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This website from Fox Valley Technical College provides learning objects on Mechanical Drives with lessons in: Belt and Chain Drives and Gears and Gear Drives. Each lesson links to an interactive resource which helps to further explain the concepts.

This Mechanical Linkages website provides learning objects in Physics of Basic Machines & Practical Four (4) Bar Mechanisms. Learning objects include Class 2 Levers: Force Input Angles; Identifying Lever Classes; Converting Rotational Velocity to Linear Velocity; Introduction to Class 1,2, and 3...

MecMovies is an extensive collection of examples, theory, and games designed to complement the entire Mechanics of Materials course. There are fifteen chapters and they include Stress, Strain, Mech Properties, Design Concepts, Axial Deform, Torsion, Equil of Beam, Bending, Shear Stress Beams, Beam...

This web-based interactive tutorial is designed to engage students in learning the steps of mesh analysis, KVL equations, supermesh and Ohm's law. Creator, Jean Pierre R. Bayard, has created this site to walk the student through step by step in order to best understand the material. Questions are...

This animation, provided by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), depicts an overview of the metallization evaporation processes. The objective of the animation is to identify the process of evaporation. This video runs 00:52 seconds in length. 

This animation, provided by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), is an animation providing an overview of the sputtering processes. The animation is accompanied with text to describe the process. An .mp4 is also available and runs 00:58 seconds in length. 

The North Carolina Community College System BioNetwork's interactive eLearning tools (IETs) are reusable chunks of training that can be deployed in a variety of courses or training programs. IETs are designed to enhance, not replace hands-on training. Learners are able to enter a hands-on lab...

The "Digital Lab Techniques Manual" is a series of videos designed to help students prepare for chemistry laboratory classes. Each video provides a detailed demonstration of a common laboratory technique. These videos provide a good supplement for teaching chemistry laboratory. Students can view the...

This page contains links to animations of various types of motors, including stepper motors, brushless motors, and permanent magnet DC motors. Some of the animations are hosted on this site, and require shockwave to view. Others are provided by other websites.

In this professional development video from Getting Results, Dr. John Bransford, professor of education at the University of Washington School of Education, as well as instructors and students from an aquarium science class, talk about how to make course content relevant through first-hand...