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The Illinois Essential Employment Skill Framework and Self-Assessment is a 20-page document "designed to define and clarify essential employability skills and provide a standard for the state of Illinois." The framework was created by Illinois Community College Board and the Illinois Dept. of...

This 14-page paper, published by the American Society for Engineering Education, was presented at the 2018 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. The paper discusses the Solar Photovoltaic Institute for STEM Educators and the impacts the Institute had on the teaching practices of participants. The...

This 17-page resource is provided by the Center for Advanced Automotive Technology (CAAT) and is available free for download. This resource discusses a funded project that aims to develop an integrated learning system for HEV technology. World competition and stringent United States fuel economy...

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 research briefing paper from Wayne Welch and Liesel Ritchie, produced as part of the DECA project, takes a look at the sustainability of NSF's Advanced Technological Education Program. This report summarizes the research done via a peer-generated Likert survey of current and past Principal...

This paper, by Bernard Zubrowski, with the Education Development Center, Inc., covers the integration of technology into elementary and middle school science education. Design engineering, as an approach, is discussed, as well as an example pedagogical model using an exercise in model windmills. 

This 38-page paper was presented at the 2020 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and discusses the Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technological Education (CREATE) project. CREATE aimed to administer an Energy Storage Project with the overarching goal of advancing the...

This article, published by the Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, provides information about a faculty study abroad program. In 2019, the NSF-ATE CREATE Energy Education Center took a group of renewable energy educators to Germany to study innovations in renewable energy and energy...

This presentation and accompanying paper was prepared for the Workshop on Assessment of 21st Century Skills, held in January 2011. This presentation from three members of the University of Central Florida's Cognitive Science Department focuses on defining interpersonal skills, why they are...

This resource helps to teach students how to interpret TI or other component manufacturer's data sheets. It is quite extensive, mainly covering the TI Logic Data Sheet. Illustrative material is also included. The document may be downloaded as a PDF.