Join STEM for this Speaker Series Event

SIT-SIMS
Situation Simulations

One Morning, Two Hands-On Workshops

Saturday, April 14

Des Plaines Campus ¨ Room 1610

Check in: 8:45 a.m.
Session 1: 9-10 a.m.

Session 2: 10:15-11:15 a.m.

Choose from these six options:

Can you Take the Heat?
Theodore Gotis, Associate Professor of Physics
Ted Bukowski, Research and Development Laboratory Supervisor, Weber Stephen Products LLC
Understanding heat transfer is important to modern technology and energy savings in our new green economy. In this module students learn the basics of heat transfer, see how it applies to their own backyard BBQ, and engage in their own heat transfer project.

Circuit Design
Majid Ghadiri, Professor and Chair, Electronics and Computer Technologies
Students use digital electronics circuitry to design, build, and test a model solar-powered vehicle.

Designing a House
William Huchting, Coordinator, Architecture
Students will use a computer software to design a house.

Fun with Computer Science Games
Rajmonda Sulo Cáceres, Graduate Assistant, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
Habiba, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
Explore topics in computer science including sorting algorithms and text mining.

Water Quality
Michelle Groves, Instructor of Environmental Science
Students will take water samples and conduct tests on the quality of the samples.

What's in my Food?
Elizabeth Kershisnik, Associate Professor of Chemistry 

Students will use reverse and simulated normal phase chromatography to separate food dyes from several food products.

This event is free, however registration is required. Register online or contact Gloria Liu at glorial@oakton.edu or 847.635.1738 with your top three workshop choices (you will be assigned to two).  

Sponsored by the Center for Promoting STEM and Oakton Student Government.