Academic Components (June 6 - July 14, 2005)

Houston PREP offered the following subjects and activities:

1. Engineering - a four-hour per week lecture/laboratory class on topics in engineering with engineering design projects, required of First, Second and Third Year participants.
2. Introduction to Computer Science - a four hour per week lecture/laboratory class (equipped with Dell computers) worked with different computer programming. Visual Basic was done by First year students and Third year students programmed with Java Script while Fourth year students worked with robotics.
3. Introduction to Physics - a four-hour per week lecture class in elementary topics in physics; required of Second Year students.
4. Linear Algebra - a four-hour per week lecture class required of Second Year students, on topics of Matrices and their applications.
5. Logic- a four-hour per week lecture class that demonstrated its application to Mathematics and was required of First Year participants.
6. Problem Solving - a two-hour per week lecture class to further develop creativity and problem solving skills required for First and Fourth year students.
7. SAT Preparatory Seminar - a two-hour per week SAT Math/ Verbal Reasoning lectures were attended my Third year students, when Fourth year students were receiving SAT Preparation.  
8. Statistics - a four-hour per week lecture class required of Third Year participants. Topics include probability, descriptive measures (central tendency, variation, etc.), graphs, chi-square tests, simple linear regression, questionnaire design, and sampling techniques.
9. Technical Writing - a four-hour per week lecture/seminar/computer lab class required of Third Year participants.
10. NASA - a four hour per week lecture/laboratory class required of First, Second and Fourth year Students on topics in Space and Earth Sciences.
11. Educational Field Trips - a variety number of hours spent on Fridays of specific weeks involving the following:
12. July 8, 2004 All PREP students spent a day at Astroworld where they learned applications of engineering and physics. The applications of engineering and physics observed at Astroworld were further analyzed through a set of worksheets provided by Astroworld’s management.
    June 24, 2004 All of the students visited the Houston Museum of Natural Science. The students viewed the Museum exhibits and an IMAX Film.
    June 17, 2004 All of the students spent a day at the NASA Johnson Space Center where they viewed NASA’s IMAX Theatre.

 

Academic Components Summary

 

1st Year:	Introduction to Engineering Introduction to Computer Science (Visual Basic) Logic and Its Application to Mathematics NASA Problem Solving/ Computational Science	3rd Year:	Introduction to Statistics Technical Writing Business Plan Report Engineering SAT Math/ Verbal Reasoning
2nd Year:	Engineering Introduction to Physics Linear Algebra/ Algebraic Structure NASA/ Computational Science Computer Science	4th Year:	Computer Science/ Robotics NASA/ Problem Solving Finite Math Computational Science (Neural Network) SAT Preparation

 

All Years:

Field Trips Guest Speakers Presentations Research and Study