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: Received: 11 June 2019 / Approved: 13 June 2019 / Online: 13 June 2019 (07:28:00 CEST)
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Tyagi, P.; Newman, C. Introducing High School Students to Engineering Fundamentals by Four Weeks Engineering Innovation Summer Program. Preprints2019, 2019060111 (doi: 10.20944/preprints201906.0111.v1).
Tyagi, P.; Newman, C. Introducing High School Students to Engineering Fundamentals by Four Weeks Engineering Innovation Summer Program. Preprints 2019, 2019060111 (doi: 10.20944/preprints201906.0111.v1).
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Tyagi, P.; Newman, C. Introducing High School Students to Engineering Fundamentals by Four Weeks Engineering Innovation Summer Program. Preprints2019, 2019060111 (doi: 10.20944/preprints201906.0111.v1).
Tyagi, P.; Newman, C. Introducing High School Students to Engineering Fundamentals by Four Weeks Engineering Innovation Summer Program. Preprints 2019, 2019060111 (doi: 10.20944/preprints201906.0111.v1).
Abstract
Preparing high school students for engineering disciplines is crucial for sustainable scientific and technological developments in the USA. This paper discusses a pre-college program, which not only exposes students to various engineering disciplines but also enables them to consider engineering as the profession. The four-week long “Engineering Innovation (EI)” course is offered every year to high school students by the center of outreach, Johns Hopkins University. EI program is designed to develop problem-solving skills through extensive hands-on engineering experiments. A team consisting of an instructor, generally a PhD in Engineering, and a teaching fellow, generally a high school science teacher, closely work with students to pedagogically inculcate basics of core engineering disciplines such as civil, mechanical, electrical, materials, and chemical engineering. EI values independent problem-solving skills and simultaneously promote the team spirit among students. A number of crucial engineering aspects such as professional ethics, communications, technical writing, and understanding of common engineering principles are inculcated among high school students via well-designed individual and group activities. This paper discusses the model of EI program and its impact on students learning and their preparation for the engineering career.
Subject Areas
education; University of the District of Columbia; engineering education; summer program
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Pawan Tyagi
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