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This 20-page report, provided by the University of California, Los Angeles, describes the design and construction of the underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV) created by the Bruin Underwater Robotics (BUR) team for the Explorer Class of the 2023 MATE ROV competition. MATE ROV is a global...

This 19-page report, provided by East Tennessee State University, describes the design and construction of the underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV) created by the Buccaneers team for the Explorer Class of the 2024 MATE ROV competition. MATE ROV is a global competition that challenges STEM...

This website from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College features an animation of a buck converter. A buck converter is a step-down DC to DC converter. The design is similar to the step-up boost converter, and like the boost converter it is a switched-mode power supply that uses two...

This video, provided by Columbia Gorge Community College, is the first part of a two part application exercise in making "an inexpensive PLC trainer board to introduce PLC programming and demonstrate various PLC functions." An EATON Easy Intelligent Relay is used in this exercise. The training board...

This video, provided by Columbia Gorge Community College, is the second part of a two part application exercise in making "an inexpensive PLC trainer board to introduce PLC programming and demonstrate various PLC functions." An EATON Easy Intelligent Relay is used in this exercise. The training...

This video, provided by Columbia Gorge Community College, is the first part of a two part application exercise in making "an inexpensive PLC trainer board to introduce PLC programming and demonstrate various PLC functions." The TECO SG2 10HRA PLR is used in this exercise. The training board can be...

This video, provided by Columbia Gorge Community College, is the second part of a two part application exercise on making "an inexpensive PLC trainer board to introduce PLC programming and demonstrate various PLC functions." The TECO SG2 10HRA PLR is used in this exercise. The training board can be...

This slide deck, from the Advanced Manufacturing and Prototyping Integrated to Unlock Potential (AMP-IT-UP) project, was presented at the Georgia Science Teachers Association Annual Conference in February, 2016. This presentation discusses building science partnerships in classrooms, schools, school...

This 59 page report, sponsored by California Energy Commission Pubic Interest Energy Research (PIER), provides a comprehensive overview of the practice of commissioning as it pertains to energy performance in buildings. Commissioning is a type of risk management used to assess "access, safety,...

This paper, by scholars at Purdue University in building construction management and computer graphics technology, discusses building information modeling (BIM) and its incorporation into several academic departments at Purdue. The paper discusses integration of BIM in these departments: Computer...