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This resource, provided by the Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), is an animation that shows how radio frequency (RF) energy creates the desired conditions for initializing a plasma. An .mp4 file is also available for viewing and runs 00:30 minutes in length. 

This video runs 7:12 minutes in length and features employees from two of Maryland's STAR manufacturing companies, Marlin Steel Wire Products and the Lion Brothers Company. These employees discuss the present and future for Next Generation Manufacturing.

This best practices guide from FLATE, the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center of Excellence, is directed at those educators or STEM professionals "interested in learning how to maximize your success for creating and running a middle school summer camp about robotics—with the least amount...

This resource is a documentary film about the history of the cordage industry from ancient technologies through the industrial revolution, trustbusting, and globalization. The one-hour DVD, Ropewalk: A Cordage Engineer's Journey Through History, is free for schools, libraries, museums. Produced by...

This resource is provided by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC) and is an animation that shows a rotary piston pump operation. An .mp4 file is also available for viewing and runs 00:32 seconds in length. 

This resource, provided by the Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), is an animation of a rotary vane pump. Rotary vane pumps are "positive-displacement pumps" that consist of "vanes mounted to a rotor that rotates inside of a cavity." An .mp4 is also available for viewing and runs...

This brief interactive activity, by Electromechanical Digital Library and Wisconsin Technical College System faculty members Joseph Wetzel and Jeff Sonnleitner, provides a lesson on logical addresses in order to teach the significance of the physical address or identifying system found on every...

The ATETV project delivers web-based videos to connect students to careers in advanced technology. This episode of ATETV examines a remotely-operated vehicle (ROV) competition, HVAC as a career option, and the advantages of online distance learning. It can be viewed whole or in three segments:...

This interactive presentation, created by Terry Bartelt for the Electromechanical Digital Library, discusses the rotations per minute (RPM) of AC motors. Bartelt begins with a discussion of the magnetism that allows most of these motors to function. The author addresses such factors as the frequency...

How did Rutherford figure out the structure of the atomic nucleus without looking at it? Simulate the famous experiment in which he disproved the Plum Pudding model of the atom by observing alpha particles bouncing off atoms and determining that they must have a small core. This simulation of a...