and painstaking accuracy as characterize student life in the graduate schools of Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, Michigan or Chicago. A student, in other words, cannot get the right of writing Eng. D. after his name until he has found out something valuable which the world did not know before.