Summer Springboard
STEM: Exploring Engineering & Clean Energy
ON THE CAMPUS OF GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
DESIGN, BUILD AND POWER THE FUTURE
STEM: Exploring Engineering & Clean Energy
- Design, build, and test electric and solar-powered models through hands-on workshops and collaborative challenges.
- Conduct circuit experiments and analyze data to understand real-world engineering processes.
- Participate in team-based projects like solar car races and robotics competitions to develop problem-solving, leadership, and creativity.
- Explore robotics technologies and their applications in fields such as biomedicine and artificial intelligence.
- Apply concepts from physics, energy, and engineering to solve technical challenges and design innovations.
- Gain real-world experience through labs, design challenges, field visits in Washington, D.C., and panels with professionals in engineering, clean energy, and STEM careers.
Summer Springboard
STEM: Exploring Engineering & Clean Energy
About This Course
In this immersive STEM course, students design, build, and test electric and solar-powered models while exploring the fundamentals of physics, energy, and engineering. Through hands-on labs and interactive workshops, they perform circuit experiments, analyze data, and tackle real-world challenges. Collaborative projects such as solar car races and robotics competitions foster creativity, problem-solving, and leadership skills.
Students also delve into cutting-edge robotics technologies with applications in biomedicine and artificial intelligence. Field experiences and expert panels in Washington, D.C. provide valuable insight into professional engineering and clean energy careers. By engaging in practical design challenges and team-based innovation, students gain a deeper understanding of how engineers address complex global problems and explore potential pathways in STEM fields.
TOPICS YOU'LL EXPLORE
Hands-on Learning
Students participate in labs, design workshops, and collaborative challenges to construct electric and solar-powered models, test robotics systems, and analyze experimental data. Interactive exercises give students practical engineering experience while reinforcing physics, energy, and clean technology concepts.
Career Exploration
Through panels, field experiences, and project work, students explore pathways in engineering, robotics, clean energy, and related STEM fields. They gain insight into professional applications, and higher education opportunities while seeing how engineers solve complex real-world problems.
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“It was good experience. It had a good balance between academic courses and non-academic activities. It introduced real world problems and events to let the student take into consideration when choosing their major.”
-Noah B. | Alumni Student
Summer Springboard
STEM: Exploring Engineering & Clean Energy
Meet Your Instructor
Ekundayo Shittu is a Professor in GW’s Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering and directs the Systems Modeling Laboratory for Economic Decisions (SysMoLED), where he works with students and researchers to analyze firms’ technology investments using mathematical programming, transaction cost economics, and the resource-based view.
He co-edited Renewable Energy: International Perspectives on Sustainability, holds two patents improving patient safety through biomedical asset maintenance, and serves as Assistant Editor for Applied Energy. A KEEN Fellow, he has led four-week summer intensive spreadsheet modeling workshops for high school students to foster STEM interest. He holds a B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ilorin, an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from the American University in Cairo, and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from UMass Amherst.
EKUNDAYO SHITTU, PHD
“I really enjoyed it, I thought it was good mix of academics and activities and I really was able to connect with people especially in the free time so having that as an option was great. I thought it was a great mix and intro to college life which was very helpful.”
-Addy M. | Alumni Student
Summer Springboard
STEM: Exploring Engineering & Clean Energy
Dates & Tuition
| 2026 Dates |
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| Session 1: June 21 – July 3, 2026 |
Click here to enroll in this course using our online enrollment form.
| Tuition |
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| Residential Tuition: $5,698 |
| Commuter Tuition: $2,998 |
| Course Supplement: $250 |
Tuition Protection Plan: Allows for cancellation for any reason up until the day of the program.
| Location |
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| City: Georgetown Neighborhood |
| State: Washington, D.C. |
| Campus: Georgetown University |
Summer Springboard programs are not run by our campus partners (with the exception of Cal Poly, UW Foster and NYSID which are run in partnership with SSB). Universities and their affiliated departments and partners do not control and are not responsible or liable in any manner for any part of the Summer Springboard program.