MIT Partners
We are working collaboratively with departments both at MIT and beyond to develop technical curricula as well as pilot cognitive approaches such as creative thinking and critical thinking that would be embedded in NEET projects and seminars.
Founding and host department for Autonomous Machines.
NEET Ways of Thinking: Lead developer of Creative Thinking modules
Founding and host department for Living Machines
Participating in Living Machines and Renewable Energy Machines
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Co-founding and co-host department for Renewable Energy Machines
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Participating in Autonomous Machines, Digital Cities and Living Machines
NEET Ways of Thinking: Co-lead developer of Ethical Engineering modules
Materials Science & Engineering
Founding and host department for Advanced Materials Machines
Mechanical Engineering
Participating in Advanced Materials Machines, Autonomous Machines, Living Machines, and Renewable Energy Machines
Co-founding and co-host department for Renewable Energy Machines
Urban Studies & Planning
Founding and host department for Digital Cities
Experiential Learning Opportunities (ELO)
Grant funding supports experiential learning projects in NEET Threads
Gordon Engineering Leadership (GEL) program
NEET Ways of Thinking: Co-lead developer of Ethical Engineering modules
Mind Hand Heart Innovation Fund
Community Innovation Funds
Collaborating with the NEET Renewable Energy Machines thread
Collaborating with the NEET Renewable Energy Machines thread
NEET Ways of Thinking: Lead developer of Self-learning modules
Program on Science, Technology & Society
NEET Ways of Thinking: Lead developer of Critical Thinking modules
J-WELAbdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab
NEET Ways of Thinking: Lead developer of Critical Thinking modules
Global Academic Community
NEET has delivered invited presentations at other institutions, including Harvard University; Tsinghua University; Olin College; Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands; at J-WEL Week; McMaster University, Canada; Arizona State University, Tempe; University of Maryland, College Park; the North American Materials Education Symposium; EU-US High-Level Expert Meeting on Biotechnology, Brussels; University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Open Innovation Forum, Moscow; Afeka College, Israel; HCT, Dubai; and, ITA, Brazil.
Visitors to MIT with whom the NEET experience was shared and discussed included Reykjavik University, Iceland; Australian National University; Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore; Aalborg University, Denmark; University of Groningen, Netherlands; USAID Egypt Center for Energy Study Tour; German Small and Medium Scale Companies; Bauman University, Moscow; Université Paris-Saclay, France; Brazil Engineering Education Study Tour; Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU); Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM), Monterrey, Mexico; Universidad de Montevideo (UM), Uruguay; Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, and; ABET.
In April 2019 MIT and Olin College jointly convened a first-of-its-kind Colloquium on the Global State of the Art in Engineering Education, based on the NEET-commissioned global undergraduate education benchmarking study. The report from that study was released in March 2018 and has generated worldwide interest. There were 94 participants in the Colloquium from the 16 current and emerging global leaders identified through the study; they included presidents, provosts, deans, senior faculty, educators, academic and technical staff, and students. The proceedings will be published in ASEE’s Advances in Engineering Education as a Special Issue. The 16 institutions involved in the first Colloquium have proposed that this community should be nurtured and developed. They have announced that the second Colloquium will be held at University College London in April 2020; the organizers are UCL, London, Aalborg University, Denmark, and TU/Delft, Netherlands.
These efforts are in line with the objective of articulating and widely disseminating the positive outcomes of the NEET program so that it benefits the global education community.