stroker
stroker UberDork
8/19/20 8:14 a.m.

My 12 year old daughter is "good at math" and interested in Civil Engineering.  Does anyone know of a website intended to present information and problems to kids to foster an interest in potential career fields?  Basic engineering problems, etc.?  Seems like that would be a very useful thing.

alfadriver (Forum Supporter)
alfadriver (Forum Supporter) MegaDork
8/19/20 8:24 a.m.

https://www.asce.org/pre-college_outreach/ 

https://www.sae.org/learn/education

I also checked the ASME and IEEE, but if they have links for students, I could not find them quickly.

https://tryengineering.org/students/

Mr_Asa
Mr_Asa Dork
8/19/20 8:26 a.m.

Nothing specific springs to mind, but maybe a local club has a build competition?  I know that there are high-school level bridge design competitions, they continue up to the college level with the Steel Bridge competition.

 

ASCE has this as well, geared more towards high school, but still https://www.asce.org/pre-college_outreach/

nderwater
nderwater UltimaDork
8/19/20 8:30 a.m.

My kids and I consume youtube content like it's food.  Practical Engineering is a fantastic channel that explains civil engineering principles through easy to understand demos: https://www.youtube.com/c/PracticalEngineeringChannel/videos. There's a ton of other useful YT content out there if you search for it.

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