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This video, provided by Columbia Gorge Community College, is the second part of a two part application exercise on making "an inexpensive PLC trainer board to introduce PLC programming and demonstrate various PLC functions." The TECO SG2 10HRA PLR is used in this exercise. The training board can be...

This slide deck, from the Advanced Manufacturing and Prototyping Integrated to Unlock Potential (AMP-IT-UP) project, was presented at the Georgia Science Teachers Association Annual Conference in February, 2016. This presentation discusses building science partnerships in classrooms, schools, school...

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 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 presentation by Bob Feldmaier and Joe Petrosky of the Center for Advanced Automotive Technology (CAAT) was presented at the 2013 ATE National Principal Investigators Conference during the workshop "Follow the Money: Strategies for Leveraging ATE Grant Funding" and describes how the CAAT...

This presentation, provided by the Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Center, is from the BEST Center's 2023 Annual Institute and covers building performance standards. During this video, the presenter talks about "... how building performance standards work to lower building...

In this video, provided by the Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Center, Joshua Kace and Nora Hart from the Lawrence Berkley National Lab discuss two initiatives to decarbonize buildings: building performance standards (BPS) policies and the Better Climate Challenge (BCC). Kace...

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...

The ATETV project delivers web-based videos to connect students to careers in advanced technology. This episode of ATETV focuses on "some of the many ways students can build their resume while still in school and graduate ready to enter a high-paying, high-demand job of the future." The episode can...

This case study describes how the Additive Manufacturing (AM) department at Somerset Community College collaborated with a small business struggling to compete in the weapons accessories industry. Implementing additive manufacturing methods helped Bullpup Unlimited quickly move through the prototype...