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This 2-page lab, from Pennsylvania State University, provides an overview of the values, gauges, and components of a thermal evaporator. The lab also shows how metal is deposited using a Cooke Thermal Evaporator. Students will need to view the linked video to answer the 17 questions that are...

This 4-page lab activity, from the Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge Resource Center (NACK Center), provides an overview and demonstration of the procedures necessary to perform contact lithography. Sections of the lab include Objective, Background, Experiment, and Questions. The...

In this video, published by Erie Community College, physics professor Elena Brewer conducts the pump-down process on a Rough Vacuum System Trainer (RVET) with an empty chamber and no leaks. Throughout the pump-down process, learners will document how long it takes for the atmospheric pressure in the...

This resource includes a 199-page student laboratory manual and 244-page instructor guide. The lab manual provides assignments and labs corresponding to concepts found in the Introduction to Vacuum Technology E-book. Each activity unit includes a summary of learning activities, a pre-lab assignment,...

​​​​​This collection of resources, from the Cybersecurity Education for Advanced Manufacturing Organizations project, is a part of the Intrusion Detection System/Intrusion Prevention System (IDS/IPS) Scenario. This scenario is a training module that focuses on using IDS/IPS to monitor and protect...

This 4-page lab guide, created by the Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge Support (NACK) Center at Pennsylvania State University, is for a laboratory activity where students use an ion implanation simulation software to demonstrate the effects of ion implantation. Throughout the lab,...

This lab, presented by the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, introduces students to the difficulty to of measuring at the nanoscale. Accuracy and precision are the most important principles or measuring at such a small scale, and with the growing demand for nanotechnology careers,...

This 3-page learning activity, from the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC), allows students to use lab analysis and problem solving to investigate issues surrounding water quality. Using prepared samples, each student tests for contaminants, removes the contaminant, and...

This lab document, from the Renewable Energy Systems Training (REST) Laboratory Development and Workforce Training project, is related to an in-person K-12 Workshop held in 2022. This document includes images of all the related workshop experiments. The following experiments were conducted: Battery...

This lab, presented by the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, covers the concept of material properties. During this lab, students will learn about microfluidics and how "with one drop of liquid sample, small devices and channels can be used with nanoparticles for sensitive...