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In MIT class 2.702 (Systems Engineering and Naval Ship Design), naval officers and other graduate students get hands-on experience in project management skills that will be central to their future careers. The class is part of the Course 2N program, which educates active duty officers in the U.S. Navy, U.S Coast Guard, and foreign navies.

An MIT committee released report on remote teaching best practices that can be used in on-campus education. The committee was formed to expand on the work of Task Force 2021 and Beyond.

As an MSRP-Bio student this past summer in the MIT lab of Matt Vander Heiden, Alejandra Rosario worked to understand cancer metabolism. MSRP-Bio is a summer program intended to introduce non-MIT undergraduates to a research career.

High school teachers Esmeralda Hernandez and Liz Raine immersed themselves in the 10th annual Lincoln Laboratory Radar Introduction for Student Engineers (LLRISE). participated in Lincoln Laboratory two-week radar educational program.

The 2022 robot competition for MIT mechanical engineering class 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing I) celebrated its founder, the late beloved Professor Woodie Flowers.

The MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium has launched a year-long Climate & Sustainability Scholars Program, which allows undergraduate students to lead climate and sustainability research projects.

The Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program, in partnership with the Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, recently relaunched an Independent Activities Period course on Engineering Design & Rapid Prototyping (D-PRO).

The Materials Initiative for Comprehensive Research Opportunity program is an online research internship from the MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering with mentorship from the MITx Digital Learning Lab, providing opportunities to undergraduates who are considering graduate school or a research career.

Designed to train students to practice responsible technology development, the Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC) publishes a collection of original pedagogical materials developed for instructional use on MIT OpenCourseWare.

The 2022 MIT Festival of Learning invited faculty across the institute to share the best practices they’ve developed from online learning, including tools and techniques for instruction and inclusive instruction practices.