SML partners closely with the Recruitment and K-12 Outreach Office of the College of Engineering in its various pre-college programs. As a designated Engineering Tour Stop, SML receives about 80 visitors every month including prospective students and their parents.
Every summer Dr. Tan and his students give accessible lectures and hold hands-on, interactive demos on smart materials, artificial muscles, and biomimetic robots for participants of a number of K-12 outreach programs, such as the Detroit-Area Pre-College Engineering Program (DAPCEP), the High School Engineering Institute Program, the Women in Engineering Program, and the Wireless Integrated MicroSystems (WIMS) for Teens Program.
We have developed a robotic fish educational kit, which provides step-by-step instructions on how to build the robot, including assembling the circuit board, packaging, microcontroller programming, and testing for waterproofing and functions. In addition, the kit comes with a curriculum covering the fundamentals of electroactive polymers, robotics, circuits, physics, and control.
The robotic fish educational kit developed in SML.
