Tales from the Wave Front: Teaching the Physics of Cell Phones and Wireless Communications

摘要

For over twenty years our college has offered a summer enrichment program for high school students. The UNinitiates Introduction to Engineering (UNITE) program affords high school students the opportunity to take courses in writing, mathematics, computer science, persuasive speaking, and physics. Our unique program targets incoming high school freshmen from a diverse urban population. For several years the physics course was based on a traditional introductory college mechanics laboratory curriculum. This curriculum was not inquiry-based and provided only limited opportunities for students to construct their own knowledge by performing open-ended activities.