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This presentation, provided by the Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Center, is from the BEST Center's 2022 Annual Institute. In the presentation, Mary Ann Piette, director of the building technology & urban systems division at Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, examines the...

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, Mary Ann Piette explores the decarbonization of the buildings sector and integrating the sector with a clean grid. US climate goals, 12 core...

In this 2-page activity, from the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center, students translate real world problems into mathematical form. Students use formulas to calculate perimeter, circumference, surface area, cross sectional areas, and volumes of three dimensional analysis. This...

Curriculum Description: This collection includes all components of the Spring 2021 Integrated Design Thinking curriculum developed by NorthWest Arkansas Community College (NWACC). Design Thinking begins as a framework for discovering and developing solutions that can be applied to a variety of...

This slide deck, from the Advanced Manufacturing and Prototyping Integrated to Unlock Potential (AMP-IT-UP) project, was presented at the Griffin Regional Educational Service Agency 2nd Annual Drive-In STEM Conference in November, 2015. This presentation discusses the Rigor and Relevance Scale, the...

This 3-page resource, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity on guitar body design. During the activity students design a wooden guitar body with Vcarve Pro CAD software. The activity was designed as a capstone project "for second and third year students already familiar with CAD...

In this webinar from Michigan State University, Anna Anderson, Ben Ridderbos, and Matt Kanter describe current work and lessons learned in designing and executing mass timber projects. The panelists discuss the collaboration between Equilibrium Consulting and Lord Aeck Sargent, as well as past and...

This 42-page article, provided by the Georgia Institute of Technology, addresses how to best assess K-12 engineering instruction. In particular, the authors of this study "[demonstrated] the use of mixed methods to guide the development and revision of K-12 Engineering Design Process (EDP)...

This 17-page paper, provided by the Georgia Institute of Technology, addresses the utilization of Think Aloud Interviews (TAIs) as an assessment in the Engineering Design Process (EDP). The Engineering Design Process "frames... [the] curriculum" for an NSF funded partnership between the Georgia...

This paper, by Jonathan Hill, Kevin Ball, and Majdi Atallah, all of the University of Hartford, covers human performance monitoring using a research-oriented wireless system. Monitor systems and sensor units are discussed in depth. A present status and summary are also included.