Curriculum Connections:

• Manufacturing / Mechanical Engineering: Designing and constructing prosthetics
• Biomedical Engineering: Application of anatomy to mechanical design
  

Students will be able to:

• Identify various applications of 3D printing in medicine
• Analyze the anatomy of a prosthetic arm, hand, and finger
• Design and build their own prosthetic finger
• Advance their TinkerCAD skills
• Understand drawing and dimensioning
• Apply client details to their own prosthetic design

Curriculum Connections

• Manufacturing Engineering: Designing and constructing products.

Students will be able to:

• Describe and explain the different types of manufacturing 
• Identify the various fields that utilize 3D printing 
• Use TinkerCad software to design their various products

Curriculum Connections: 

• Physics: Newton’s Laws, Fluid Flow
• Intro to Engineering: Functional Analysis, Open-Ended Design Problems

Students will be able to:

• Analyze real-world problems and use critical thinking skills in order to solve them
• Explore the variety of airplane structures with several paper airplane designs
• Describe the performance of a paper airplane and understand what led to a certain behavior
• Design and build a paper airplane
• Collect and analyze data
• Explain the engineering process as it pertains to their design

Curriculum Connections: 

• Computer Science

Students will be able to:

• Engage in the Engineering Design Process
• Analyze current real-world problems and use criteria to determine the best way to solve these problems
• Learn how apps are created and design one of their own
• Reflect on this lesson and what they have learned

Curriculum Connections: 

• Aligns with biology and computer science curriculums in high schools.
• Appropriate for:
  • Intro Biology class
  • Intro computer science class 
  • AP/IB/upper-level biology class
  • AP/IB/upper-level computer science class
  • Upper-level engineering/tech-ed class

Students will be able to:

• Engage in the engineering design and iterative process
• Analyze complex real-world problems through a biological lens
• Follow specific criteria in order to problem solve by making informed and specific search queries 
• Discover and understand the importance of bioinformatics and sequencing to diagnose and treat diseases

Curriculum Connections: 

• Physics: Newton’s Laws 
• Environmental Science: Human Population; Biodiversity 
• Geometry: Property of shapes; polyhedra 
• Introduction to Engineering: Structural Analysis, Open Ended Design Problems

Students will be able to:

• Engage in the Engineering Design Process
• Analyze complex real-world problems following specific criteria in order to problem solve. 
• Discover and understand the variety of ways bridges can be designed as well as used in the present day
• Creatively design a bridge using materials at home
• Reflect and explain their thinking through videos

Curriculum Connections: 

• Cybersecurity: the state of being protected against the criminal or unauthorized use of electronic data, or the measures taken to achieve this
• Software Engineering: the systematic application of engineering approaches to the development of software
• Computer Engineering: a branch of engineering that integrates several fields of computer science and electronic engineering required to develop computer hardware and software

Students will be able to: 

• Understand the importance of cybersecurity
• Analyze different types of cyber attacks
• Describe how to identify phishing attacks
• Practice using different methods of encryption

Curriculum Connections: 

• Mechanical Engineering: using math, science, and engineering concepts to protect the design a vehicle that moves efficiently with an electric motor.

Students will be able to: 

• Analyze real-world problems and use critical thinking skills in order to solve them
• Explore developments in electric vehicle technology and batteries.
• Design and build an electric vehicle using material provided.
• Explain the engineering process as it pertains to their design and reflect on opportunities to improve it.

Curriculum Connections: 

• Physics: Ohm’s Law and Circuit Analysis
• Computer Science: Iterative Processes, C Programming Language, Coding Design Process

Students will be able to: 

• Learn more about electrical engineering and computer science with a hands-on experience
• Use and Identify several components in the Arduino system, including LEDs, potentiometers, and resistors.
• Have a basic understanding of how the Arduino system works.
• Use the C coding language with the Arduino computer application.
• Create their own Arduino-based projects

Curriculum Connections: 

• The Engineering Process
• Entrepreneurship in Engineering
• Public Speaking

Students will be able to:

• Analyze real-world problems and use critical thinking skills in order to solve them
• Work in teams to develop a solution
• Use public speaking skills to give a small presentation in front of an audience
• Describe to an audience how each of their individual machines or inventions work
• Design and build a scale model
• Explain the engineering process as it pertains to their design
• Have an introductory understanding of engineering economics

Curriculum Connections: 

• Physics: 2D-Motion; Projectile Motion
• Freshman Computing: Predictive Analysis
• Statistics: Plotting Trendlines; Modelling

Students will be able to:

• Define machine learning and provide real world applications for where it is used.
• Describe the engineering design process and apply it to the design and construction of a catapult.
• Develop a mathematical model that describes the performance of the catapult.
• Create an algorithm based on the performance analysis of the catapult.

Curriculum Connections: 

• Algebra 2/ Precalculus: Combinatorics; Linear Algebra 
• Intro to Computer Science: Primitive Types; Iterations 
• Advanced Mathematics: Graph Theory; Combinatorics
• Environmental: Pandemics
• AP Computer Science: Algorithms

Students will be able to: 

• Solve the Traveling Salesman Problem
• Learn about a distance matrix
• Learn how to solve computer science-related problems
• Program a virtual drone of your own

Curriculum Connections: 

• Biomedical Engineering
• Physics and math 
  • Energy of sunlight

Students will be able to: 

• Discover the role of light within the medical field. 
• Learn the different characteristics of sunlight. 
• Work through the Engineering Process.
• Create and design a medical treatment using technology.
• Use mathematical formulas in order to analyze the effectiveness of the design solution.

Curriculum Connections:

• Computer Science: Block Programming, Python, Coding Design Process
• Intro to Engineering: Engineering Design Process

Students will be able to: 

• Learn more about electrical engineering and computer science with a hands-on experience
• Understand the basics of robotics systems
• Use the Coding Design Process to write code and improve it upon analysis
• Critically think in order to create their own set of solutions to their puzzles.

Curriculum Connections: 

• Environmental Engineering: using math, science, and engineering concepts to protect the living organisms on Earth

Students will be able to: 

• Analyze real-world problems and use critical thinking skills in order to solve them
• Explore renewable energy
• Design and build a solar-powered turbine
• Collect and analyze data 
• Explain the engineering process as it pertains to their design

Curriculum Connections: 

• Acoustic Engineering: Design, analysis and control of sound
• Sound Engineering: Design and manage sound levels and outputs. Takes care of sound equipment for live recording

Students will be able to: 

• Identify basic terms related to sound 
• Understand the effects of noise pollution
• Design a sound barrier to reduce levels of noise pollution 
• Learn about career opportunities related to sound
• Learn about how to record data related to sound

Curriculum Connections: 

• Industrial Engineering: optimization of complex processes and systems
• Manufacturing Engineering: the design of and operation of systems that produce high quality products at an efficient rate

Students will be able to: 

• Analyze different methods involved in distribution and the pros and cons of each
• Describe the importance of supply chain in Engineering
• Design and build their own distribution routes for the vaccine
• Explain the engineering process as it pertains to their design

Curriculum Connections: 

• Environmental Engineering: using math, science, and engineering concepts to protect the living organisms on Earth
• Physics: comparing the supply and demand of electrical energy to power various homes and communities.

Students will be able to: 

• Analyze real-world problems (like the Texas blackout of Winter, 2021) and use critical thinking skills in order to solve them
• Explore the power grid and understand the factors that affect its stability
• See how renewable energy resources contribute differently/intermittently to the power grid compared to traditional fossil and nuclear resources.

Curriculum Connections: 

• Environmental Science: Water Issues and Water Pollution
• Earth Science: The Water Cycle

Students will be able to: 

• Describe and explain actions that contribute to your water footprint

• Mimic a water clarification process
• Design and create a water filtration system
• Identify and explain various steps involved in the process of water treatment
• Analyze a water sample before and after it undergoes a water filtration process
• Use the iterative process to optimize a design

Curriculum Connections: 

• Environmental Engineering: using math, science, and engineering concepts to protect the living organisms on Earth.

Students will be able to:

• Analyze real-world problems and use critical thinking skills in order to solve them
• Describe renewable energy
• Design and build wind turbine blade prototypes
• Collect and analyze data 
• Explain the engineering process as it pertains to their design