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This poster, from the National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology, and Science, provides information on elements of college culture that promote women's interest in engineering. The poster displays the results of a National Science Foundation study identifying "four common factors across...

The NCSR Pictorial Series of presentations are designed to provide faculty, teachers and other natural resource professionals with an informal PowerPoint presentation on selected environmental settings. The presentations consist of pictures of the natural environment and feature plants, animals and...

Completed in 2010, this competency model for Advanced Manufacturing was developed by a group of leading industry organizations gathered by the Employment and Training Administration (ETA). The pyramid model includes six levels of competencies: Personal Effectiveness, Academic, Workplace,...

These slides, from the Technological Education Pathways Partnership (TEPP), lead students in an activity to take apart a standard clock radio to explore how its components function. Topics covered include the primary and secondary voltage of the power supply, the clock function of the device, and...

This not-for-profit, North Carolina community-based effort promotes farmland protection and sustainable production systems through research, development, policy support and promotion.  Additionally, this website provided by Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP), connects local growers...

Part of MIT's innovative OpenCourseWare Project that provides materials from MIT classes to the public on the web, this site describes the course Architectural Design, Level II: Material Essesnce: The Glass House.  Focusing on the topic of compensation for the energy transfer characteristics of...

This reference sheet, presented by the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network provides a valuable list biology reference material for high school students in the life sciences. Definition of terms, diagrams, abbreviations, mathematical notations, and other useful information is provided in...

This page from Bio-Link's career website provides alumni profiles, which feature interviews with community college grads currently working in various biotech careers. Interviews highlight the work of the grad and a typical day on the job. Profiles vary from highlighting the day of a biotechnology...

This website from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College features an animation of a buck converter. A buck converter is a step-down DC to DC converter. The design is similar to the step-up boost converter, and like the boost converter it is a switched-mode power supply that uses two...

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...