Pre-College Outreach in Electrical Engineering

[800423]能源系统与控制中心（CESAC）的主要活动是建立一个卓越的研究中心，以支持电力系统自动化和控制应用。该中心的第二项活动包括一个夏季拓展计划，让高中生和大专学生接触专家系统（ES）和动力系统（PS）的研究活动。在中心的设施，为期五周的外展计划为学生提供了学习电气工程基础知识的机会，并让他们参与中心赞助的研究活动。该项目使该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这个项目。其中一些学生成绩优异，平均成绩非常高，有动力和潜力在大学取得成功。大多数被选中的学生在学术能力测试（SAT）中取得了1300分以上的成绩，并进入了优秀的大学。这证明了从该项目中获得的学习经验的成功和影响。为了延续这一趋势，我们正在为非裔美国学生、其他少数民族和妇女提出一个为期多年的大学预科教育项目。为确保少数族裔将来能参与科学，我们计划提高他们对工程专业的兴趣，因为工程专业在21世纪仍具吸引力。课程内容包括：电气工程基础，涵盖所有电气工程领域（通信、控制、信号处理、电力系统、材料科学和固态电子学、微波和天线）的各种研究项目主题，口头和书面沟通技巧，以及工程专业的领导力培训和主题。外展计划将在夏季进行，为期五周，包括学生，教师和行业的互动。该计划将包括代表我们各种资助的赞助机构作为主题演讲者和高中生导师。参与者还将参与与其他传统黑人学院和大学（HBCU）和电力学校工程研究联盟（PSERC）学校的交流项目。在学年期间，该项目将允许学生与霍华德大学的研究教授接触，参加由霍华德大学选定学校的教师主办的科学博览会。该计划还将包括选定的高中教师，他们将参与技术意识，解决问题和磨练他们的设计技能。我们在非裔美国学生上大学前的经验可以作为我们提高他们的GPA和SAT分数的成功案例的基准，提供积极的有利环境，从而增加他们进入工程专业的机会，并且可以作为其他学校的原型来使用，以取得类似的成功

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.***