This is an excellent course for students to use their creativity to solve problems and figure out how things work. A hands-on approach will introduce students to concepts and skills in current and emerging technical fields. The course features high-tech equipment and programs in a student-centered classroom. Projects challenge and engage students' minds to provide a strong foundation that could launch them into engineering or other high-tech careers such as alternative energies, robotics and automated systems, optics, biomedical, and nanotechnology. Students may take this course for two years.