Four-tenths of a second after launch, this two-liter bottle rocket ascends above Briggs Field during a Gordon Engineering Leadership Program activity.
Joseph Maurer—The Tech
In this popular Engineering Leadership Lab, fondly known as "Blast Off", GELs (Gordon Engineering Leaders) practiced the skills of resourcefulness, ingenuity, and decision making. The formed teams, created a plan, obtained resources, and built a project (a water-propelled rocket) to customer requirements within budget and on schedule.
If this sounds like something MIT graduates will be expected to do when they get a job in the engineering industry, that's on purpose.
Discover more about the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program at web.mit.edu/gordonelp