Industry, academia, and parents are beginning to call for children to be exposed to more engineering and technology in their formative high school years. In response to this need, the Infinity Project has developed an innovative new modern engineering curriculum designed specifically for high school students.

It is Relevant: The Infinity Engineering and Technology curriculum has been constructed to engage students in the most important, relevant, and interesting ideas of modern engineering and technology in the information and communications age. Students learn and design new Internet technologies involving images, video, and audio and learn to analyze and understand how digital information is collected, stored, processed, and moved.

It is Hands-On! The curriculum is significantly enhanced by hands-on experiments that are included with the course materials. The lab equipment produced by the Infinity Project is based on new Digital Signal Processing technology and has been made available by our industrial partners as the Infinity Technology Kit. This very low cost kit converts standard PCs into a modern engineering design platform and allows instructors to clearly demonstrate engineering design in the digital era.

Designed by Experts: The team of curriculum designers and advisors includes leaders in engineering research and education drawn from academia, industry, and government. This group contains five past Presidents of major technical societies, two Presidents and past Presidents of universities, one of the Department of Defense's leaders in technology, science, and engineering, and two engineering Department Chairs.

Student Prerequisites: The Infinity engineering curriculum has been designed for students who have completed mathematics through a second course in algebra (Algebra II), and who have had a least one laboratory science course. This reasonable prerequisite will allow relatively young students to see first hand the applications of math and science to engineering and technology early enough in their studies to allow them to pursue more advanced courses in high school, to properly prepare themselves for university study, and to begin to consider future careers in technology.

Teacher Prerequisites: Math and science teachers with good classroom experience, a working knowledge of computers and software, and a willingness to learn new subject matter should have little problem mastering the curriculum. Extensive teacher training by the Infinity Project supports teacher development through week-long summer institutes and on-line help.

Acquiring the Curriculum Textbook: Our curriculum has been published as a textbook by Prentice Hall. The current book title is Engineering Our Digital Future, ISBN: ISBN: 0-13-184828-3. You can acquire the book for your class by contacting the customer service group at 1-800-848-9500 (High School) or 1-800-929-0579 (University). Additional questions regarding the textbook should be addressed to tom_robbins@prenhall.com