[kanak]

I think there's a misunderstanding about how the class actually works.

First off, this is for students in Aero-Astro program. It's not something that all engineers take; it's simply the starting courses for the aero astro people.

Second, even though the name suggests that it's some course that tries to teach you the intersection of all the topics, it's actually teaching you the union of the topics. From the course overview:

"Over the course of each semester, students engage in seven disciplines of study, listed below. Each discipline is taught for a fraction of the semester, through a series of lectures. When one discipline concludes, students are quizzed and begin a new discipline."

Similarly, if you look at the calendar ( http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-0... ). You see that the students are essentially taking each sub-course separately.

It's more for scheduling convenience and to have the students up and running with all fields in Aero-Astro than to do some grand unification of these topics.