The NEET Experience
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. Subject can count toward the 6-unit discovery-focused credit limit for first-year students.
Fall 2025
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.
Prerequisites & course information
Prereq: None U (Fall) 1-0-2 units
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Fall 2025
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.