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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. It is one of the institutes of technology in the United States for the advancement of science and engineering. William Barton Rogers founded MIT to accelerate American industrialization through scientific knowledge. Initially funded by a federal land grant, the institute adopted a German polytechnic model emphasizing laboratory instruction in applied science and engineering, and moved from Boston's Back Bay to its current campus in Cambridge in 1916. Early growth came through research contracts with private industry, though the institute remained financially constrain…

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The Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) is the engineering school of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. It offers degrees in engineering and applied sciences to graduate students admitted directly to SEAS, and to undergraduates admitted first to Harvard College. Previously the Lawrence Scientific School and then the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the school assumed its current structure in 2007. The school was renamed after John Paulson in June 2015 following his US$400 million gift. SEAS is housed in Harvard's Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) in the Allston neighborhood of Boston directly across the Charles Rive…

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Integrating Literature and Problem-Based Learning in a First-Year Engineering Academy

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Fifty Years on: A Retrospective on the World's First Problem-based Learning Programme at McMaster University Medical School

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Surgical Training (INVEST): the first Canadian curriculum for innovation and entrepreneurship for surgical trainees.. Background The Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Surgical Training (INVEST) curriculum was developed to introduce surgical residents to basic concepts of innovation and entrepreneurship. The INVEST curriculum involves a series of 4 academic sessions teaching pillars of surgical innovation and entrepreneurship: identifying needs, value assessment, exploring feasibility, and telling a story. We prospectively examined participant perceptions before and after the INVEST curriculum. Methods This longitudinal survey study included consecutive su…

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A First Attempt at Introducing Problem-Based Learning in an Engineering Dynamics Course

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