Advanced Study Program
Participants' Comments
Fellows Gain Knowledge and Contacts
Participants comment on their experience:
Expanded my knowledge base
A senior software engineer at IBM Rational came to the MIT Professional Education - Advanced Study Program to take MIT graduate computer science classes while working full time. The payoff?
“The class work expanded my knowledge base, helping me develop new product opportunities.”
Grow as a professional
An operations manager of the International Trading and Transport Department appreciated the teachers, the study materials and cases, living in Boston for four months, and meeting people from all over the world:
“It is an experience that allows you to grow as a professional and that you will never forget. It will open completely your mind and your thoughts.”
Close contact with faculty
A director in the Development Division of Osaka Gas Information System Research Institute came to MIT to study computational fluid dynamics and learn how to communicate with international peers. He particularly valued faculty contacts:
“I was able to have close contact with professors of several departments, such as mathematics, mechanics, and aeronautics.”
Career change
A vice president from Transmagneca C.A. became a fellow for the chance to work at the MIT computer labs and to study under people like Robert Fano. And it also helped a career transition:
“It seemed like a good way to help me with a career change from communications to digital electronics.”
Unique benefits
A professor of System Design Engineering at Japan’s Kanagawa Institute of Technology chose the Advanced Study Program because of the flexible schedule and MIT’s reputation as the best engineering school in the world:
“No other program in the world can offer the overall challenges and benefits of the Advanced Study Program .”
