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This is a course description for Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) course 6.033, Computer System Engineering.  It covers topics on the engineering of computer software and hardware systems, such as: techniques for controlling complexity; strong modularity using client-server design,...

Authors Mario Simoni, Marc Herniter and Bruce Ferguson of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology present their work in developing electronics concept inventory (ECI) exam for basic electronic circuits.  "Concept inventory exams are standardized tests that have been carefully designed to point out the...

This webpage, created by the Ecological Society of America, details a framework for using continental-scale data in undergraduate ecology teaching and learning. An understanding of external drivers, ecological responses, human behaviors, and the "mediating interactions between external drivers and...

This lecture from the iBioSeminars project is presented by David Botstein from Princeton University. It presents experiments done in Botstein's lab studying, in yeast, the coordination of growth rate, stress response, metabolism and cell division. Using innovative methods to color code and cluster...

This paper, by Theodore Lewis, Professor in Industrial Education at the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul, covers methods and approaches to technology curriculum. These methods are "content, which focuses upon conceptual structure, and process, which...

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is an international agreement between 183 governments. Its aim is to "ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival." There is a species data base,...

This video is part of the 2020 SciTech Lecture Series from Forsyth Technical Community College. This series of lectures is held every year and covers an array of science and technology topics. This lecture features Daniel J.C. Herr, the chair of the Nanoscience Department at the Joint School of...

This paper, from Richard M. Felder, the Hoechst Celanese Professor of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University, cover cooperative learning in engineering courses. Cooperative learning is explained, as well as a chronology of its implementation by the author, and an summative...

This 25-page paper from Fred Peskoff is a report on a study used to evaluate the relationship between college students' level of mathematics anxiety and the strategies employed to cope with it. The study found that low mathematics anxiety students tend to utilize a number of "coping strategies" more...

This 22-page report describes the design and construction of the underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV) created by the Coral Crusaders team for the Ranger Class of the 2023 MATE ROV competition. MATE ROV is a global competition that challenges STEM students to build underwater ROVs to complete...