YESS

Young Engineers and Scientists Seminars

at the Historical Electronics Museum (HEM)

Sponsored by Northrop Grumman

Home 2005 Program 2006 Program Location Historical Electronics Museum

 

What's YESS?

The 2006 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. In seven evening sessions from September through January, students will learn how to apply engineering principles to the design, build and test of a mechanical device that meets a customer's performance and cost goals.

For more information on YESS, contact your science teacher or the YESS Coordinator, Mr. Dean Sheridan, Dean_Sheridan@hcpss.org

 

The 2006 YESS program will be led by Dr. Taryn Bayles, Professor of Practice at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). The program will be a miniature version of her "Introduction to Engineering" course at UMBC. There will be a hands-on project during each of the seven sessions to illustrate how to design a mechanical device 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.

 

IMAGES FROM THE 2005 YESS PROGRAM

 

One of the 2005 mini-projects involved building a ping-pong ball launcher to achieve accuracy and distance

Another project involved building a water wheel to raise a weight the greatest distance possible

Another project involved building a wind-powered vehicle to cover the maximum distance possible.

 

The challenge during the 2005 YESS program was to design a vehicle powered by the spring in a mousetrap. The vehicle was designed for speed, distance, load pulling ability, and stopping accuracy.

 

Team BBAMM with their winning

mousetrap-powered vehicle