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EE Summer Academy
EE Summer Academy
Monday, July 06, 2009, 08:00 AM to Friday 10, 05:00 PM
The Summer Electrical Engineering Academy at The University of Tulsa for Precollege Students educates students about careers in electrical engineering through hands-on design projects, seminars, industry professional interaction, and company tours.
The faculty of the Academy includes professors from the Electrical Engineering Department at TU and several high school teachers. The teachers receive training prior to the academy and use this training to help students with the academy’s activities. Teachers also receive support to implement the academy exercises, or similar ones, within their classrooms.
- Academy dates are July 6th – July 10th, 2009.
- Students entering grades 8 through 11 can apply.
- Teacher training will occur the week prior to the Academy.
- Commuter Academy: Students are dropped off between 8am and 8:30am, students are picked up about 4:30pm.
- The student application forms must be submitted by April 17th to be considered for the Academy. Forms received after that date will be put on a waiting list in the order they are received.
- The teacher application forms should be submitted by May 1st to be considered for the Academy.
- Sponsored by OSRHE, so there is no cost for the Academy.
- A closing program open to family and friends is held on the afternoon of the 10th.
Example Activities
Communication and Team Building
The purpose of this activity was to explore the various ways that groups of people communicate and work together to arrive at a common goal. The first part of the exercise involved an ice-breaking game where the students were each given game pieces, a subset of the game rules, and basic instructions, and then had to put together the highest value hand possible. The students had to exchange information and communicate with peers, decipher conflicting rules, and plan a strategy for success.
Electric Car
The students explore the concept of resistor-capacitor (RC) circuits with respect to the application of powering an electric car. Students work in teams to build a small K’Nex car for testing purposes. The students then studied how quickly the capacitor charged through a circuit and discharged the capacitor through their car. The students then competed to see whose car would travel the farthest on a single charge.
Digital Logic Activity
The students explore different aspects of logic circuits. Students construct a circuit to create logical inputs, and created another circuit to read logical outputs. They then explore the basic logic functions (AND, NOT, and OR) used in all computing, and the arithmetic of logical combinations, through examples and actually building circuits.
Professional Presentations
Each group creates a five-minute talk about one project or theme of the academy using PowerPoint. The students are given guidelines on good presentation practices and present their talks at the closing banquet with their families and friends as an audience.
Contact:
Peter LoPresti
918-631-3274