Pre-College Outreach in Electrical Engineering

9800423Momoha能源系统和控制中心（CESAC）的主要活动是发展一个支持电力系统自动化和控制应用的卓越研究中心。该中心的次要活动包括一个夏季外展计划，让高中生和大专生接触专家系统（ES）和电力系统（PS）的研究活动。 在该中心的设施为期五周的推广计划为学生提供了参与学习电气工程基础知识的机会，并让他们参与该中心赞助的研究活动。 该项目使中心有机会让高中生参与研究和工程教育。多年来，我们已经吸引了50多名少数民族高中生参加该项目。 这些学生中有几个是高成就者，平均成绩非常高，有在大学一级取得成功的动力和潜力。 大多数被选中的学生在学术能力测试（SAT）中得分超过1300分，并已进入优秀大学。 这是从该计划获得的学习经验的成功和影响的证明。 为了延续这一趋势，我们正在为大学前的非洲裔美国学生、其他少数民族和妇女提出一项多年教育计划。 为确保少数族裔将来能参与科学研究，我们计划提高他们对工程专业的兴趣，因为这一专业在世纪仍将具有吸引力。 方案内容包括：电气工程基础，各种研究项目的主题跨越所有电气工程频谱（通信，控制，信号处理，电力系统，材料科学和固态电子，微波和天线），口头和书面沟通技巧，以及领导力培训和工程专业的主题。外联计划将在夏季进行五周，包括学生的互动，教师和工业。 该计划将涉及赞助机构代表我们的各种赠款作为主旨发言人和高中生导师。 参与者还将参与与其他历史黑人学院和大学（HBCU）和电力学校工程研究联盟（PSRC）学校的交流计划。 在学年期间，该计划将允许学生与霍华德大学的研究教授接触，参加由霍华德大学教师在选定的学校举办的科学博览会。 该计划还将包括选定的高中教师谁将参与技术意识，解决问题和锐化他们的设计技能。我们的经验与大学预科非洲裔美国学生可以对我们的成功故事，提高他们的GPA和SAT成绩基准标记，提供积极的有利环境，从而增加他们进入工程专业的机会，并可供其他学校使用取得类似的成功 **

9800423MomohA major activity of the Center for Energy Systems and Control (CESAC) is the development of a research center of excellence in support of power systems automation and control applications.A secondary activity of the Center includes a summer outreach program to expose high school students and junior college students to research activities in expert systems (ES) and power systems (PS). A five-week outreach program at the Center's facility provides the opportunity for students to engage in learning electrical engineering fundamentals and involve them in the Center's sponsored research activities. The project gave the Center the opportunity to involve high school students in research and engineering education.Over the years, we have attracted more than 50 minority high school students to the program. Several of these students are high achievers with very high grade-point-averages and the motivation and potential to succeed at the university level. A majority of the students selected scored above 1300 on the scholastic aptitude test (SAT) and have since enrolled in outstanding universities. This is a demonstration of the success and impact of the learning experience gained from the program. To continue this trend, we are proposing a multi-year educational program for pre-college African American students, other minorities and women. To ensure future participation of minorities in science, we plan to increase interest in the engineering profession which will remain attractive in the 21' century. The program contents include: electrical engineering fundamentals, a variety of research project topics spanning all of electrical engineering spectrum (communications, control, signal processing, power systems, materials science and solid state electronics, microwave and antenna), oral and written communication skills, and leadership training and topics on the engineering profession.The outreach program will be done during the summer for five weeks to include interaction of students, faculty and industry. The program will involve sponsoring agencies representative of our various grants as keynote speakers and high school students mentors. The participants will also be involved in exchange programs with other Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and Power Schools Engineering Research Coalition (PSERC) schools. During the school year, the program will allow students to be engaged with research professors at Howard University, participate in science fairs hosted by Howard University faculty in selected schools. The program will also include selected high school teachers who will be involved in technology awareness, problem solving and sharpening of their design skills.Our experience with pre-college African American students could be bench marked against our success story of improving both their GPA and SAT scores, providing positive enabling environment and thus enhancing their chances of enrolling in engineering and could be prototyped for usage by other schools to achieve similar success.***