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In this video adapted from Pathways to Technology, you’ll meet Tyrone Walker, who keeps the enormous machines at a Tupperware factory running 24/7/365. Tyrone is a process maintenance engineer. This means he inspects all the parts of a machine’s electronics system looking for problems, from the...

In this video excerpted from Pathways to Technology, learn about process technology and career opportunities in this field. Process refers to the steps that chemicals go through to become products, like gasoline or medicine. Process technology is used in just about every manufacturing industry, from...

Project SHINE (Shaping High-quality Integrated Nebraska Education) provides a variety of materials used to plan, host, and evaluate an academic day camp for 9^th and 10^th grade students; this camp was entitled Project SHINE-Mission: Impossible. Included in this zip file are sample agendas,...

In this interview, published by the Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Center, Laney College Carpentry Department Chair Carl Seelbach gives an overview of the two-year carpentry program at Laney College.  The interview begins with a discussion of the career experiences, from an...

This resource is a documentary film about the history of the cordage industry from ancient technologies through the industrial revolution, trustbusting, and globalization. The one-hour DVD, Ropewalk: A Cordage Engineer's Journey Through History, is free for schools, libraries, museums. Produced by...

The Shipbuilders Council of America (SCA) is the national trade association representing the U.S. shipyard industry. SCA members constitute the shipyard industrial base that builds, repairs, maintains and modernizes Navy ships and craft, U.S. Coast Guard vessels of all sizes, as well as vessels for...

This 40-minute video on semiconductor manufacturing shows how microchips are made and how they work in electronic products. The video provides an overview of front-end manufacturing, from crystal growth through design, to the fabrication process of CMOS integrated circuits. The video includes...

This page, from Advance CTE, covers the National Career Clusters Framework for manufacturing. An organizing tool for curriculum design and instruction, the Career Clusters Framework provides a structure for essential knowledge and skills for 16 career pathways in technical education. This...

Sustainable Sources is a website that provides information for green builders and other individuals interested in green building. Their site includes a directory of green building professionals, information on greenbuilt homes that are on the market, pertinent events, books and articles, online...

This paper, by John R. Patton of the Home Depot and Indiana State University, covers the topic of task diminishment in construction work. Task diminishment is described as sub-optimal execution that fails to conform to a task requirement. The paper offers a literature review of the topic, as well as...