SP.248 gives first-year students an opportunity to explore various interdisciplinary domains, or threads: Autonomous Machines, Climate and Sustainability Systems, Digital Cities, and Living Machines, all of which are a part of the New Engineering Education Transformation (NEET) program. Students gain knowledge and skills in those domains through interactions with NEET faculty, instructors, and students, and exercise their algorithmic, creative, and systems thinking through team-based challenges taken from those domains.
Download the Fall 2025 class on MIT OpenCourseWare to preview some of the challenges assigned in SP.248: The NEET Experience!
Every two weeks, I'm joined by a different instructor from the NEET program (a 2nd-4th year extra-curricular program at MIT) to focus on an interdisciplinary domain taken from one of the four NEET threads: Autonomous Machines, Climate & Sustainability Systems, Digital Cities, or Living Machines.
NEET Thread Lead Instructors + Lecturers
● Dr. Cong Cong, Digital Cities● Dr. Gregory Long, Autonomous Machines● Dr. Mehdi Salek, Living Machines● Dr. Nathan King, Climate + Sustainability Systems
Preview SP.248
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SP.248 gives first-year students an opportunity to explore various interdisciplinary domains, or threads: autonomous machines, climate and sustainability systems, digital cities, and living machines, all of which are a part of the New Engineering Education Transformation (NEET) program. Students gain knowledge and skills in those domains through interactions with NEET faculty, instructors, and students, and exercise their algorithmic, creative, and systems thinking through team-based challenges taken from those domains.