16 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Intro sequences

The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.

• 1. 16.002Unified Engineering: Signals and Systems
  2. 16.06Principles of Automatic Control

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate 16 coursework.

• 6.100BIntroduction to Computational Thinking and Data Scienceopens 25 courses (6 directly)
• 2.005Thermal-Fluids Engineering Iopens 13 courses (3 directly)
• 16.004Unified Engineering: Thermodynamics and Propulsionopens 12 courses (7 directly)
• 16.003Unified Engineering: Fluid Dynamicsopens 11 courses (6 directly)
• 6.3000Signal Processingopens 8 courses (6 directly)
• 16.06Principles of Automatic Controlopens 7 courses (5 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate 16 work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 110 16 and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 108 more 16 courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in 16. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 6 courses deep, ending at 16.120

  1. 6.100AIntroduction to Computer Science Programming in Python
  2. 6.100BIntroduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science
  3. 2.005Thermal-Fluids Engineering I
  4. 2.006Thermal-Fluids Engineering II
  5. 2.25Fluid Mechanics
  6. 16.120Compressible Internal Flow

• 6 courses deep, ending at 16.530

  1. 6.100AIntroduction to Computer Science Programming in Python
  2. 6.100BIntroduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science
  3. 2.005Thermal-Fluids Engineering I

• 5 courses deep, ending at 16.13

  1. 18.03Differential Equations
  2. 16.003Unified Engineering: Fluid Dynamics
  3. 16.100Aerodynamics

• 5 courses deep, ending at 16.84

  1. 6.100AIntroduction to Computer Science Programming in Python
  2. 6.100BIntroduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science
  3. 1.00Engineering Computation and Data Science

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for 16 yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under 16 yet.

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Department events

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