Locations:

Coloma High School
Niles High School

Career Opportunities Include:

· Application Engineer
· Computer Scientist
· Design Engineer
· Electrical Engineer
· Law: Patent Law and Intellectual Property
· Medicine: Bioengineering
· System Designer

GRADES: 11-12

Prerequisites: Algebra II and a Science Lab Course

Class Description

The Infinity Project, created by an alliance with Southern Methodist University and Texas Instruments, brings state-of-the-art engineering and advanced technology education into high schools nationwide. This program teaches students how engineers use their ingenuity to imagine and build new technologies. Using the Engineering Design Process, students learn the practical application of math and science to technology. They will work with scaled-down versions of the same Visual Application Builder software and Digital Signal Processing hardware used in the industry as they design systems such as digital music synthesizers, optical money counters, wireless networks, and touch-tone cell phones. In addition, students will learn how sound images are digitized, compressed, stored, and transmitted via computerized communication systems.

Students who successfully complete the Infinity Project will be better prepared to study more advanced math and science, plus enjoy engineering courses in a field leading to high-tech, hands-on careers as well as careers that employ analytical thinking, creativity and design.

Content Areas

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Career Outlook

The explosive impact of computers and information technology on our everyday lives has generated a need to design and develop new computer software systems and to incorporate new technologies in a rapidly growing range of applications.

Computer systems software engineers coordinate the construction and maintenance of a company's computer system and plan their future growth.

Median annual earnings of computer applications software engineers who worked full time in 2002 were about $70,900.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics,Occupational Outlook Handbook 2004-2005 Edition. http://bls.gov/oco/