Curriculum Connections:

• Manufacturing / Mechanical Engineering: Designing and constructing prosthetics
• Biomedical Engineering: Application of anatomy to mechanical design

Students will be able to:

• Identify various applications of 3D printing in medicine
• Analyze the anatomy of a prosthetic arm, hand, and finger
• Design and build their own prosthetic finger
• Advance their TinkerCAD skills
• Understand drawing and dimensioning
• Apply client details to their own prosthetic design

Curriculum Connections

• Manufacturing Engineering: Designing and constructing products.

Students will be able to:

• Describe and explain the different types of manufacturing
• Identify the various fields that utilize 3D printing
• Use TinkerCad software to design their various products

Curriculum Connections: 

• Physics: Newton’s Laws, Fluid Flow, Balance of Forces
• Intro to Engineering: Iterative Design Process, Functional Analysis, Open-Ended Design Problems

Students will be able to:

• Analyze real-world problems and use critical thinking skills in order to solve them
• Collect and analyze data 
• Explain the engineering process as it pertains to their design
• Understand the 6 degree of freedom motion of an airplane
• Describe the forces on an airplane
• Analyze airplane performance through precision and accuracy

Curriculum Connections: 

• Coding Vocabulary
• Coding Concepts

Students will be able to:

• Analyze real-world problems and use critical thinking skills in order to solve them
• Explore the variety of coding languages
• Describe the difference between front-end and back-end design
• Design and build an app in MIT App Inventor
• Customize App
• Explain the engineering process as it pertains to their app

Curriculum Connections: 

• Aligns with biology and computer science curriculums in high schools.
• Appropriate for:
  • Intro Biology class
  • Intro computer science class 
  • AP/IB/upper-level biology class
  • AP/IB/upper-level computer science class
  • Upper-level engineering/tech-ed class

Students will be able to:

• Engage in the engineering design and iterative process
• Analyze complex real-world problems through a biological lens
• Follow specific criteria in order to problem solve by making informed and specific search queries
• Discover and understand the importance of bioinformatics and sequencing to diagnose and treat diseases

Curriculum Connections: 

• Electrical Engineering: using math, science, and engineering concepts to make the hardware to support an eye tracking device
• Computer Science: using coding knowledge to produce the software to support an eye tracking device
• Biomedical Engineering: applying math, science, and engineering concepts to biology and medicine to create eye tracking solutions

Geometry: the branch of mathematics that deals with the measurement, properties, and relationships of points, lines, angles, surfaces, and solids

Students will be able to –

• Analyze real-world problems and use critical thinking skills in order to solve them
• Explore developments in eye tracking technology.
• Understand how eye tracking can be used to help people with physical limitation communicate
• Design a model for an eye using the materials given.
• Use geometry to understand how a computer can track eye movement
• Explain the engineering process as it pertains to their design and reflect on opportunities to improve it.
• Understand that technology needs to be made with user experience in mind.

Curriculum Connections: 

• Physics: Newton’s Laws 
• Environmental Science: Human Population; Biodiversity 
• Geometry: Property of shapes; polyhedra 
• Introduction to Engineering: Structural Analysis, Open Ended Design Problems

Students will be able to:

• Engage in the Engineering Design Process
• Analyze complex real-world problems following specific criteria in order to problem solve 
• Discover and understand the variety of ways bridges can be designed as well as used in the present day
• Creatively design a bridge using materials at home
• Reflect and explain their thinking through videos

Curriculum Connections: 

• Cybersecurity: the state of being protected against the criminal or unauthorized use of electronic data, or the measures taken to achieve this
• Software Engineering: the systematic application of engineering approaches to the development of software
• Computer Engineering: a branch of engineering that integrates several fields of computer science and electronic engineering required to develop computer hardware and software

Students will be able to: 

• Understand the importance of cybersecurity
• Analyze different types of cyber attacks
• Describe how to identify phishing attacks
• Practice using different methods of encryption

Curriculum Connections: 

• Aligns with chemistry and biology curriculums in high school
• Chemical Engineering: using math, science, and engineering concepts to design an enteric coating to delay the release of colored tablets inside the human body
• Biomedical Engineering: designing and constructing drug delivery devices

Students will be able to: 

• Analyze real-world problems and use critical thinking skills in order to solve them
• Explore developments in drug delivery systems
• Design and build a small-scale dual delayed drug release delivery system using material provided
• Explain the engineering process as it pertains to their design and reflect on opportunities to improve it

Curriculum Connections: 

• Mechanical Engineering: using math, science, and engineering concepts to design a vehicle that moves efficiently with an electric motor

Students will be able to: 

• Analyze real-world problems and use critical thinking skills in order to solve them
• Explore developments in electric vehicle technology and batteries
• Design and build an electric vehicle using the material provided
• Explain the engineering process as it pertains to their design and reflect on opportunities to improve it

Curriculum Connections: 

• Physics: Ohm’s Law and Circuit Analysis
• Computer Science: Iterative Processes, C Programming Language, Coding Design Process

Students will be able to: 

• Learn more about electrical engineering and computer science with a hands-on experience
• Use and Identify several components in the Arduino system, including LEDs, potentiometers, and resistors
• Have a basic understanding of how the Arduino system works
• Use the C coding language with the Arduino computer application
• Create their own Arduino-based projects

Curriculum Connections: 

• Chemistry: Redox reactions, electrolysis
• Environmental Engineering: using math, science, and engineering concepts to protect the living organisms on Earth
• Environmental Science: Greenhouse gasses, decarbonization, climate change
• Chemical Engineering: using math, science, and engineering concepts to produce solutions using chemical processes

Students will be able to:

• Analyze real-world problems and use critical thinking skills in order to solve them
• Work through and understand the engineering design process
• Produce green hydrogen by building an electrolysis cell
• Collect and analyze data

Curriculum Connections: 

• Physics: 2D-Motion; Projectile Motion
• Freshman Computing: Predictive Analysis
• Statistics: Plotting Trendlines; Modeling

Students will be able to:

• Define machine learning and provide real world applications for where it is used
• Describe the engineering design process and apply it to the design and construction of a catapult
• Develop a mathematical model that describes the performance of the catapult
• Create an algorithm based on the performance analysis of the catapult

Curriculum Connections: 

• Algebra 2/Precalculus: Combinatorics; Linear Algebra 
• Intro to Computer Science: Primitive Types; Iterations 
• Advanced Mathematics: Graph Theory; Combinatorics
• Environmental: Pandemics
• AP Computer Science: Algorithms

Students will be able to: 

• Solve the Traveling Salesman Problem
• Learn about a distance matrix
• Learn how to solve computer science-related problems
• Program a virtual drone of your own

Curriculum Connections: 

• Biomedical Engineering
• Physics and math 
  • Energy of sunlight

Students will be able to: 

• Discover the role of light within the medical field
• Learn the different characteristics of sunlight 
• Work through the Engineering Process
• Create and design a medical treatment using technology
• Use mathematical formulas in order to analyze the effectiveness of the design solution

Curriculum Connections: 

• Environmental Engineering: using math, science, and engineering concepts to protect the living organisms on Earth

Students will be able to: 

• Analyze real-world problems and use critical thinking skills in order to solve them
• Explore & describe renewable energy
• Design and build a solar-powered turbine
• Design and build wind turbine blade prototypes
• Collect and analyze data
• Explain the engineering process as it pertains to their design

Curriculum Connections:

• Computer Science: Block Programming, Python, Coding Design Process
• Intro to Engineering: Engineering Design Process

Students will be able to: 

• Learn more about electrical engineering and computer science with a hands-on experience
• Understand the basics of robotics systems
• Use the Coding Design Process to write code and improve it upon analysis
• Critically think in order to create their own set of solutions to their puzzles.

Curriculum Connections: 

• Acoustic Engineering: Design, analysis and control of sound
• Sound Engineering: Design and manage sound levels and outputs, take care of sound equipment for live recording

Students will be able to: 

• Identify basic terms related to sound 
• Understand the effects of noise pollution
• Design a sound barrier to reduce levels of noise pollution 
• Learn about career opportunities related to sound
• Learn about how to record data related to sound

Curriculum Connections: 

• Physics: Newton’s Laws, Fluid Flow, Orbital Mechanics 
• Intro to Engineering: Iterative Design Process, Functional Analysis, Open-Ended Design Problems

Students will be able to: 

• Analyze real-world problems and use critical thinking skills in order to solve them
• Collect and analyze data 
• Explain the engineering process as it pertains to their design
• Understand space mission phases
• Describe the forces on a balloon rocket
• Analyze rocket performance through data collection and simulation

Curriculum Connections: 

• Environmental Science: Water Issues and Water Pollution
• Earth Science: The Water Cycle

Students will be able to: 

• Describe and explain actions that contribute to your water footprint
• Mimic a water clarification process
• Design and create a water filtration system
• Identify and explain various steps involved in the process of water treatment
• Analyze a water sample before and after it undergoes a water filtration process
• Use the iterative process to optimize a design