Engineering Council for Undergraduate Education (E-CUE)

To identify, develop, disseminate, and implement best practices in curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment in engineering education. To act as a forum for sharing ideas, and for coordinating, facilitating, fostering, and overseeing innovations and new curricula in engineering education across the School and with other units within and outside MIT. Objectives
Founded with the thematic focus of Rethinking Undergraduate Engineering Education, some near term objectives are to :

(*) Support the development and implementation of innovative pedagogy and assessment methods and tools across the School. Develop more uniform and effective assessments of teaching and mentoring in the School.

(*) Reexamine the role of the School in the freshman year as well as the integration of General Institute Requirements with the engineering curricula.

(*) Support the development of interdisciplinary/common courses, instructional modules, and programs that enhance collaboration and synergy within the School.

(*) Generate a comprehensive view of undergraduate engineering education including department-level innovations and co-curriculum activities, such as UROP and UPOP, in meeting broad educational objectives and career needs.

(*) Provide an effective platform for interactions and collaborations with other units within and outside MIT to achieve shared educational objectives.

Through E-CUE, the School joined with Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) staff in managing the development of a range of exciting CMI-funded engineering education projects including a Technopreneurship Academy, Robotworld, online material for connecting lecture and laboratory content, and a detailed comparison of learning under the MIT and University of Cambridge engineering education systems. E-CUE will continue to work with CMI in coordinating these efforts with the University of Cambridge Engineering Department. To meet program demand for a streamlined format for program and subject assessment, the School's education expert is in the process of creating on-line assessment tools that are specific to engineering education programs and subjects.