Course Description:
Students prepare to join today's technical workforce by using team problem-solving techniques, documenting experiments in a notebook, and demonstrating professional language, behavior, and attire. This course will teach students how to conduct their own research on topics of interest, culminating in a competition research paper. Projects follow the “Hands-On-Minds On” philosophy. Students generate their own engineering projects by following the '7 Step Engineering Process' and enter it in a competitive engineering fair.
 
Career Areas:
Engineers in all disciplines
 
 
Job Outlook:
Employment of engineers is expected to grow about as fast as the average for all occupations over the next decade, but growth will vary by specialty. Biomedical engineers should experience the fastest growth, while civil engineers should see the largest employment increase. Overall job opportunities in engineering are expected to be good.  Engineering employment is expected to grow by 11 percent over the 2008–18 decade, about as fast as the average for all occupations. Engineers traditionally have been concentrated in slower growing or declining manufacturing industries, in which they will continue to be needed to design, build, test, and improve manufactured products. However, increasing employment of engineers in engineering, research and development, and consulting services industries should generate most of the employment growth.
 
Monta Vista High School                                           Mountain View High
Bruce Kawanami, Instructor                                     Phil Wiechec, Instructor