Materials Camp Student Support 2003

该提案旨在为2003年夏季参加材料营方案的高中生提供参与者支持。这些营地类似于2002年由NSF工程部资助的MaterialsCamp计划。2003年计划举办两个材料夏令营项目，每个项目30名学生。这两个项目的举办时间如下：2003年7月7日至13日，华盛顿大学材料夏令营西部，西雅图，华盛顿州; 2003年8月11日至17日，材料夏令营东部，俄亥俄州材料公园。夏令营的课程包括金属、陶瓷、聚合物、复合材料和生物材料的工程应用。学生通过设置实验室实验和团队项目来体验学习，在团队项目中，他们探索与工程系统相关的材料的结构-性能-加工-应用关系。日常材料系统是该项目的基础，旨在构建更先进的应用。专业的社会志愿者与每五名学生组成的团队一起工作，以确保真实的学习和动力。夏令营结束时，学生们将向专业观众进行项目演示。该项目的预期成果是一组60名学生，他们对工程和工程应用更加了解，在材料领域具有特定经验。我们对以前的夏令营的评价是非常积极的，在说服学生考虑和报名参加大学工程。因此，我们的期望是，我们将能够让学生关注工程学的优势，从而增加工程学的入学率，不仅在参加的学生中，而且在他们的同龄人中也是如此。这一建议的智力价值与这些学生将学到的知识有关。参加夏令营的学生通常是高中里比较好的学生。他们中的大多数人最初表示他们对科学或工程不感兴趣，而是对艺术、社会科学和医学等其他领域感兴趣。使用集中的，动手的方法的营地计划，我们的经验表明，知识内容的营地兴奋他们，从而扩大了他们的思维，作为一个职业和未来的研究。更广泛的影响，该计划提供了这些聪明的学生与具体的理解的潜力，职业生涯在工程，提供了一个潜在的新的一批学生的科学和工程研究，从而增加了对科学和工程感兴趣的美国学生的数量。它还有助于拓宽学生对材料领域的理解，并展示了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.