Elings Center For Engineering Education Opens!

Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy students are now attending classes in the state-of-the-art, 12,000 square foot Elings Center for Engineering Education (ECEE). Click here for a look inside this fabulous educational facility!

Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy

The Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy at Dos Pueblos High School, Goleta, CA, was founded in 2002 by physics teacher Amir Abo-Shaeer.

The Academy:

• Is a highly-competitive school-within-a-school at Dos Pueblos High School.
• Has recently expanded to enroll 100 freshmen per year, from the entire Santa Barbara community, for an ultimate total of 400 students.
• Is a four-year integrated course of study in physics, computer science and engineering design.
• Culminates in robotics class in senior year, in which the students design and build a robot to compete on the national stage.
• Enrolls an approximately equal number of female students as male students.
• Is run as a small business by the senior students, who learn skills for their future success.
• Includes outreach and service-based learning to younger students, helping to boost their interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).

The combination of academics, project-based technical experience and teamwork gives students the competitive edge and true mastery of the skills necessary to enter the workforce and pursue post-secondary education.

The Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy Foundation is a charitable organization whose purpose is to support the Academy's mission by providing fund-raising resources, long term direction, and enabling systems and structures.