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Program Description: The Building Automation Systems Technician program at Georgia Piedmont Technical College prepares students to enter the building automation industry with skills to market, install, design, service, and troubleshoot complex commercial control systems. After completing the...

Program Description: The Building Automation Systems Technician program at Georgia Piedmont Technical College prepares students to enter the building automation industry with skills to market, install, design, service, and troubleshoot complex commercial control systems. After completing the...

This collection from the Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technological Education Resource Center (CREATE) is composed of teaching materials that highlight a lesson on building a passive solar home. Home energy load profile and variables that affect it are highlighted. The collection is composed...

This collection includes resources from the Building Automation Systems (BAS) program at Georgia Pedmont Technical College (GPTC). These resources include a 33-page guide and six program development documents from the B.E.S.T. Center 2013 Winter Workshop. This program prepares students for a career...

The Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC) Sustainable Energy Education & Training (SEET) provides this presentation for high school and community college instructors on developing curricula in the sustainable building industry. The document was part of a workshop held during...

This lesson, developed by Martha Muir, guides students through a simulation of some of the steps and challenges in isolating uranium, and then asks them to compare the quantity of energy obtained from uranium to the amount of energy obtained from coal. Upon completion of the lesson, students should...

This learning activity will provide a useful technique for students to learn casting concepts. The class will be allowed a hands-on experience with casting. Students will make their own fishing sinkers. The lesson plan document includes step by step instructions for the lesson along with...

This lab, presented by the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, covers the concept of chemical reactions. Students will learn about "the reactions involved in catalytic converters and the importance of nanocatalysts in the reactions." Teacher Preparation Guides, Student Guides, and...

This lab sequence guides students through the process of converting plant-based fuel sources (biomass) first into sugars then ethanol. "As biomass samples are pretreated, enzymatically digested, and fermented, students use glucose meters and ethanol probes to measure the key products of this...

This lesson, presented by the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, covers the diffraction behavior of light waves. Students will discover how CDs and DVDs contain regularly spaced micrometer sized features that act like diffraction grating. Using these items rather than commercially...