Conference Session

Innovative K-12 Engineering Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dewey Spangler, Virginia Tech; Olga Pierrakos, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

students atRVGS and to other governor’s school students via an online computer course managementsystem (CMS). GSEN has a pre-requisite of introductory calculus and extends over the entireschool year. RVGS is one of the first high schools in the United States that allows students totake an online calculus based engineering mechanics course for college credit. Most other highschool engineering programs investigate the profession in general terms and then focus on“hands-on” project oriented activities. Many of the programs reviewed by the authors involvesummer “boot camp” type curriculums usually not requiring a mathematics background beyondalgebra or trigonometry. While important, these programs do not allow students to be exposed toconcepts in