The MIT-China Educational Technology Initiative (CETI) is MISTI-China's student-administered educational technology and project management training program. CETI initiates and manages academic and cultural exchanges between American and Chinese students
through hands-on applications of science and technology.
Each summer since 1996, CETI has sent
between 15 and 21 MIT students to high schools and universities in cities and towns across mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Working in
teams of three, CETI participants have introduced curriculums on web
design, programming, robotics, electrical engineering, sustainable development, civil engineering,
biology, aerospace engineering and more.
CETI's original objective in 1997 was to help connect a few Chinese high schools to the Internet
and introduce basic web design techniques (See publication on original CETI projects). Since then, the swift global progress of Internet
technologies has enabled CETI to grow above and beyond its original
mission. In 2002 CETI sent a special development team to four rural towns in
China to reach out to students who have had less exposure to educational technologies and
virtually no previous opportunity for cultural exchanges. In addition to working with
high schools in China, CETI is now also collaborating with MIT OpenCourseWare and MIT
iLabs with projects that span Greater China, introducing MIT educational technologies and course content at the following universities: Dalian University of
Technology, Kunming University of Science & Technology, Qinghai University, Tsinghua University,
Sichuan University, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Yunnan University, Zhejiang University, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Fuzhou University, Yulin University (Shaanxi), the Institute of Vocational Engineering (Hong Kong), and YuanZe University (Taiwan). And since 2005 CETI has introduced MIT D-Labs' activities with innovative applications in Qinghai Province.
See CETI News section for articles on these CETI educational technology projects and Past Participants section for CETI team reports.
CETI is built upon the foundation of relationships that we have formed with partner
schools and universities over the past 17 years. At the same time, CETI strives to identify new and exciting
educational and cultural opportunities throughout Greater China.
Current Sponsors:
Dr. Ge Yao Chu
Past Sponsors & Supporters:
The Freeman Foundation
Mr. Raymond Kwok |