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Education Highlight D: "What is Engineering" Fair
Two ERC Computer-Integrated Surgical Student Research Society (CISSRS) chairs, Carol Reiley and Sunipa Saha, participated in the "What is Engineering?" Fair for High School students on January 27, 2005. The fair was sponsored by the JHU Montgomery County Campus HeadsUp program and Lockheed Martin. Carol and Sunipa interacted with high school students from all over Maryland informing them of the current engineering and medical research that is being conducted in the Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology (CISST). A slide show was also shown to visually inform the participants of different programs, activities, and research in CISST. This fair exposed over 600 high school to science, technology, math and engineering (STEM) topics. More broadly, the HeadsUp program facilitates programs at a higher level of education through summer engineering and bioscience courses to high school juniors, seniors, and early college students. Programs such as the Heads Up are an excellent way for CISST to involve current undergraduate and graduate students to educate others about the opportunities in medical science and technology early in their academic career. For graduate students, reaching out to a younger generation is a great mentoring opportunity The high school students that attended the fair already have an interest in engineering, therefore, having CISST represent our research and education programs can educate students in more specific engineering fields. The unique marriage of medicine and robotics is not typically what students think of when they hear the word engineering. As current graduate students in these areas, Carol and Sunipa shared this knowledge at the fair. Since our Center is comprised of four different engineering departments, biomedical, computer science, mechanical, and electrical and computer, students who participated now have a better knowledge of the breadth of the opportunities in engineering that they may not have known about before. << back to Education Highlights main menu |
