Topic
Synthetic Thinking Challenge (Choosing Your Major at MIT)
Instructor
Dr. Rea Lavi
Challenge/Case
Conceive and design a method or tool to help first-year students at MIT choose the right major.
Class Content
- Instructor solution for Preparation 4: Ill-Structured Problems
- Synthetic thinking thread overview
- Introduction of challenge
- Team activity: starting Application 10: Formulate a problem Statement (team assignment)
- Team presentations of Application 10: Formulate a problem Statement (team assignment)
- Team activity: Application 11 (Case Description Example, Case Description, Rea Lavi, “Creating Meaningful Analogies for Real-World Problems with the TCSA Method + ChatGPT.” Medium, Jul 04, 2023.)
- Team presentations of Application 12: Refine Your Ideas into Useful Solutions (team assignment)
- Application 13a: Describe Your Systems (in-class assignment)
Application 13: Describe Your Systems (team assignment)
