Professors Yung-Hsiang Lu, Cheng-Kok Koh, and George Lee Engage Kids in Hands-On Engineering
ECE faculty, Yung-Hsiang Lu, Cheng-Kok Koh, and George Lee, together with ECE undergraduate and graduate students, Michael A. Gasser, Jing Feng, Kristen M. Baldauf, Kevin Townsend, and Ian R. Oliver, engaged 9th and 10th graders in hands-on engineering project at summer camps organized by the Minority Engineering Program (MEP) and the Women in Engineering Program (WIEP). The campers in the MEP PREFACE camp and the two WIEP EDGE camps designed and implemented dance mats for the game Dance-Dance Revolution. They learned Boolean logic and software-hardware interface in the project. This engineering project was supported in part by the National Science Foundation and Hewlett-Packard. It is a precollege outreach component of a new ECE program called REACH--for Reaching Excellence in Academic Achievement--that helps students learn in a cooperative and collaborative environment.