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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, 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...

This video from the Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) National Center is part of the center's 2023 Annual Institute. In the video, Joshua Kace describes building performance standards (BPS) for decarbonization. Kace provides background and contextual information on BPS, as well...

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, published by the Center for Workforce Development, is part of a series on technology and instructional issues. In this presentation, Dr. Jeff Bertrand introduces viewers to virtual reality, focuses on the development process for a typical virtual simulation, highlights some of the...

In this video presentation, Dr. Kapil Chalil Madathil introduces the Center for Aviation and Automotive Technology Education using Virtual E-Schools (CA2VES) and discusses their virtual reality modules that support advanced technical education in 2-year colleges. Dr. Chalil Madathil covers topics...

Description: This collection of learning resources, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, are activities on using computer-aided design and drafting software (CADD) to create guitar fretboards. The collection includes a series of three learning activities on designing and creating fretboards...

This interactive presentation, created by James Bourassa and John Rosz for the Electromechanical Digital Library, discusses the calculation of horsepower, RPMs, and torque. Bourassa and Rosz begin by providing detailed definitions of all three topics and then provide mathematical examples for...

The Minnesota State Advanced Manufacturing Center of Excellence provides this career pathway diagram to help people interested in manufacturing and applied engineering discern how to reach their ideal career. Six levels of careers are included that require increasing amounts of education but also...

This 307-page book, from the National Center for Optics and Photonics Education (OP-TEC), discusses and offers a solution to America's technician shortage in STEM fields. The proposed solution "is to create career pathways for STEM technicians in existing 4000 STEM high schools that would inform,...