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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...

This 19-page report, provided by East Tennessee State University, describes the design and construction of the underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV) created by the Buccaneers team for the Explorer Class of the 2024 MATE ROV competition. MATE ROV is a global competition that challenges STEM...

Working with a material 10 times lighter than steel -- but 250 times stronger -- would be a dream come true for any engineer. If this material also had amazing properties that made it highly conductive of heat and electricity, it would start to sound like something out of a science fiction novel....

This webinar from the National CyberWatch Center is part of a series of webinars on cybersecurity. In the webinar, Jennifer Oddo from IBM discusses the cybersecurity workforce, Covid-19's effects on the cybersecurity industry, competency-based apprenticeships in cybersecurity, grant funding and wage...

This video, from the National Cybersecurity Training and Education (NCyTE) Center, provides information on developing cybersecurity clinics. In a cybersecurity clinic, students are trained in cybersecurity and are partnered with organizations that lack the resources to have robust information...

This video, from the 2021 Esri Education Summit, covers building and sustaining GIS education communities. This session discussed how institutions support scholars with different levels of technical skill and domain expertise, and what happens when a pandemic disrupts a successful support...

This 59 page report, sponsored by California Energy Commission Pubic Interest Energy Research (PIER), provides a comprehensive overview of the practice of commissioning as it pertains to energy performance in buildings. Commissioning is a type of risk management used to assess "access, safety,...

This website provides information designed to help building industry professionals and policy makers to improve environmental performance and reduce the adverse impacts of buildings. It print and electronic resources to help industry professionals to take an integrated design approach that will...

This paper, by scholars at Purdue University in building construction management and computer graphics technology, discusses building information modeling (BIM) and its incorporation into several academic departments at Purdue. The paper discusses integration of BIM in these departments: Computer...

This webinar is presented by Mark Hanson and is based on Hanson's book The Inevitable Solar School: Building the Sustainable Schools of the Future, Today. During the webinar, Hanson "describes solar schools at or approaching zero energy that are being built at construction costs equal to or below...