Summer College of Engineering Design Experience for Minority Middle and Highschool Girls - Syllabus and Assessment Outcome

This paper presents a proven experience of delivering a summer academy to introducing principles of engineering design to middle and high school minority girls. The academy presented in this paper is a sample of a series of summer academies that were delivered over a span of over academic years. The summer academies are principally managed through collaboration between Engineering Society of Detroit (ESD) and the School of engineering at Eastern Michigan University and completely directed under ESD.