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The Daniel J. Riccio Graduate Engineering Leadership Program—GradEL for short—develops MIT graduate students into technical leaders who will be more effective, efficient, and successful across all aspects of their professional lives.

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Explore GradEL

Get to know our curriculum and program.
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Earn Your Certificate

Jumpstart your career with the Graduate Certificate in Technical Leadership.
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Alumni & Friends

Share your expertise, mentor current students, and more.

Engineering leadership is an integration of diverse skills.
Here are the key capabilities you’ll develop through GradEL.

TLC Speaker Series

The Riccio Graduate Engineering Leadership Program presents:

Engineering Leadership: What it takes to define, engineer and deliver revolutionary products

Join us to learn how Dan Riccio led Apple’s engineering teams to launch the iPhone and other category-changing products.

Apply the insights you gain to your own technical leadership journey.

 

"GradEL equipped me with the exact skills and knowledge needed to complement my technical prowess and bridge the gap between the lab and real-life industry."

Lucio Milanese PhD ’23
Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Proxima Fusion