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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,...

This 2-page resource, provided by Cape Cod Community College, is a diagram showing academic paths to aviation maintenance technology careers. Information on degrees, certifications, and nine careers is provided. Careers include general aviation; manufacturing; commercial airlines; corporate...

This resource, provided by Lorain County Community College, is a glossary for terms used in nondestructive evaluation (NDE) and nondestructive testing (NDT). NDT is the process of studying an object without harming it. While NDE is often used interchangeably with NDT, it specifically refers...

This website from the University of California Berkeley provides information on the Center for the Built Environment (CBE). The CBE's "mission is to improve the environmental quality and energy efficiency of buildings by providing timely, unbiased information on building technologies and design and...

This downloadable publication from the National Academies Press concerns the public understanding of the field of engineering and ways to attract young people to the profession. The report offers tested messages that reposition engineering as a satisfying profession that involves creative ideas and...