The Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program (GEL Program) recently revamped and relaunched Engineering Design and Rapid Prototyping (D-PRO), a Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics course last taught in 2012. It was updated to center on a new multidisciplinary project focused on the fundamental skills in engineering design.

D-PRO serves as one of five elective course offerings students in the GEL 1 Program can choose to fulfill the Design and Innovation Leadership Requirement. The course aims for students to develop a holistic view of the design process within an engineering industry context, which they do by conceiving, designing, prototyping, and testing a multidisciplinary component or system. D-PRO integrates classroom-based learning with hands-on exploration, challenging small teams of students to design and develop solutions to a modified, real-life application.

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