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This "HVAC & Building Technician Credentialing" webinar from Laney College's Environmental Control Technology department was presented on April 13, 2012. The webinar discusses professional certifications for HVAC and building technicians. Some topics include why certifications are important,...

The ATETV project delivers web-based videos to connect students to careers in advanced technology. This episode of ATETV focuses on just how much input community colleges receive from industry. The first part of the video, Making Sense of What You Are Learning, looks at electrical engineering...

This presentation, provided by the Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Center, is from the BEST Center's 2023 Annual Institute. This presentation is about the Ecoblock research project and "... developing a prototype EcoBlock in order to demonstrate the social, legal, financial and...

While the concept of safety in risk-sensitive industries such as aviation is familiar, organizations still struggle to define and practice effective safety principles on a daily basis, given the dynamic and inherent nature of aviation hazards. This has given rise to the concept of a systems approach...

This paper by P.J. Shull, of the Department of Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, covers the use of hands-on laboratory experiments in engineering mathematics education. The study includes experiment procedures, results, and a conclusion.

This presentation, provided by the Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Center, is from the BEST Center's 2022 Annual Institute. During the presentation, Marco Pitoni, research scientist at Lawrence Berkley National Lab, discusses "new research and industry efforts to bring new...

This 14-page journal article, made available by SpringerOpen, discusses the results of a study on student perceptions of a curriculum change to an undergraduate mechanical engineering course in 2015 and 2016. The updated curriculum "borrows from content and pedagogy traditionally employed in...

This presentation, provided by the Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Center, is from the BEST Center's 2022 Annual Institute. During the presentation, William Bahnfleth, professor of architectural engineering at Pennsylvania State University, provides a detailed analysis of air...

This 4-page syllabus, published by Heartland Community College (HCC), provides information about the Industrial and Building Electricity course taught at HCC. Throughout the course, students "learn about function and practice of industrial controls in fluid power, mechanical, and/or electrical...

Program Description: The Process Operations program curriculum is provided by Itasca Community College (ICC) and was created utilizing existing ICC course curriculum where possible, e.g., industrial math, technical writing, physics, etc. The Process Operations curriculum was created with emphasis ...