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This 16-page document, provided by the Southeast Maritime and Transportation (SMART) Center, is a research paper and project report by Carina Stocker on automated shipping cranes. "The objective of this project was to create a small-scale autonomous gantry crane which could move containers on and...

These learning resources, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, are all part of a modular learning activity (MLA) on sharpening edged cutting tools used in the construction of acoustic guitars. The goals of this MLA is to "guide the student to an understanding of the basic, physical science...

Lesson Description:  Toothpick Factory: Soft Skills is a hands-on activity from the Florida Advanced Technological Education (FLATE) Center and is intended to help students develop teamwork, communication, and leadership skills. This activity will also help students understand the manufacturing...

This lesson, from the Technological Education Pathways Partnership (TEPP), uses two PowerPoint presentations to lead students through the components of a digital non-programmable thermostat and how they work. A lab guide in Word document form presents the needed materials and directions for students...

Module Description During this module, created by the Center for Nanotechnology Education (Nano-Link), students learn about the optical properties of thin films. "Students will perform an experiment where they will apply a thin film to a piece of card stock paper. The students can then observe the...

This webinar recording, provided by EvaluATE: Evaluation Resource Center for Advanced Technological Education, discusses how to prevent three common evaluation fails. During the webinar, "STEM education evaluator Kirk Knestis will share strategies for effectively communicating with evaluation...

This lecture, published by Columbia Gorge Community College, provides a detailed overview of the off delay function in multifunction timers. The instructor uses illustrated examples to introduce the off delay function, provides a review of general timer functions, shows how to set up an example...

This 13-page resource, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity on the use of tolerances in engineering drawings. During the activity students will "learn to identify tolerances on a drawing, calculate the acceptable dimension of a feature, and specify tolerances for dimensions...

This exercise, from the Integrated Geospatial Education and Technology Training Project (iGETT), uses remote sensing data to identify land cover changes in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California using Landsat ETM+ imagery. The four part activity uses ArcGIS 10.1 and covers file management,...

These learning materials, made available by the STEM Guitar project, are an activity and a presentation on the growth of trees. The presentation describes factors that affect tree growth including the following topics: what information about a tree can be gained by looking at the cross section of...