Career Path - USC Viterbi

Coding/Cyber, Automation/AI, Robotics Environmental/Economics Rocketry
Projects, Activities, Themes, Heuristics
(CAREER PATH)

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CAREER PATH Academy uses a STEM framework that integrates culturally relevant concepts and real world applications to the 21st century STEM fields of Coding/Cyber, Automation/AI, Robotics, Environmental Engineering, & Rocketry through Projects, Activities, Thematic lessons, & Heuristic problem solving techniques. In each eight week session, CAREER PATH offers curricula, USC STEM student support, as well as tools and equipment to provide advanced, authentic STEM experiences for elementary, middle and high school students. During each session, courses from the various strands are offered to students. CAREER PATH uses the following NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering to provide context for culturally relevant concepts and real-world applications.

NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering

Advanced Personalized Learning

A growing appreciation of individual preferences and aptitudes has led toward more “personalized learning,” in which instruction is tailored to a student’s individual needs. Given the diversity of individual preferences, and the complexity of each human brain, developing teaching methods that optimize learning will require engineering solutions of the future.

Make Solar Energy Economical

Currently, solar energy provides less than 1 percent of the world's total energy, but it has the potential to provide much, much more.

Restore and Improve Urban Infrastructure

Infrastructure is the combination of fundamental systems that support a community, region, or country. Society faces the formidable challenge of modernizing the fundamental structures that will support our civilization in centuries ahead.

Secure Cyberspace

Computer systems are involved in the management of almost all areas of our lives; from electronic communications, and data systems, to controlling traffic lights to routing airplanes. It is clear that engineering needs to develop innovations for addressing a long list of cybersecurity priorities