(From Boston.com) CAMBRIDGE - The students practice networking and hone “elevator
pitches,’’ entrepreneurial ideas summarized in under a minute. They don
blindfolds for team-building activities. Failure is met with candid
critiques about their leadership styles.
This isn’t business school. It’s a
new engineering class at one of the premier engineering universities in
the world, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
MIT
created the unusual undergraduate program in response to industry
pressures to produce engineers who are as skilled at communicating
face-to-face as they are at writing complicated computer codes on their
own. Business leaders complain that many of today’s engineering
graduates, trained as abstract thinkers, have too little grounding in
the actual practice of working with others to deliver innovative
products amid time and budget constraints.
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