SP.248 | Fall 2025 | Undergraduate

The NEET Experience

Course Description

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 …
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.
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Promotional flyer for MIT course SP.248, 'The NEET Experience,' a First-Year Discovery Class taught by four faculty members in autonomous machines, climate sustainability, digital cities, and living machines. The image shows students and an autonomous wheeled robot, illustrating the hands-on, interdisciplinary nature of the course.
SP.248 gives first-year students an opportunity to explore various interdisciplinary domains in autonomous machines, climate and sustainability systems, digital cities, and living machines, in the New Engineering Education Transformation (NEET) program. (Image courtesy of MIT NEET)