Outreach

The Renewable Energy Advancement for Detroit Youth (READY) program is based on strong evidence that immersion experiences in technology, physical science and engineering are an effective approach toward providing students with the experiential knowledge necessary for future science and engineering success.

Sixty  7-8^th graders participate in the WIMS program annually.  As part of this program Dr. Bush's presented an overview of Mechanical Engineering  to the students and then to conducted an active-learning activity with the class to help them better understand aspects of Mechanical Engineering. 

Dr. Tamara Bush presented to multiple 5th grade classes at a local school on forces and motions associated with the human body. 

Dr. Bush conduct this outreach activity annually and her talks are part of the fifth grade human body learning modules.  During this year's event, and at the first presentation Dr. Bush walked into the class, and one of the 5th graders blurted out "Dr. Bush is a girl?" This started the discussion about girls being engineers too...

Fifth grade students in a local school learned about Biomechanics and what it takes to be an engineers.  Students also learned about prosthetic devices and implants. Many of the students knew someone with a hip or knee replacement and were enthusiastic to hear more about them.  Dr. Bush also brought in a pressure mat and reflective motion capture markers.  The students were able to interact with both of these items  - they were particularly interested in seeing how the pressures on the buttock changed with interactions of different support surfaces (shown below).