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SP.248 | Fall 2025 | Undergraduate

# The NEET Experience

### Challenge 1 — Algorithmic Thinking in Autonomous Machines: Formulate a Minibot Search Strategy for Balls on a Grid

Application 1 (PDF)

Application 2 (PDF)

Instructor Guide (PDF)

Student Guide (PDF)

### Challenge 2 — Systems Thinking in Living Machines: Design a Microfluidic Device for a Drug Delivery Experiment

Application 3: Design a Microfluidic Device for a Drug Delivery Experiment (PDF)

Application 3 Solution (PDF)

Application 4: Design a Microfluidic Device for a Drug Delivery Experiment (PDF)

Application 4 Solution (PDF)

### Challenge 3 — Systems Thinking in Climate and Sustainability Systems: Improve the Design of a Renewable Energy System

Systems Thinking in Climate & Sustainability Systems: 22.03 Final Review (PDF)

Application 5: Describe a Renewable Energy System (PDF)

Application 6: Improve the Design of a Renewable Energy System (PDF)

### Challenge 4 — Creative Thinking in Digital Cities: Generate Ideas to Make Cambridge More Cycle-Friendly

Application 7: Formulate Your Problem Statement (PDF)

Application 8a1: Generate Implicit Assumptions (PDF)

Application 8a2: Generate Analogies (PDF)

Application 8b1: Generate Ideas from Implicit Assumptions (PDF)

Application 8b2: Generate Ideas from Analogies (PDF)

Application 9: Refine Your Ideas (PDF)

### Challenge 5 — Synthetic Thinking: Design a Method or Tool for Choosing Your Major

Application 10: Problem Case, Problem Statement, and Usefulness Criteria (PDF)(DOCX)

Application 11a1: Generate Implicit Assumptions (PDF)

Application 11a2: Generate Analogies (PDF)

Application 11b1: Generate Ideas from Implicit Assumptions (PDF)

Application 11b2: Generate Ideas from Analogies (PDF)

Application 12: Refine Your Ideas (PDF)

### Challenge 6 — Making: Mold and Cast a Figurine

Application 13: Mold and Cast a Wooden Figurine (PDF)(DOCX)

Making Challenge Tutorial Video: Mold and Cast from OpenCourseWare (YouTube video)

Making Challenge Tutorial Video: Plaster Mixing from OpenCourseWare (YouTube video)

#### Product Safety Data Sheets

- Hydrocal® White Gypsum Cement(PDF)
- Sargent ART Non-Hardening Modeling Clay
- Alja-Safe Crystalline Silica-Free Alginate (PDF)

## Course Info

### Instructors

- Dr. Rea Lavi
- Dr. Cong Cong
- Dr. Greg Long
- Dr. Nathan Melenbrink
- Dr. Mehdi Salek

### Departments

- Special Programs

### As Taught In

Fall 2025

### Level

Undergraduate

### Topics

- Energy
  - Climate
- Engineering
  - Biological Engineering
  - Civil Engineering
  - Electrical Engineering
  - Systems Engineering

### Learning Resource Types

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