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Kristen Clapper Bergsman; Eric H. Chudler – Biomedical Engineering Education, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic and its resulting health and safety concerns caused the cancellation of many engineering education opportunities for high school students. To expose high school students to the field of neural engineering and encourage them to pursue academic pathways in biomedical engineering, the Center for Neurotechnology (CNT) at the…
Descriptors: Neurosciences, Biomedicine, Engineering Education, Summer Programs
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LoPresti, Peter G.; Manikas, Theodore W.; Kohlbeck, Jeff G. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2010
An Electrical Engineering Summer Academy for Pre-College Students was held at the University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, during the summers of 2007 and 2008. The Academy participants included students having just completed 7th to 11th grade and teachers from middle school through high school. The students and teachers participated in team-building,…
Descriptors: Engineering, Professional Occupations, Engineering Education, Career Exploration
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Larson, Reed; Walker, Kathrin; Pearce, Nickki – Journal of Community Psychology, 2005
This article examines the unfolding of experiences in youth programs that differed in the degree of youth and adult influence over program activities. In-depth qualitative data were obtained over a three- to four-month cycle of activities in two "youth-driven" and two "adult-driven" programs for high-school-aged youth. All had been identified as…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Program Evaluation, Disadvantaged Youth, Comparative Analysis