Engineering for Kids

俄勒冈州科学与工业博物馆(OMSI)是一个进步的科学和技术中心。它对科学教育的哲学是让它变得诱人、令人愉快和鼓舞人心。它通过“亲身实践”、互动展品和项目来实现这一点，旨在提供一个无威胁的学习环境，因此我们得到了全国的认可。OMSI认识到帮助公众理解和适应应用科学的进步和方法的重要国家需要。它建议设计和建造一个大型展览，促进使用工程原理解决问题。展览将提出问题，提供解决方案的基本信息，并提供各种工具和建筑材料供参观者选择。然后，参观者设计一个或几个可能的解决方案，并构建一个原型，在三个大型测试实验室中的一个进行测试。涉及的工程领域包括航空、机械和民用。我们的参观者将带着对工程技术的完成方式以及解决方案如何影响他们的生活的更多赞赏离开展览。OMSI要求国家科学基金会提供577,324美元，波特兰港提供427,539美元来设计和建造这个展览。波特兰港有兴趣展示其商业活动如何与工程相关。OMSI计划向国家层面的教育工作者和其他博物馆传播有关展览的信息。

The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) is a progressive science and technology center. Its philosophy toward science education is to make it enticing, enjoyable and motivating. It accomplishes this by means of "hands-on", interactive exhibits and programs designed to provide a non- threatening learning environment, for which we are recognized nationally. OMSI recognizes the important national need to assist the public in understanding and being comfortable with advances in, and methodology of applied science. It proposes to design and build a large exhibit that promotes problem solving using engineering principles. The exhibit will pose problems, offer basic information for the solution and provide a variety of tools and building materials from which the visitor can choose. The visitor then devises one or several possible solutions, and constructs a prototype to be tested in one of three large scale testing laboratories. The engineering fields addressed are aeronautical, mechanical and civil. Our visitors will come away from the exhibit with an increased appreciation for the way engineering is done and how solutions affect their lives. OMSI is requesting $577,324 from the National Science Foundation as well as $427,539 from the Port of Portland to design and build this exhibit. The Port of Portland is interested in demonstrating how its commercial activities relate to engineering. OMSI plans to disseminate information about the exhibit to educators and other museums on a national level.