NEET Ways of Thinking
MIT's introduction to the New Engineering Education Transformation (NEET) program, aimed at first-year engineering students. The course introduces the NEET Ways of Thinking, a set of cognitive approaches for tackling complex, open-ended engineering challenges. Student teams work through challenge-based learning activities drawn from NEET's interdisciplinary program threads, practicing problem framing, systems thinking, and other methods valued by industry. Materials come from MIT OpenCourseWare and include the course's assignments and challenge-based exercises used to teach these problem-solving tools, which students can carry into later engineering coursework. The course is free to audit through MIT OpenCourseWare, with no certificate offered. It suits anyone curious about how MIT structures early engineering education around thinking skills rather than a single technical subject.