Signal processing outreach at the U.S. Naval Academy

This paper describes the US Naval Academy's outreach program called Summer Seminar, which offers the opportunity for high school seniors to participate in one of three six-day sessions to experience life as a midshipman, both academically and otherwise. This paper focuses on the workshop on electrical engineering in 2005, wherein approximately 360 of the total 1,855 high school students attended. The electrical engineering workshop began with an introduction to the fundamentals of electrical theory and led to several contemporary signal processing examples. These included digitized music and state-of-the-art biometric systems. The paper briefly describes each individual activities that incorporate active learning in the electrical engineering workshop.