Handling hovercrafts : designing a project curriculum to introduce girls to mechanical engineering
Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2006.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2007
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| author | Yang, Sandie (Sandie S.) |
| author2 | Carol Livermore. |
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| description | Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2006. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/366812019-04-12T09:22:22Z Handling hovercrafts : designing a project curriculum to introduce girls to mechanical engineering Designing a project curriculum to introduce girls to mechanical engineering Yang, Sandie (Sandie S.) Carol Livermore. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. Mechanical Engineering. Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (p. 16). The Women's Technology Program was created in MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department to expose girls to engineering topics and to encourage them to choose engineering majors in college. For the upcoming launch of a WTP in the mechanical engineering department, a new curriculum is being developed. The objective of this research was to create a capstone design project for the WTP-ME curriculum that sparks high school girls' interest in design and manufacturing. A hovercraft design contest was chosen as the basis for the project because of the range of concepts it encompasses and because the competitive nature of the project would encourage cooperation and motivation among the students. To test the project's feasibility, several hovercrafts were built using different materials and geometries. A list of materials was created and contest rules were constructed based on the results, and one hovercraft design was selected to be used as a template hovercraft for the students. by Sandie Yang. S.B. 2007-03-12T17:43:53Z 2007-03-12T17:43:53Z 2006 2006 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/36681 77536732 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 23 p. application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Mechanical Engineering. Yang, Sandie (Sandie S.) Handling hovercrafts : designing a project curriculum to introduce girls to mechanical engineering |
| title | Handling hovercrafts : designing a project curriculum to introduce girls to mechanical engineering |
| title_full | Handling hovercrafts : designing a project curriculum to introduce girls to mechanical engineering |
| title_fullStr | Handling hovercrafts : designing a project curriculum to introduce girls to mechanical engineering |
| title_full_unstemmed | Handling hovercrafts : designing a project curriculum to introduce girls to mechanical engineering |
| title_short | Handling hovercrafts : designing a project curriculum to introduce girls to mechanical engineering |
| title_sort | handling hovercrafts designing a project curriculum to introduce girls to mechanical engineering |
| topic | Mechanical Engineering. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/36681 |
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