Recent changes in the electrical engineering curriculum at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, N. Y., require every undergraduate to build up his skills, self-confidence, and independence by a graded laboratory program beginning with demonstrations and supervised exercises and terminating with an independent or group project. At the same time, each graduate student is offered an opportunity to take a graduate laboratory course consisting of all-day projects, under a teacher's supervision, easing his transition to independent research. By combining the two programs with respect to project work, the department has been able to generate considerable thrust and thereby secure grants and gifts for new equipment.