I'm currently involved with the Grand Prairie Independent School District (ISD) to help develop academic programs for a Technical High School currently being planned and built. When we started I found out, to my dismay, that GPISD only had a simple Intro to Engineering class. They do have a programming class under the area of business and an electronics class under science. But nothing to lead people into engineering. I was appalled at the lack of Engineering curriculum.
Now, I'm interested in helping them get some engineering programs in place for the new technical high school. I was looking at what academic information NI has. They have an NI Academic area on there website. It is mainly LabVIEW based academics...as if that were a surprise.
They also have NI ELVIS which a LabVIEW based electronic is an integrated design and prototyping platform for engineering and science laboratories to teach concepts in measurements, circuits, controls, microcontroller, and embedded design. It is a bit pricey for high schools and I think targeted to colleges.
Hopefully, the GPISD can afford to put in place a good engineering program. Whether they can afford NI or not is yet to be seen.
Project lead the way is a good, somewhat canned engineering curriculum. There are other school districts that use Project Lead the way and GPISD will probably follow suite.
Well, have a good day.
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