Sweet Briar College Engineering Design Course

A residential weeklong college course (one college credit) for female rising high school juniors and seniors started on July 20, 2014.   The course was built around several hands-on, team based engineering design projects.  Use the contact information below to find out the dates for future courses. They teach students all the necessary skills to pull off engaging projects- no experience necessary!  Students work with expert engineering faculty members and Sweet Briar engineering majors.  The planned projects in this course:  design and build a robotic musical instrument, design, build, and test your own water filtration system, program a robotic door that verifies your identity and opens only for you, and build an automatically-refilling water bowl for a dog.  Students learn about brainstorming and creativity in engineering design, circuits basics, building prototypes using machine shop tools and 3D computer modeling using Autodesk Inventor, as well as Arduino programming basics. A tour of an engineering company and the opportunity to interact with successful women engineers from area companies, as well as SBC engineering graduates is part of the week.  There will also be time at the pool and a picnic at the lake and students will stay in college dorms with student mentors.
Contact: Dr. Hank Yochum, Director of Engineering, 434-381-6357
Email: hyochum@sbc.edu
Web site: http://sbc.edu/engineering/explore-engineering-high-school-women