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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. 

In this video presentation, provided by Erie Community College, physics professor Elena Brewer discusses the process of creating an accessible E-book, laboratory manual, and other online resources for training technicians in vacuum technology. Brewer begins by providing background on the...

This interactive presentation, created by James Bourassa and John Rosz for the Electromechanical Digital Library, discusses displacement and velocity ratios. Bourassa and Rosz begin by providing detailed definitions of both topics and then provide mathematical examples of each. Once this basic...

This article is a revised version of a talk the author gave 4 October during the 1998 National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Annual Meeting discussing diversity issues in engineering, in terms of both underrepresented populations and 'individual diversity.'

This resource, provided by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), is a cut-away animation of a pneumatic double action gripper. The objective of the animation is to describe how the double action gripper works. A short description is included. An .mp4 is also available and runs 01:15...

This resource, provided by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), is a cut-away animation of a pneumatic dual rod cylinder. The objective of this resource is to show how the dual rod cylinder works. An .mp4 is also included and runs 01:00 minute in length.