Engineering Academy is a mentorship program operating in the Klein, TX area that provides an engineering team experience for teen youth and young college age students. It will challenge the students to solve real-world problems while working towards a final product. As in real engineering, problems and challenges will be discovered and need to be solved along the way.
What Engineering Academy is not is a scheduled classroom environment nor a camp to introduce students to topics. It is for serious minded students that want an opportunity to have mentorship and an opportunity and direction to participate in engineering.
If your student is interested in mechanical, electrical, or software engineering (programming), this team environment will test and grow their skills.
I ask for a commitment of 3 hours minimum of effort per week to be part of the team. Activities will include documentation, research, training, hands on applications.
Initially there will be no cost to participate. Once the team(s) grow, there may be a reasonable fee to offset some costs.
Mentorship was an important role in my life, and I look forward in providing this opportunity to the students as well.
This will be a Christ centered environment and expect behavior and attitude to reflect.
If you are 13+, you are invited to join this mentorship. Your continued membership with this group will be based on your willingness to participate and follow all guidelines.
Please indicate which discipline you are interested in. Can mentor the following:
Computer Science (Programming)
Electrical
Mechanical
Because this is a mentorship program, if you lose interest, it is OK to leave the group.
To get started, register below. Any questions send an e-mail to bchidester@protonmail.com.
To see the lab that was built to support this effort click HERE
If you are interested in Mechanical Engineering and are new to the group, please perform the following to develop and assess your skills. Becoming familiar with your tool is critical.
Hint: This is not graded, so if you get stuck, e-mail questions to bchidester@protonmail.com. I want to help you make progress. Also, there are lots of tutorials available for FreeCAD.
Level 1 Challenge
Install FreeCAD version 1.0
Make a 10cm square
email the *.FCstd generated file to bchidester@protonmail.com
Level 2 Challenge
With the 10cm Cube, perform the following
Fully constrain the cube to the X-Y plane
Place the X-Y axis inthe center of the cube
Change the transparency of the cube to 50%
email the *.FCstd generated file to bchidester@protonmail.com
Currently building skills to build a team to design and make robot eyes.
More project details HERE