For more information, contact the Chantilly, Marshall, or Edison Academy web sites. Students communicate information through seminars, technical reports, and sharing of ideas. This course emphasizes the applications and the design process of engineering. Students form engineering teams and select a group design project. Each team uses communications, graphics, mathematics, and community personnel to solve problems.
Appropriate information is learned by each team in order to complete a project.
Projects may be models, systems, or products that creatively solve an engineering problem. Students will use an integrated technology approach to solve problems in manufacturing, production, and engineering. Working in teams, students will design, research, and build prototypes of real-world systems. Units of study include design processes, design of structures, computer-aided processes, quality assurance, electrical systems, and control engineering. Opportunities will be provided to work with business and industry through class-based activities, an industry interview project, and an optional internship.