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This 40-page consultant report from the California Energy Commission provides tools and guidelines for installers ensure that residential photovoltaic power systems are properly specified and installed, resulting in a system that operates to its design potential. This document sets out key criteria...

This 20-page paper, provided by the American Society for Engineering Education discusses a longitudinal study conducted at North Carolina State University. During this study, a cohort of students took five chemical engineering courses taught by the same instructor in five consecutive semesters. "...

This paper, from Richard M. Felder and E. Jacquelin Dietz of North Carolina State University, and Gary Felder of Stanford University, covers a longitudinal study of chemical engineering students taught using different experimental methods, and how this affects performance and retention. The methods,...

This 10-page report, provided by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is a longitudinal study on the retention of women in science and engineering. This report covers the sixth year of the study in which the focus is on six cohorts of one hundred students each. The objectives are...

This article, which originally appeared in the International Journal of Engineering Education, describes the NSF-sponsored Southeastern University and College Coalition for Engineering Education (SUCCEED) faculty development program and briefly reviews the events in engineering education that led to...

These resources, made available by the Center for Nanotechnology Education (Nano-Link), provide guidance for educational institutions interested in developing an undergraduate research (UGR) model. UGR is defined as "an effective tool for preparing undergraduate students for future careers," by...

This 15-page article, published by Frontiers in Psychology, discusses a study on women STEM college students. This study "explored the relationship between the intent to transfer upward and a set of motivational, contextual, and socio-demographic background factors among 696 female students...

This paper, published by the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, discusses how the authors used computer modeling to predict trends in the absorption and release of methane in Alaskan soils, taking into account the effects that predicted climate change might have on...

This paper, by Richard E. Satchwell and William E. Duggar, Jr., from the Technology for All Americans Project in Blacksburg, Virginia, introduces their project and the results consensus building activities that they conducted at technology education meetings around the United States. Technology...

This paper was developed by Dr. Yeh, Dr. Liao, and Joe Petrosky from the Center for Advanced Automotive Technology (CAAT) and was presented at the 120th American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition on June 24, 2013. The objective of the paper is to review the...