Outreach

Research Experience for Undergraduate Students: KUEST Bridge

KUEST Bridge diagram. A bridge held up by legs of "Math Acumen", "Mentorship & Acclimation", and "Cohort Building"
  • The KUEST Bridge program is a four-week residential engineering acclimation program   
  • This program provides research experience opportunities for incoming engineering freshmen.

Jayhawk Wireless Summer Camp for 9-12 High School Students 

Summer Camp 2022

In this summer camp, students learn about the following topics: 

  • The basics of signal processing
  • The basics of wireless communication, transmitter, and receiver architecture 
  • MATLAB, Python, and other software tools for signal processing, wireless communications, and electrical engineering in general.
  • Software defined radios (SDR) and their applications
  • The camp includes two hands-on lab: (1) programming SDRs to capture FM radio signals, and (2) wireless image transfer over the air using SDR.

STEM Education for K-9 students: TryEngineering Together 

A screenshot of the TryEngineering homepage
  • TryEngineering Together program is powered by the IEEE.
  • Faculty e-mentors K-9 students through several engineering units.
  • In this program, e-mentor and students read Focus Articles related to engineering and STEM fields and share their thoughts.
  • This program increases the exposure of K-12 students from a diverse set of backgrounds and under-represented groups to the engineering and STEM fields.