Empower and engage all students no matter what career path they have planned. The Engineer Your World courses were created by faculty in The University of Texas at Austin’s College of Education and Cockrell School of Engineering (both top-10 programs) who collaborated with secondary education specialists and NASA Engineers. In a recent post, we discussed the Engineer Your World program that provides the opportunity for all students to develop and benefit from an understanding of the Engineering mindset. This low-cost, engineering program can be implemented in almost any high school setting. As promised, this article will take an in-depth look at the Engineering Applications of Computer Science course. View the course descriptions and explore sample lessons. If you missed the first post and would like to learn more about the Engineering Design and Analysis course, you can read the article here.

EYW: Engineering Applications of Computer Science

Help your students develop skills in computational thinking, data representation, programming, modeling, and algorithmic thinking. The Engineering Applications of Computer Science focuses on three main topics:

1. Program Photos into Art: Students will learn the basics of Python programming. Then, they will combine their computational thinking and engineering skills in order to create an image processing tool that will take digital photos and turn them into Andy Warhol-style art.
2. Engineer Software Solutions: Students are put into teams and challenged to develop a home physical therapy system that is low-cost. They must combine a wearable device and a user-friendly interface. The major challenge here is balancing the needs of the users against the constraints of the project.
3. Hardware & Software System Design: Students create user-focused mechatronic assistive devices by combining Raspberry Pi with actuators and sensors. Then they take the knowledge they gained working on image processing from earlier projects and develop a camera-controlled wheelchair to make it easier for a person with quadriplegia.

EYW II Unit Descriptions

This course gives students the opportunity to experience mechanical, electrical, and biomedical engineering. By working through a series of design challenges students learn how engineering improves people’s lives and health, conserve resources, and allows for creativity in the arts.

1. Programming in Python & electronic music
2. Exploring images with custom photo filters
3. Analyzing video and computer-assisted physical therapy
4. Building and coding mechatronic assistive devices
5. System design for a camera-controlled wheelchair
6. Model selection and performance of water rockets

Inspire Tomorrow’s Problem Solvers with Engineer Your World

Get more information about how you can bring this powerful program to your high school by visiting the Engineer Your World website for more information. If budgets are a concern, you can be confident that this program understands that schools face limited funding. To make the program accessible to as many students as possible Engineer Your World is constantly seeking out the best options to keep the costs of this program low. Engineer Your World partners with Studica to locate and negotiate the most affordable pricing for supplies, equipment, and other consumables.