From the Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education (CIESE), this website features Square of Life, "an Internet-based project in which students will investigate their local environment and share that information with other students from around the country and the world." The project is recommended for elementary school students, but allows participants of all ages. Square of Life is a...

The National Engineers Week Future City Competition provides “a fun and exciting educational engineering program for seventh- and eighth-grade students that combines a stimulating engineering challenge with a ‘hands-on’ application to present their vision of a city of the future.” The competition is intended to foster engineering skills, such as teamwork, communication and problem solving skills,...

This incredibly comprehensive site offers 24 free online modules that explain a wide variety of concepts within electrical engineering. Each module is presented in a style similar to that of a textbook, with detailed explanations of concepts, discussions of underlying theory, and practice problems with solutions. Topics include electromagnetics, digital computers and logic, fiber optics, and many...

The Engineering Design Challenges website is a collaborative project among NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center Education Programs Department, Dryden Flight Research Center Education Programs Office, Ames Research Center, and TERC. The program is intended to connect students with "the challenges faced by NASA engineers as they design the next generation of aerospace vehicles." The carefully...

Developed by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), the EngineeringK12 Center provides resources for grade school students, parents, and teachers that promote the discipline. Most of the site's content is found in the Readings section, where users can browse articles from the ASEE Prism magazine and the Journal of Engineering Education, as well as papers presented at the ASEE...