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Re: What to do, What to Do.......
Posted by Erik Justen.

Engineer on team #128, Cold Fusion, from Grandview Heights and The Ohio State University/American Electric Power.

Posted on 5/10/2000 9:01 PM MST


In Reply to: What to do, What to Do....... posted by Andrew Rudolph on 5/9/2000 5:29 PM MST:



Well..............

Our team does something very unique (as far as I know). We run a series of labs in the fall designed to teach the HS students basic engineering principles. Then we break them up into teams (along with an OSU student as a mentor) and have them build microcontrolled devices, based around the Basic Stamp II. This year we had a wide range of projects, from a change sorter to a people follower. The whole point was to introduce the students not only to engineering principles and practices (such as brainstorming and documentation), but to budgets and time lines as well. It is truly amazing how well this prepares students for the winter build period.

Clearly, this takes an awful lot of work from your engineering staff, especially to get things organized to the point where you can teach 4-5 quarters of electrical engineering in an hour and a half. We have a lot of this footwork done, but it's not really where I'd like to see things yet. So... we plan on redoing our labs and restructuring things some, but I think we have something most teams could pick up and run with.

If you have any questions, please let me know: I'd be more than willing to talk to you about it (this includes both students and engineers/coaches/teachers/college students).

Erik



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