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NEET aims to educate young engineers to build the new machines and systems that will address societal needs of the 21st century. Students enter NEET in their sophomore year and join one of five threads, namely Advanced Materials Machines, Autonomous Machines, Digital Cities, Living Machines, and Renewable Energy Machines. Threads are cross-departmental pathways of subjects and projects in interdisciplinary areas. NEET students earn an SB degree in their declared major as well as a NEET Certificate in their thread, within the usual four-year duration. Enrollment in the program has increased from 28 students in Fall 2017 to 187 in Fall 2020. NEET students practice the 12 NEET Ways of Thinking, which are cognitive approaches for tackling complex challenges. Thus far, we have incorporated the Ways of Thinking into the program curriculum in two ways: (a) standalone Modules on four Ways of Thinking, i.e., Ethical Thinking, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, and Learning How to Learn, which were developed, piloted and taught in 32 sessions from Fall 2018–20 by MIT experts from outside of the program; and (b) an elective class last fall that introduced first-year students to the five threads and to four Ways of Thinking, i.e., Creative Thinking, Systems Thinking, Analytical Thinking, and Making. We learned from the emergency teaching pivot last spring and from remote teaching in fall, and now plan to launch another first-year class that will focus exclusively on Creative Thinking and Systems Thinking along with a semester-long challenge as well as introductory learning vignettes covering each Way of Thinking separately. In this paper we describe how the Ways of Thinking were and are being implemented, share key lessons we have learned, and describe our plans for further incorporation and assessment of the Ways of Thinking into the program.  \nADVANCES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION  \nThe NEET Ways of Thinking: Implementing them at MIT and Assessing their Efficacy  \nTHE MOTIVATION FOR THE NEW ENGINEERING EDUCATION TRANSFORMATION  \nPROGRAM INITIATIVE  \nInternational and national bodies concerned with education and with economics have recognized the need for participants in today’s workforce to possess a set of competencies for thriving in the 21st century. Appropriately, these competencies are often referred to as 21st century skills. Some of these skills include collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and learning on one’s own, among others [1], [2], [3], [4] . The need for students to acquire 21st century skills has been reflected in papers produced by the Organization for Economic Co-Development – OECD [3] and the US National Research Council – NRC [4] . More specifically in engineering higher education, ABET’s Student Outcomes criteria for accreditation of engineering education programs also include some of these skills, for example, collaboration, communication, and the ability to learn on one’s own [5] .  \nFormer MIT president Charles Vest who also served as president of the National Academy of Engineering has said that engineering science evolved through World War II and continued to move engineers away from practical engineering [6]. Researchers have claimed that undergraduate engineering curricula should equip alumni with the thinking skills required for facing current and future challenges, even in place of some content knowledge [7],[8]. For any higher education institution to be able to delive","cbCaidZ0obJMpAAU","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidZ0obJMpAAU","pdf",1750057,"English","# Abstract\n# The Motivation for the New Engineering Education Transformation\n# The New Engineering Education Transformation Program\n## Program Background and Launch","[{\"question\":\"What is the NEET initiative and what problem does it target?\",\"answer\":\"NEET is an MIT School of Engineering program launched in Fall 2016 to educate young engineers with cognitive and professional competencies needed for 21st-century societal challenges.\"},{\"question\":\"How do students structure participation in NEET?\",\"answer\":\"Students enter NEET in their sophomore year, join one of five interdisciplinary threads, and complete both their declared-major SB degree and a NEET Certificate within the normal four-year duration.\"},{\"question\":\"How were the Ways of Thinking incorporated into the curriculum so far?\",\"answer\":\"The paper describes two main approaches: standalone modules on four Ways of Thinking and an elective class that introduced first-year students to the threads and additional Ways of Thinking.\"}]","The NEET Ways of Thinking - Implementing them at MIT and Assessing their Efficacy | PDF",1792066460,48]