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College of Engineering
International Summer Engineering Academy (SEA)

 

2012 Dates:

Session 1:June 18 - July 13 (Seniors and College Freshmen)

Session 2:July 2 - 27 (Grades 10, 11 and 12)

Kingston, RI

 

An engineering experience and college credits!

The emphasis of URI's Summer Engineering Academy is to educate not just engineering bound students, but all students about the science, opportunities, and variety of careers in engineering. Besides time in the classroom, students receive hands-on experience in the university's fully equipped engineering workshop, use tools that are employed in all engineering disciplines, and take field trips to local factories and businesses.

This program will expose students to a first-hand knowledge of what working in this field entails.  Students will earn college credits while gaining exposure to engineering, perhaps for the first time, and receive an overview of the many exciting disciplines within the field. Seniors and College Freshmen can enroll in Session 1 for an innovative introduction to Robotics taught by faculty with over 30 years experience in the field.

EGR Summer Academy 2011 Information

 

Dates for 2012:

Session 1: June 18 - July 13 (3 credits) 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

                    (Suitable for Grades 12 and College Freshmen)

     Jan 15     :   Enrollment opens.

     May 1      :   Last date for scholarship applications.

     June 1      :  Last date for cancellations. Cancellations after this date will not be refunded.

     June 18    :  Summer academy.

     3 credits for EGR110.

Session 2: July 2 - July 27 (4 credits) 9:00 am - 2:00 pm

                    (Suitable for Grades 10, 11 and 12)                      

     Jan 15     :  Enrollment opens.

     May 15     :  Last date for scholarship applications.

     June 15    :  Last date for cancellations. Cancellations after this date will not be refunded.

     July   2     :  Summer academy.

 

     4 credits for EGR105 (1 credit) and EGR109 (3 credits).

 

Residential Program:  Daily and evening activities.

Daily Program:

The daily program will engage students in the classroom for two and a half hours and workshop time for two hours, with half an hour for lunch. The classroom lectures will cover content from three courses: EGR110 (in session 1) and EGR109 and EGR105 (in session 2). The first session   Catalog descriptions of these courses are:

EGR105:  Introduction to engineering. Advanced problem solving using Excel.

EGR109:  Engineering in Everyday Life:  This course will introduce students to the different disciplines of engineering.  A brief introduction to the history of engineering will be studied. The process of engineering design will be examined by following the design and construction of objects encountered in everyday life including a bridge, and automobile, a toy and some household objects.  Engineering calculations used for designing some of these objects will be worked out.  Common manufacturing processes will be studied. Students will design using the computer.  Careers in engineering will be explored and practicing engineers will meet with the students to discuss their careers.

EGR110:  Introduction to Robotics: Working in small teams, students will use the Arduino processor to control a variety of devices including LEDs, motors, servo motors, vision and acoustic sensors and encoders.  Using a programming language (which will be taught as part of this program), these devices will be integrated to make robots.  The robots will be used to complete specific tasks of increasing complexity such as pick-and-place, obstacle course navigation, robot races etc.  Each student will be given her/his own hardware to keep after the conclusion of the course.

  (This course has not yet been approved by URI - approval is expected by the end of Spring12).

All field trips in the second session will start and end at URI, and transportation will be arranged. Effort will be made to constrain the timing of the trips to the Academy hours of 9:00 am. - 2:00 pm.

 

Optional Evening Activities (additional costs may apply):

Sailing Lessons, Maths and Physics Tutoring etc.

Scholarships:

Some scholarships are available to partly offset the course fees. These scholarships are means based.  Please call 401-874-5189 or email sodhi@egr.uri.edu directly for more information. 

Students with disabilities will be given special accommodation.

 

Application Procedure:

 

Download application form and return by fax/scan/email.

Questions ?

1. Email sodhi@egr.uri.edu.

2. Call +1-401-874-5189.