YESS 2005 Program

YESS

Young Engineers and Scientists Seminars

at the Historical Electronics Museum (HEM)

Sponsored by Northrop Grumman

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2005 YESS Program

The 2005 Young Engineers and Scientists Seminar (YESS) program for high school students, funded by a grant from Northrop Grumman, was very successful again this fall.

The attendance ranged from 57 to 90 students (with an average of 75 students at each session). Twenty four students attended all of the seminars, 78 students attended the majority of the seminars and 108 students attended at least two of the seminars.

The project-based program helped students understand the engineering method - the way engineers perform their jobs. In seven sessions from September through December, students learned how to go from theory to modeling, designing, building, and testing a vehicle to compete in an engineering challenge. The challenge was to design, build and race a vehicle powered by the spring on a mousetrap. The vehicles competed on December 14 th for distance, speed, and load pulling ability. A new feature of the program this year was a tour of the Northrop Grumman BWI facilities on October 19th.

The first five sessions involved lectures, demonstrations and mini contests supporting the overall theme of the seven week program. The slides from the first five programs are linked below. During the last two sessions the YESS participants designed and built vehicles to achieve specified performance criteria and entered them into a contest to compete for $2000 in prizes.

Weekly presentations

September 22, 2005

Introduction to Engineering

So You Want to be an Engineer (1 MB)

Who Wants to be an Engineer

October 5 , 2005

Let it Launch Challenge

YESS Design Project

Mousetrap Powered Vehicle Contest

October 19th , 2005

Vehicle Dynamics

November 2 , 2005