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The Florida Advanced Technological Education Center offers this “learning challenge” to middle schoolers, challenging them to design a tour bus. There are teacher materials offered, such as a lesson plan and a PowerPoint presentation; as well as student materials that include a student’s guide,...

Published by the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, this activity allows students to design their own Rube Goldberg device which incorporates shape memory alloys. The goals of the lesson are to "encourage students to compare and contrast science and technology; experimental design...

Curriculum Description: This collection includes all components of the Spring 2021 Integrated Design Thinking curriculum developed by NorthWest Arkansas Community College (NWACC). Design Thinking begins as a framework for discovering and developing solutions that can be applied to a variety of...

This slide deck, from the Advanced Manufacturing and Prototyping Integrated to Unlock Potential (AMP-IT-UP) project, was presented at the Griffin Regional Educational Service Agency 2nd Annual Drive-In STEM Conference in November, 2015. This presentation discusses the Rigor and Relevance Scale, the...

Course Description: This course was developed by Kettering University and the Center for Advanced Automotive Technology (CAAT). Design with Aluminum is an introductory course focusing on the basics of engineering design, properties, manufacturing processes, design aspects, and design guidelines...

This module is derived from the course “Intro to Mechatronics” at Lawrence Technological University and was developed through seed funding from the Center for Advanced Automotive Technology (CAAT). This module contains a PowerPoint presentation and LabVIEW simulation file. In the presentation the...

This lesson, presented by the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, focuses on diagnostic methods of investigation looking at the issue of HIV/AIDS. In this activity, students will explore "the societal impacts of engineering and science, specifically as it relates to the AIDS epidemic...

This brief interactive activity, by the Electromechanical Digital Library and Wisconsin Technical College System faculty, introduces digital circuit devices, their applications as decision or memory devices, and asks three review questions. This is an excellent resource, as are the others in the...

This open source book on WikiBooks provides an introduction to Digital Circuits. This book focuses heavily on the concepts of discrete math but previous knowledge of the subject is not required; all necessary concepts are covered in the text. Knowledge of basic electrical principles such as current,...

Description: The materials for this FPGA Beer Module lab activity are provided by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC). The goal of this lab is to '"earn the use of Spartan 3E FPGA development board from Xilinx and how to create the hardware connections between the development board...