Engineering Students Get Out in the Field

10/28/2014

Mr. Jacobs’ Introduction to Engineering classes recently embarked on several field trips – to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, to the Baltimore County Recycling Center and to the Wegmans construction site–to gain a better understanding of what engineering looks like in real life.

At NASA Goddard, the students explored activities typically performed by aeronautical, astronautical, electrical and mechanical engineers; at the Baltimore County Single-stream Recycling Center showed us work developed by environmental, mechanical and electrical engineers. The Wegmans site, previewed by presentations by civil engineers, structural engineers and architects at the Greenberg Gibbons office, gives the students some excellent background in these activities.

These trips provide the students with a good understanding of some of the exciting activities that engineers can get involved with. Future activities include a visit from a US Navy chemical and environmental engineer, who will bring samples of the work the Navy is doing world-wide to reduce pollution in the ocean, and, of course, the annual Robot Challenge on April, which gives students first-hand exposure to electrical, mechanical and robotics engineering by building a robot with an attractive body covering, that can walk by itself. They will compete with the hundred teams from more than 50 schools, each trying to prove that they are best team there.

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