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This 10-page resource, made available by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), is a laboratory activity from the Solid State Devices course designed to "introduce the student to Switch mode power supplies." The following sections are included: Purpose, Systems Rationale, Systems...

This 16 page resource, made available by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), is a guide for students to use when assessing failures of electronic components within electronic systems. As electronic systems are complex, there can be thousands of causes for any given component...

Description: This laboratory activity, provided by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), explores power amplifiers by having students 'analyze four different classes of amplifiers and compar(ing) their efficiencies.' Before beginning this lab students should be able to explain the...

This video from Laser-Tec is part of a series of light and optics experiments. In this lab, participants pass white light through a diffraction to separate and view all colors of the light spectrum. Participants learn about the order of colors in the light spectrum and different types of spectra...

The Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Workshop (MAST) provides this experiment as an introduction to stress and strain. The lesson allows students the opportunity to "design and make a concrete cylinder and beam that can withstand the greatest applied load." The concepts of comprehensive...

The Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Workshop (MAST) provides this experiment on the elastic and plastic properties of metals. The module involves using metal wire to gauge the elastic and plastic properties of metals by measuring length difference as a result of additional tensile loads....

This 5-page resource, from the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity on basic soldering. During this activity students will "learn the basics of soldering by creating a solder sculpture and testing for continuity." This activity includes the following learning objectives:  Students will be able...

The Sunscreen and Nanotechnology Lab was created by SHINE: Seattle's Hub for Industry-driven Nanotechnology Education. "This lab consists of activities designed to teach students about nanotechnology applications in sunscreens." Lab resources include a 35-page lab manual and lab safety data sheets....

In this activity provided by the Unmanned Aircraft System operations Technician Education Program (UASTEP), students will learn to analyze multispectral images collected from a drone or unmanned aircraft system. Specifically, students will use the ArcGIS Pro software package to visualize, classify,...

Presented by the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, this two-part laboratory activity was designed to complement any chemistry unit on catalysts to "help students understand how nanoparticles may be more effective catalysts by investigating how the surface area-to-volume ratio of a...