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Military Installations - The Corps is responsible for work at 181 Army installations and 71 Air Force installations located in the United States and over 90 other countries. Corps employees, both Civilian and Soldiers, support warfighting wherever the military needs facilities and protection or repair of vital infrastructure. The Corps is also responsible for environmental, hazardous/toxic waste, and radiological cleanups in formerly used military sites around the world.
Public Installations - The Corps provides technical support and design/construction expertise to 60 federal agencies (non-Department of Defense). The Corps works with its partners to find innovative and effective solutions to the nation's engineering challenges.
Description: Today's young engineers may be tomorrow's Corps employee. Move your mouse over the images in the clubhouse to find hundreds of exciting games, activities and science experiments. Check out the "Science and Engineering Room" for experiments and activities that can be done in the classroom.
Description: Try out this multiple choice quiz and your general knowledge of engineering. Better yet, see if you score as well as your kids! Looking for some questions to try on high school students? They'll know more of these than you would expect.
Title: West Point Bridge Design Contest - The U.S. Military Academy at West Point
Description: The United States Military Academy offers an annual bridge design contest. The purpose of the contest is to provide middle school and high school students with a realistic, engaging introduction to engineering. West Point provides this contest as a service to education and as a tribute to the academy's 200 years of service to the United States. Learn about engineering through a realistic, hands-on computer model to design a truss bridge. You can also have some fun pitting your problem-solving skills against those of other virtual bridge designers around the globe.
Title: "Brick and Bungee" Earthquake Simulation Machine
Description: This Web site details the model made by Ross Stein and demonstrated most recently at the May 2000 U.S. Geological Survey open house by the Earthquake Hazards Team. The Web site has been constructed due to the great public interest shown at the open house, particularly by teachers. This Web site includes an animation and photographs of the model 'in action', a lengthy model description and associated diagrams. It also includes technical specifications to aid those wishing to build their own model.
Title: To Get to the Other Side - Designing Bridges
Description: To design bridges, civil engineers integrate the natural science phenomena of balance and motion. Students explore the materials that bridges are made of and why bridges are shaped differently (beam, arch and suspension bridges). Students learn how to design, construct and test their own bridges.
Description: What happens to filled land when an earthquake shakes it up? Try this simple experiment to see. Want to know more? Try this Web site (http://www.ce.washington.edu/~liquefaction/html/main.html) for the science behind the experiment and real world examples.
