July 9-12 & July 16-19, 2006

Take Advantage of a UNIQUE Opportunity for High School Juniors Who Excel in Math & Science

Explore Your Career Options

Expand Your Learning Abilities

If you are a high school junior who is an excellent math and science student, we would like to interest you in a unique summer experience designed to help you expand your academic ability, and explore the option of studying engineering when you go to college. For over 36 years more than 3,500 students have benefited from this program.

The Consider Engineering program is a challenging and rewarding opportunity to apply principles you have learned in high school to engineering problems. You will learn and have fun as one of 60 students who will be selected competitively to spend four days in Orono at the University of Maine with all program costs being paid by The University of Maine Pulp and Paper Foundation. The program will enroll students from throughout Maine and other states as well. It will build a base upon which to make college and career decisions.

Those who are chosen to participate in our Summer Consider Engineering program will benefit from a four-day, full campus experience by learning what engineers do. This experience will help students prepare for advanced education choices and for future career choices. In addition, students will meet new friends who operate and work at the same level. Many of these new friendships are maintained for a lifetime.

Peter A. Duncan

Executive Director

Pulp & Paper Foundation

Benefits of Participating

• MEET college professors of engineering

• FIND OUT how engineering is like/different from science

• EXPLORE the excitement of engineering design in a construction competition

• TOUR a Maine paper manufacturing facility to see how wood is converted to pulp and then to paper by applying engineering methods

• LEARN what personal values are most important to you in making your career choice

• ENJOY working with other gifted students who, like you, are exploring their interests and capabilities

• DISCUSS engineering careers with practicing professionals

• TALK with University of Maine engineering students about college and job experiences

• DISCOVER time management demands of college life while participating in challenging project and fun activities with fellow participants

• EXPERIENCE four days of campus life

Program Activities

The four-day program offers nearly two dozen activities balancing personal values exploration with engineering experiments, discussion with University staff, students and industrially employed engineers, and problem solving challenges. You can gain the satisfaction of succeeding at projects designed to simulate your intuition and reason. Program participants work both independently and cooperatively to learn skills and then to apply them to real life problems.

Students realize considerable personal satisfaction from meeting challenges greater than those they have typically experienced.

"The Consider Engineering program allowed me to use my math and science skills and to become familiar with UMaine campus all while having fun. As an out-of-state student, I was able to establish connections with students and professors that made entering a college so far from home a little easier. The program not only made me feel that engineering is right for me, but also gave me the background information I needed to select a field. Excellent program!"

- a current Scholarship Recipient

"The Pulp and Paper Consider Engineering Program was one of the main factors that led me to pursue a degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Maine. The program gave me a chance to learn about all fields of engineering while performing hands-on experiments and making lasting friendships. I was able to meet and work with some of the professors that I now encounter on a daily basis. I would definitely suggest the program to anyone that is considering the field of engineering. It opened my eyes to what the field of engineering really has to offer."

- a current Scholarship Recipient

Program Faculty

The faculty includes University professors and engineering graduate students. You will also meet current undergraduate students and recent graduates from several engineering disciplines. You can ask them about their skills, job interests, and engineering career opportunities.

Housing and Meals

Housing will be provided in University residence halls with two students sharing each room. Students will eat meals in a University dining hall beginning with Sunday dinner and ending with Wednesday breakfast. Parents are invited to join the students for lunch at the Soderberg Center at Jenness Hall on Wednesday at the close of the program.

Admission Criteria

Admission will be offered on a competitive basis to students who have completed a three-year college prep level program in both mathematics and science. In addition, successful applicants will have distinguished themselves by having been selected to receive academic honors such as National Honor Society, Science Fair Winner, participant in local program for gifted and talented students, or some similar recognition earned as a high school student. Successful applicants also should demonstrate a well-rounded high school experience by participating in extra-curricular or community activities, and possessing exceptional communication and leadership skills. The application must be returned by May 1, 2006. Admission decisions will be announced on or before May 31, 2006.

The Consider Engineering program gives you an opportunity to experience what it would be like to be an engineering student. From lectures and labs to life in the dorms you'll get a real taste for college life. Students learn first-hand the challenge of trying to complete several group projects while also making new friends. Students walk away knowing if engineering is the right college major for them.

- Professor John Hwalek

UMaine Chemical & Biological Engineering