Friday, March 11, 2011

Creating a High School Engineering Program

My oldest has just over 3 years left of high school.  Now that we've got a FIRST Robotics team going, he'll have lots of exposure to engineering (& other) topics. I'd like to give him month long unit studies of different topics that will give the theory or more formal approach to some of these topics so he gets more from the program than just the experiential.

 Topics:
  • Drafting
  • CAD
  • Prototyping (materials/form/projects0
  • Electrical
  • Motors/gears/drive trains
Sample syllabii or programs:

Infinity Project:

The Infinity Project is a national award winning middle school, high school, and early college engineering curricula. This math- and science-based engineering and technology education initiative helps educators deliver a maximum of engineering exposure with a minimum of training, expense and time. Created to help students see the real value of math and science and its varied applications to high tech engineering - The Infinity Project is working with schools all across the country to bring the best of engineering to their students.

-- set up for schools and requires a 5-day 35 hour training program for teacher of course -- probably could run it through Wake Robotics but feels a bit limiting and expensive

Engineering the Future
Here's a sample syllabus (Word doc) of a year long syllabus using various projects.
This looks really great!

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