Engineering Pre-College Programs
The College of Engineering, Physics, and Computing offers two engineering summer institutes: the Engineering New Frontiers Institute, which offers content in each of the engineering disciplines (biomedical, mechanical, electrical, civil, and computer science); and the Computational Biosciences Institute.
Limited scholarships are available to admitted students.
Engineering New Frontiers Institute
Dates: July 19 to July 24, 2026
Cost: $1,800
This experience for high school students is a weeklong, residential academic summer course for high schoolers, intended for students entering junior and senior years. The Institute features modern laboratory exercises, engineering design workshops, coding boot camps, and prototyping work taught by expert faculty, as well as entertainment, cultural, and technical experiences in the Washington, D.C. area.
For more information, visit the Summer Sessions website: Engineering New Frontiers Institute - Summer Sessions
Computational Biosciences Institute
This institute will not be offered in Summer 2026.
This experience is for rising high school juniors and seniors interested in computer science and biomedical engineering. It is a 10-day residential, graded academic summer course. The Institute features intensive computer science coding and programming instruction with real biomedical imaging and other datasets, using the scientific programming software Matlab. Transfer credit depends on each institution's evaluation, but the course is equivalent to a first year, 3-credit computer science course that is required in all accredited engineering undergraduate programs. The course is taught by faculty with research expertise in biomedical imaging and computational biosciences.