The institute provides a hands-on, immersive experience in a college setting, allowing high school students to work on engineering design projects and explore materials science with faculty and graduate students.
The Drexel University Materials Science & Engineering Summer Institute offers rising high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors an immersive, week-long experience exploring the world of materials. Students will delve into how atomic elements form materials and how processing variables influence their physical, mechanical, electrical, and thermal properties. Through hands-on science and engineering activities, participants will understand the impact of materials on fields such as energy, biotechnology, electronics, and aerospace. The program also weaves in themes of sustainability and nanotechnology throughout its modules. Students will gain practical skills through laboratory sessions where they learn about metals, polymers, ceramics, composites, and nanomaterials, including their processing, structure-property relationships, and applications. Activities may include electron microscopy, heat treating, tensile testing of metals, and synthesis of various materials. The institute aims to expose students to materials science in a college setting, fostering a deeper understanding of the scientific process and encouraging them to consider materials science and engineering as a potential college major and career.
Students attend lectures for the first full day and part of the second, with the remainder of the week focused on hands-on team projects based on the lecture material.
This program is ideal for aspiring scientists and engineers in high school who are curious about how materials are created and how they improve our lives, with an interest in applied science.
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