A Case Study: Raytheon Corporation

Jim McGrath
Senior Principal Electrical Engineer
Raytheon Company

WPI's ability to design a customized program, with content and delivery to meet the specific needs at Raytheon, has resulted in a strong relationship for the past several years. Jim McGrath, Senior Principal Electrical Engineer at Raytheon “is extremely satisfied with WPI’s ability to tailor the academic program to meet their needs. Systems Engineering is a key education need for Raytheon’s highly skilled employees. The knowledge obtained by students participating in the WPI program helps improve our competitive position, as well as the capabilities of our employees. WPI has consistently provided an outstanding curriculum for Raytheon engineers”.

"The WPI Systems Engineering Master degree program is ideally suited to our products and business areas” says McGrath. “We wanted to be sure we got the highest quality teachers for Raytheon employees and our business. WPI has delivered by providing top faculty for the courses delivered at our corporate site. We continue to review the student evaluations, and participants are very pleased with the instructors and curriculum.”

“The ease of doing business with WPI Corporate and Professional Education has really helped support our decision in choosing them as an education partner. Their ability to consistently deliver top-quality Systems Engineering graduate programs has been phenomenal. The degree program is ideally suited to our products and business area.”

“One of the highlights of this program has been the capstone project that students complete in their last semester. This gives the students an opportunity to apply what they have learned to real world challenges. All of our graduates have brought a “systems” approach to their work. The combination of technical and management skills that comprise this program have really benefited the Raytheon participants and allowed them to apply their knowledge into work situations”. An example is one student that Jim worked with “that embraced a systems approach to solve a deployable satellite communication system problem. He worked with Raytheon’s US Navy customer, several other government organizations, as well as numerous Raytheon internal groups and crafted a solution for all stakeholders. His education provided the skills necessary to adjudicate diverse requirements from all the stakeholders".

“The key strength of the WPI Systems Engineering graduate program is empowering the employees. The excellent relationship between Raytheon and WPI that has developed over several years has been built across many areas of cooperation and collaboration. We look forward to continuing a mutually beneficial relationship by understanding each others’ skills and capabilities”.

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