A Reading of the New Undergraduate Curriculum Design of EECS at MIT——Taking EECS in MIT as an Example

The present authors introduce the new courses included in the new curriculum of the Depart-ment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science(EECS) in Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT),explain the revised parts of the curriculum,and elaborate on the basic idea and aim of the revision,especially on the roles and features of the two new introductory courses.The characteristics of three specialties in the Department of EECS and the course-selection schemes of seven research fields are presented,the difference between higher education in China and that in MIT is stated,and the enlightenment of the curricu-lum is discussed.