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This page presents the publications of the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center for Manufacturing (FL-ATE), including journal articles, online resources, and curriculum resources from 2006 to the present. Visitors will find materials on Best Practices for Student Robotics Camps,...

This white paper, prepared by Dr. Mike Cooke, surveys the coming changes and looks at how III-V quantum dots offer the prospect of fast non-volatile computer memory devices. The paper includes sections on Flash Storage, Nanocrystals, Enter III-Vs and quantum dots, and References.

This best practices guide from FLATE, the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center of Excellence, offers guidance in creating and utilizing strategic communication tools to reach audiences around ATE programs and initiatives. The 20 page document describes the outreach strategies used...

This resource, provided by DeafTEC provides "employers like you with resources you can use to attract, interview, and hire deaf and hard-of-hearing employees, and successfully integrate them into your workplace." In this section, several pages which cover information on hiring deaf and...

This paper, published in Advances in Digital Forensics VII, discusses the unique challenges that plug computers pose to evidence recovery operations during criminal investigations. Plug computers are a cross between an embedded device (such as a smart phone) and a traditional computer. The...

This best practices guide from FLATE, the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center of Excellence, provides information and tools for starting and sustaining school-industry partnerships to develop Florida's manufacturing workforce. The 28 page document includes two major sections: Partnership...

This article from SPIE describes how dielectric breakdown and wet etching may provide a method of fabricating 3D nano- and microscale channels inside transparent dielectric materials. The article includes several graphics which help to illustrate the concept.

This tutorial is provided by National Instruments and introduces users to frequency modulation (FM). "Frequency modulation (FM) is a form of modulation in which changes in the carrier wave frequency correspond directly to changes in the baseband signal." This tutorial includes a table of contents...

This paper, from Roger Bohn at the University of California, San Diego, "models knowledge about manufacturing methods as a directed graph of cause-effect relationships." The paper covers changes in knowledge over time, including the shift from art to science in technical and manufacturing knowledge.

This page, from the The Center for Innovative Research in Cyberlearning (CIRCL), offers information on the emerging field of games-based learning and the potential of computer games and virtual reality to enhance classroom instruction. A topic overview looks at the varying use of games in this...