The EECS International program under the direction of the EECS International Group, whose members are listed right, aims at promoting international engagement for EECS students and faculty.
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Increase the level of international engagement for students and faculty and to become as pervasive as UROPs for undergraduates.
- Flexibility in curriculum
- Summer internships encouraged
- Integrate students' international experience with their on-campus education (such as VI-A International, for example).
- Recognize and support student-initiated international programs (such as AITI, teaching abroad).
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Share curriculum and teaching methods through Global Education
- Engage several premier foreign universities to participate.
- Invite young faculty from participating universities abroad to come to MIT EECS to learn teaching methods.
- Promote this methodology through subsequent visits by MIT graduate students and faculty, and/or UROP students who worked with foreign faculty to home (foreign) university.
- Coordinate with EECS affiliated labs to host visiting faculty.
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Maintain pre-eminence with educational mission at the forefront:
- Synergy between teaching and research
- No compromise on excellence
- Partner with other international programs across MIT, incluing MISTI.
