Materials Camp Student Support 2003

该提案旨在为参加2003年夏季材料夏令营计划的高中生提供参与者支持。这些训练营类似于NSF工程部在2002年资助的材料训练营计划。该计划为美国各地的高中生提供材料科学和技术方面的实践学习。2003年计划举办两个材料营项目，每个项目有30名学生。这两个项目将举办如下：材料营西部，华盛顿大学，西雅图，华盛顿州，2003年7月7日至13日。材料营东部，材料公园，俄亥俄州，2003年8月11日至17日。学生通过设置实验室实验和团队项目来体验学习，在该项目中，他们探索与工程系统相关的材料中的结构-性能-加工-应用关系。日常材料系统是该课程的基础，为更高级的应用奠定基础。专业社会志愿者与五名学生团队合作，确保真正的学习和动力。夏令营结束时，学生们向专业观众做项目演示。这个项目的预期结果是60名学生，他们在工程和工程应用方面更有知识，在材料领域有特殊的经验。我们对以前的夏令营的评价是非常积极的，可以说服学生考虑并进入大学攻读工程学。因此，我们的期望是，我们将能够将学生集中在工程学的优势上，从而增加工程学的招生人数，不仅是在参加的学生中，而且在他们的同龄人中也是如此。这项提议的智力价值与这些学生将学到的知识有关。参加夏令营的学生一般都是高中生。他们中的大多数人最初表示他们对科学或工程不感兴趣，而是对从艺术到社会科学再到医学的其他领域感兴趣。通过夏令营集中实践的方式，我们的经验表明，夏令营的知识内容让他们感到兴奋，从而拓宽了他们对职业和未来研究的思考。该计划的更广泛影响使这些聪明的学生对工程职业的潜力有了具体的了解，为科学和工程学习提供了潜在的新一批学生，从而增加了对科学和工程感兴趣的美国学生池。它还有助于拓宽学生对材料领域的理解，并展示材料对工程和科学的中心地位。

This proposal is to provide for participant support for high school students attending theMaterials Camp program during summer 2003. These camps are similar to the MaterialsCamp program funded in 2002 by NSF Engineering Division. The program provideshands-on learning in materials science and technology for high school students fromacross the U.S. In 2003 two Materials Camp programs are planned, each for 30 students.The two programs are to be held as follows:Materials Camp West, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, July 7 - 13, 2003Materials Camp East, Materials Park, OH, August 11 - 17, 2003The curriculum of the camps includes engineering applications of metals, ceramics,polymers, composites and biomaterials. Students experience learning using both setlaboratory experiments and a team project in which they explore structure-property-processing-applications relationships in materials as related to engineering systems.Everyday materials systems are the foundation of the program, building to moreadvanced applications. Professional society volunteers work with each team of fivestudents to ensure real learning and motivation. The camp concludes with projectpresentations by the students to a professional audience.The expected outcome of this project are a set of 60 students who are moreknowledgeable of engineering and engineering applications, with specific experience inthe area of materials. Our evaluation of previous camps is very positive in convincingstudents to consider and enroll in engineering in college. Thus our expectation is that wewill be able to focus students on the advantages of engineering studies and thus increaseengineering enrollments, not just among the students who attend but among their peers aswell.The intellectual merit of this proposal relates to the knowledge that these student willlearn. The students who attend the camp are generally the better students in a highschool. Most of them initially indicate that they are not interested in science orengineering, but rather other areas from art to social science to medicine. Using thefocused, hands-on approach of the camp program, our experience shows that theintellectual content of the camp excites them, thus broadening their thinking as to a careerand future study.The broader impact of the program provides these bright students with specificunderstanding of the potential of careers in engineering, provides a potential new set ofstudents for science and enginering study, thus increasing the pool of U.S. studentsinterested in science and engineering. It also serves to broaden student understanding ofthe field of materials, and demonstrates the centrality of materials to engineering andscience.