The ESP group during a fun activity

Engineering Summer Program 2007

ESP 2007 Website

July 23, 2007 - The Engineering Summer Program (ESP) is an excellent recruiting tool for the College of Engineering and Applied Science. Each summer, high school students join us for two weeks of classes, field trips, and fun in the Rockies. Although the majority of the participants are from Wyoming, we always have a number of out of state students join us. The program is funded by the Wyoming Engineering Society, the J. Kenneth and Pat Kennedy Endowment, and the College of Engineering.

This year’s ESP offered hands-on classes in composite materials, robotics, computer science, computer electronics, engineering structures, and vehicle dynamics. Our activities included an all-day trip to Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming; a hard hat tour of the new UW convention center; a beautiful Sunday at Barber Lake in the Snowy Range; the UW stage play “The Man in the Flying Lawn Chair;” an evening at the climbing wall in Half Acre Gymnasium; a viewing at the UW Planetarium; and picnics, sports, and summertime fun.

We were please to have two very competent conference Assistants this year in David Wenig, a junior majoring in mechanical engineering, and Lori Sandberg, a freshman in architectural engineering.

If you know a student who will be a junior in high school in fall 2007, send us their name and we will make sure they are added to our ESP 2008 mailing list. For more information, contact Susan McCormack at esp@uwyo.edu or 307-766-4254.