ENGINEERING CAREERS

 

The Engineering Careers program is designed for highly motivated students who intend to enter a college engineering program after high school. The program emphasizes the preparation of each student for the rigorous natural sciences, mathematics, and computer programming courses required for the mastery of an engineering curriculum. In addition, the Engineering Careers program exposes students to the different disciplines of the profession. This enables each student to test his/her decision to choose engineering and evaluate possible college engineering majors. Students are exposed to a combination of lectures, labs, and guest speakers from the engineering profession and local colleges. College credit is granted for selected courses.

 

Detailed Course Descriptions

 

 

 

GRADE 10

(2 credits)

 

Engineering Tech l

AP Computer Science A

Engineering Tech I

Geometric Tolerancing

Computer Aided Drafting & Design (CADD)

Software applications

Fabrication techniques

Baltimore Museum of Industry “Bridge Design” Contest

 

AP Computer Science A

JAVA Programming

Includes portable object-oriented language for applications, classes, arrays, inheritance, recursion, exception handling, graphic, and threads

Prepares students for the Advanced Placement test in Computer Science

 

GRADE 11

(2 credits)

 

Engineering Tech II

Introduction to Engineering (engineering divisions, engineering process manufacturing methods, measurement)

Technical Writing/Career Readiness

Manufacturing Variability (Tolerance Stack-ups [axial and radial])

Simple machines

Material science

Machine design

Mechanics (statics, dynamics)

Mechanical Vibrations)

Thermodynamics

Heat transfer

Fluid mechanics / Aerodynamics / Hydraulics / Pneumatics

Engineering for Reliability – Safety

Engineering Design Competitions

 

GRADE 12

(1 credit)

 

Engineering Tech III

Digital logic (programming)

Circuit theory

Digital electronics

Robotics

Senior Invention Project

Baltimore Museum of Industry “Robotics” Contest