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Institutional Transplantation in Education- Cultural Transfusion to a New Institution
Vivek Sakhrani (presenting author)
Aikaterini BagiatiSanjay SarmaRichard de Neufville
Special thanks to Dara Fisher, Stella Kournelaki
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) & MIT-SUTD Collaboration
WEEF 2012 ForumOctober 15 - 18, 2012
Buenos Aires
Singapore University of Technology & Design (SUTD)
• New, engineering-oriented university in Singapore
• Inaugural cohort of 320 students– First classes on May 7,
2012
• Largest & most holistic transplantation venture of MIT to date
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Singapore University of Technology & Design (SUTD)SUTD envisions:•The best regional university for design and engineering education in South East Asia
•A culture of independence, bottoms-up innovation and and multi-disciplinary collaboration
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MIT – SUTD Collaboration
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Critical Building-Blocks / Pathways
Collaborative Curriculum Development
Students’ Culture Formation
Immersive New Faculty Development
“Institutional Transplantation” in Education• Definition:
“a process in which a host environment borrows an institution from another environment (the model) for the purposes of enhancing or improving the host environment.”
• Comparative Education (Phillips et al., 2009)
• Inherent Assumptions:–Successful model in donor environment–Selective grafting or replication is possible
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“Institutional Transplantation” in Education
An early warning (Sadler, 1900)
“…we cannot wander at pleasure among the educational systems of the world…and pick off a flower from one bush and some leaves from another…”
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Holistic educational transfer requires multiple pathways
Issue: Re-engineering Engineering Education
• Vision of the Engineer of 2020 – and beyond (NRC, 2004 ; NAE, 2005)
– Today’s engineering students, tomorrow’s leaders
• A global issue, central to the technological, economic and labor competitiveness of many nations
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Engineer of the future must be produced by educational institutions of the future
International Collaborations
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• The comparative advantage argument– Expertise, resource/environmental endowment,
niche markets
Degree of Structural Similarity
Degree ofIntellectual
Collaboration
Low High
High
LowStudy abroad
Joint degree programs
International Campus
Establishing new universities
collaboratively
Online
A Self-Preservation Strategy for MIT• Retain Global Relevance
– World’s most challenging and compelling problems are not nationally or geographically specific
• “Mens et Manus” = Mind & Hand– Balancing academic and practical impact for global
effectiveness
• Resources– Diversifying channels to support research and
educational innovation
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MIT – SUTD Collaboration
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Critical Building-Blocks / Pathways
Collaborative Curriculum Development
Students’ Culture Formation
Immersive New Faculty Development
Collaborative Curriculum Development
• Courses: project-based active learning• Structure: common first year “freshmore”• Dual masters and dual post-docs• Co-curricular emphasis
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Initial course development at MIT, taught at SUTD
MIT-SUTD Faculty Development Program
• Structure:
– Year-long– Small cohorts (6 to 8
professors)– One semester overlap– 70 professors over next 5 – 7
years– Intentionally designed
activities and programs delivered in bi-weekly seminars
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Goal: nurture the formation of a collective self-identity
• Bi-weekly Seminars:
– Orientation– Self-organized teams
& exercises– Pedagogy– Hands-on exercises– Academic Life…at MIT
and beyond– Reflection and
Evaluation
Students’ Culture Formation
• Best communicated within student body
• Interaction with older student cohorts
• Recruit MIT students as “surrogate upperclassmen”
• MISTI-Singapore Leadership Initiative
• Student governance emerging– 25+ student organizations
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Hacks.mit.edu
“Bicilivadora”Lima, PeruMIT D-Lab
Lessons so far…
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Collaborative Curriculum Development
Students’ Culture Formation
Immersive New Faculty Development
We need to evaluate and maintain ‘persistence’
‘Writing letters home…’ is hard
Classes have begun… but curriculum is very much a
work in progress
Attrition from leadership program
Staff and administrators ?
References• Bagiati, A., Sakhrani, V., Sarma, S., De Neufville, R. Approaching Institutional Transplantation
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