Integrating Critical Thinking into the NEET Project-Centric Threads

Principal Investigator
Prof. Jennifer Light, Program in Science, Technology, and Society; Prof. Daniel Frey, Mechanical Engineering
Fund: d'Arbeloff Fund
Funding Period: AY2020
Department/Lab/Center: Science, Technology, and Society
Educational Initiative: NEET

Implicit across the four NEET threads is the fundamental issue of problem definition. That is, addressing societal needs requires defining a problem or problems to be solved. What if the very definition of the problem itself forestalls solutions because it fails to take social, cutural, political or economic factors into account? This grant aims to teach students critical thinking about problem definition through historical case studies.