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This page from the Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) National Center provides links to videos which pertain to building technician education. The videos fall under the categories of Accreditation, Building automation and direct digital controls, Building commissioning and...

This page from the Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) National Center provides information about the 2013 Building Automation Systems workshop. Additionally, an archive of downloadable materials from the 2009 California Community Colleges Energy Efficiency and HVAC Symposium is...

This 2-page resource, from the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity on purchasing lumber for guitars. Activity learning objectives include: calculate total board feet of a guitar and cost for the species used and accurately measure lumber using inches. This resource includes the following sections:...

This video, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, was recorded at the Guitar Build Institute held at Aptos Middle School in San Francisco, California in 2018. In the video Steve Brown introduces hand and power tools used to shape wooden guitar bodies. Tools introduced include: an angle grinder,...

This animation, provided by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), shows how a Bourdon Tube Gauge measures a vacuum. An .mp4 file is also available for viewing and runs 00:00:32 in length. 

This interactive presentation, created by Terry Bartelt and hosted by the Electromechanical Digital Library, discusses the history and theory of Boyle's Law. The presentation offers two different variations of the concept. The first involves "a change in pressure exerted on a given quantity of gas...

This 12-page paper, from the Journal of Research and Technical Careers, discusses a study that was conducted to "explore how technical skills taught ... in Florida engineering and engineering technology-themed career academies fit technical skills desired by local employers in technology and...

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,...

In this video, provided by the Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Center, Jingjing Liu from the Lawrence Berkley National Lab discusses how building demand/load flexibility helps support the power grid and the CalFlexHub initiative. CalFlexHub is a program aimed at "building up a...