Young Scholars Program ("The Coastal Erosion Project")

McNeese州立大学将为20名10-12年级的学生启动为期三周的青年学者工程项目；该项目每年将在第二批20名学生中重复进行。该项目将于6月和7月在麦克尼斯州立大学和密西西比州维克斯堡的美国陆军工程水道实验站进行。在维克斯堡，为期三天的海岸工程研讨会将向学生介绍海岸工程的理论和实践。在McNeese，研究将包括实地工作、物理建模和课堂教学，实地工作将在墨西哥湾沿岸的两个海滩进行，学生将在那里调查和测量海滩剖面。在校园里，学生们将在一个大型波浪池中设计、建造和测试海岸防护系统模型。物理实验课程将强化速度和加速度、物质密度和波的行为的概念。课堂教学内容包括海岸工程、海岸地质学、计算机应用、工程伦理、职业咨询和技术写作。

McNeese State University will initiate a three-week, residential Young Scholars project in Engineering for 20 students entering grades 10-12; the project will be repeated each year for a second set of 20 students. The program will take place in June and July at McNeese State University and at the U.S. Army Engineer Waterway Experiment Station in Vicksburg, Mississippi. At Vicksburg, a three-day coastal engineering workshop will introduce students to the theory and practice of coastal engineering. At McNeese, studies will consist of field work, physical modeling and classroom instruction with field work taking place at two beaches on the Gulf Coast, where students will survey and measure beach profiles. On campus, students will design, build and test models of coastal protection systems in a large wave tank. A physics laboratory course will reinforce concepts of velocity and acceleration, densities of materials and behavior of waves. Classroom instruction will be given in coastal engineering, coastal geology, computer applications, ethics of engineering, career counseling and technical writing.