Our program is designed to initiate high school students to engineering and science through practical activities on campus led by experienced graduate and undergraduate students of the Faculty of Engineering.
Cost: $65 per workshop at your school and $25 per workshop on the uOttawa campus
Format:
Students enjoy a morning or an afternoon of workshops related to a specific topic.
How to book:
Pick a workshop that best suits your students’ needs and interests. Call us to book a date and time that works for you.
Workshops
Chemical Engineering
3 hours
Allow your students to explore the breadth of chemical engineering. They will perform experiments related to the study of heat transfer, mass transfer, fluid flow, measurement and material balances. The workshop also includes a tour of our undergraduate pilot plant facility which includes a distillation column, a fuel cell and kidney dialysis setups.
Green Engineers - Solar Energy
3 hours
Students attending this workshop explore solar energy technology. In particular, using hand-on experiments students study the operation of solar cells in a solar panel, construct circuits that includes a solar panel to operate devices, and construct the basic circuit of a photovoltaic system.
Programming / Natural Language Processing
3 hoursDesigned for beginners, our programming workshop introduces students to the world of computer programming for natural language processing (NLP) applications. They will study practical demonstrations of information retrieval and question answering systems, as well as particular details of the IBM Watson question answering system, renown for winning the Jeopardy game. They will also learn how to build automatic systems that summarize texts and will build a system that summarizes French texts. There will be surprise prizes for the best solutions to exercises.
Mechanical Engineering
3 hours (maximum 12 students)
Participating students of this workshop will construct and investigate several different mechanisms. Using a variety of tools and take-home resources, they will be guided in the construction of their very own tool box.
3D Printing
3 hours (maximum 25 students)
Participants of this workshop will be introduced to 3D printing in the context of entrepreneurship. As part of a team, participants will first determine a need or a problem in their environment and try to design a product with digital tools that respond to it. Students will then have the opportunity to print their designs.
Arduino
3 hours (maximum 25 students)
In this interactive workshop, students will get a chance to learn about micro-controllers by programming an Arduino board and controlling its various inputs and outputs (lights, motors, household appliances, etc). In this day and age, open source micro-controllers like the Arduino have become mainstream and have been adopted by electronic hobbyists around the world. This workshop gives participants a good introduction to the world of electronics and electrical engineering.
Robotics
3 hours
The day begins with the students separated into teams of three and assigned a robot kit and a computer. The instructor then goes over the basics of robot design and explains to the students their objective: build the best autonomous sumo-wrestling robot. Then using the Lego MindstormTM kits, the students work together in groups of three to construct, program, and test their robots. Finally, the students group together around the ring to watch their robots duke it for sumo supremacy. The Robotics workshop is an absolute blast and is an excellent introduction to the growing field of robotics. Come join us for a fun and educational field. May the best robot win!
