YESS Young Engineers and Scientists Seminars at the Historical Electronics Museum (HEM) Sponsored by Northrop Grumman

Don't forget that the final design competition will take place at the Hilton Hotel on January 10, 2008.

What's YESS?

The 2007 Young Engineers and Scientists Seminar (YESS) program for high school students, funded by a grant from Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems, is a project-based program to help students understand the engineering method - the way engineers perform their jobs. 

The theme for 2007 will be Engineering in Health Care.  In seven evening sessions from October through January, students will learn how to apply engineering principles to the design, build and test of a health care device that meets a customer's performance and cost goals.

For more information on YESS, contact your science teacher or the YESS Coordinator, Mr. Randy  Hubbard, Randy_Hubbard@hcpss.org. 

To register for the 2007 YESS program, please send an email to yess.hem@gmail.com giving your name, school, grade and any alternate email address.

The 2007 YESS program will be led by Dr. Taryn Bayles, Professor of Practice in the Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). The program will be a miniature version of the "Introduction to Engineering" course that Dr. Bayles teaches at UMBC. There will be a hands-on project during each of the seven sessions to illustrate how to design and build a hemodialysis system with performance and cost objectives. The series of programs will culminate with a project competition. The winners will be chosen for the perfomance and cost of their project and will share $2000 in prize money.

Attendance at the 2006-7 YESS program ranged from 76 to 136 students (with an average of 107 per session).