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This is a course description for Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) course 6.033, Computer System Engineering.  It covers topics on the engineering of computer software and hardware systems, such as: techniques for controlling complexity; strong modularity using client-server design,...

In this video, published by the Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Center, Cindy Regnier from the Lawrence Berkley National Lab provides an overview of the connected communities program. First, Regnier introduces connected communities (a group of grid-interactive efficient...

This presentation, provided by the Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Center, is a part of the BEST Center's 2022 Annual Institute. During the presentation, Cindy Regnier, executive manager of FLEXLAB at the Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory (LBNL), explores the concept of grid...

This 6-page resource, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity on sound waves created by guitar notes and chords. The purpose of this activity is for students to "demonstrate how a guitar fretboard functions and to understand the interaction between waves of different frequencies."...

This presentation, provided by the Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Center, is from the BEST Center's 2022 Annual Institute. During the presentation, Brian Lovell, Co-Principle investigator at the BEST center, discusses the development of buildings automation systems (BAS)...

This presentation, provided by the Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Center, is from the BEST Center's 2022 Annual Institute. During the presentation, Ronnen Levinson, from the Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, discusses extreme heat and ways to increase resiliency against...

This paper, from Richard M. Felder, the Hoechst Celanese Professor of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University, cover cooperative learning in engineering courses. Cooperative learning is explained, as well as a chronology of its implementation by the author, and an summative...

In this video, provided by the Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Center, Bo Shen from the Lawrence Berkley National Lab discusses the power crises faced by China from 2020-2022 and how the Chinese government has addressed them. Shen covers the causes of the power outages in...

Collection Description: This collection, provided by Manhattan Area Technical College (MATC), includes outlines of individual courses offered in MATC's Critical Environments Engineering Technology Program. The program has developed specialized training courses for technicians that work in CET...

This 7-page paper, written by Amy L. Freeman and Anita Persaud, describes the PREF Summer Bridge Program designed to increase retention and graduation rates for underrepresented minority students in engineering. The PREF program is a residential, six-week, rigorous academic summer program in which...