MIT New Engineering Education Transformation (NEET)

The New Engineering Education Transformation (NEET) program was launched in 2017 under the MIT School of Engineering as a bold, cross-departmental effort to reimagine undergraduate engineering education at MIT. NEET is a 3-year, certificate program that offers undergraduates an interdisciplinary, project-centric learning experience beginning in their sophomore year.
NEET scholars choose from one of four immersive, high-impact subject areas, or "threads" to pursue over the course of the program: Autonomous Machines, Climate & Sustainability Systems, Digital Cities, or Living Machines. NEET scholars who complete all requirements will receive a certificate in their chosen thread at the end of their senior year.
Throughout the program, NEET scholars practice their passions on the frontier of innovation in a vibrant community, supported by ample mentorship from the NEET thread instructors and faculty leads. NEET strives to embody the spirit of Mens et Manus through its hands-on, team-based learning approach that enables its scholars to bring their coursework to life in practical, collaborative, and interdisciplinary settings.
NEET's pedagogy and opportunities continue to be responsive to student interests and current industry demands to equip its scholars with the diverse education and relevant experience necessary to succeed as leaders in their future careers and make meaning contributions to society.
Are your ready to transform your ambitions into action? Apply to NEET in the fall of your sophomore year to join our engineering revolution.

New Machines and Systems

An engineering education should focus on the new machines and systems students will build in the 21st century.

Makers and Discoverers

Students should be prepared with the fundamentals to act as makers and discoverers, a foundation for careers in research and practice.

The Way Students Learn Best

An education should be built around the way our students learn best by engaging them in their learning and finding the best balance of classroom, project, and digital learning.

NEET Ways of Thinking

The NEET Ways of Thinking are conceived specifically to help students thrive in an atmosphere of rapid scientific and technological development.

Making

Inventing and creating artifacts that have never before been in existence: Conceiving (understanding needs and technology, and creating concept), designing, implementing, and operating products and systems that deliver value.

Discovering

Advancing the knowledge of our society and world by exploring, identifying, and generating new knowledge, often by conducting research that leads to new fundamental discoveries and technologies.

Interpersonal skills

Engaging with and understanding other people: communicating, listening, emotional intelligence, working in and leading teams, collaboration and networking, advocacy and leading change.

Personal skills / attitudes

Initiative, judgment, and decision making; responsibility and urgency; flexibility and self-confidence; acting ethically and with integrity; social responsibility; dedication to lifelong learning.

Creative thinking

Forming something new and valuable by focusing thought and incubating new ideas, illuminating and articulating them in conscious awareness, and verifying them.

Systems thinking

Predicting the emergence of a whole by examining inter-related entities in context in the face of complexity and ambiguity; for both homogeneous systems and systems that integrate multiple technologies.

Critical / metacognitive thinking

Analytical thinking

Working systematically and logically to break down facts and resolve problems; identifying causation and anticipating results by applying theory, modeling, and mathematical analysis.

Computational thinking

Using computation to understand physical, biological, and social systems by applying the fundamental constructs of computer programming (abstractions, modularity, recursion), data structures, and algorithms.

Experimental

Conducting experiments to obtain data: selecting measurements, determining procedures to validate data, formulating and testing hypotheses.

Humanistic

Developing a broad understanding of society and its traditions and institutions: knowledge of human cultures, human systems of thought, modes of expression in the arts, and the social, political, and economic frameworks of society.

The Global Undergraduate Education Study

Published in March 2018, the report has generated world-wide interest. Drawing on interviews with 178 individuals with in-depth knowledge and experience of world-leading engineering programs, the report provides a snapshot of the cutting edge of global engineering education, as well as a horizon scan of how the state of the art is likely to develop in the future.
The report’s findings pointed to three defining trends:
● A tilting of the global axis of engineering education leadership.● A move towards socially-relevant and outward-facing engineering curricula.● The emergence of a new generation of leaders in engineering education that delivers integrated student-centered curricula at scale.

DOWNLOAD REPORT