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This webinar, published by InnovATEBIO, features two talks: one on incorporating course-based research experiences into high schools and community colleges in Southwest Nebraska, and another on developing curriculum with genome planning in a program with low enrollment. The first presentation...

Terry L.M. Bartelt of the Wisconsin Online Resource Center provides this interactive study of the operation and characteristics of an incremental optical encoder used in automated manufacturing applications. A brief quiz completes the activity.

Refraction is an important behavior of light that can be used to explain the operation of lenses, prisms, and optical fiber, as well as natural phenomena such as rainbows and mirages. The index of refraction, or refractive index, is defined as the ratio of the speed of light in a vacuum to the speed...

In this video, provided by Purdue University, Chad Laux interviews Coty Back from the Indiana Department of Agriculture and Future Farmers of America. Coty discusses thoughts about the Engineering Technology Summit and agriculture education and careers. This video runs 3:35 minutes in length.

Many widely used household products such as paints, varnishes, waxes, as well as cleaning, disinfecting, cosmetic and hobby products all contain organic solvents; these can release organic compounds while you are using them, and, to some degree, when they are stored. Other sources of exposure result...

In this video adapted from Pathways to Technology, learn how exploring an interest in computers can lead to a new career. After taking, and enjoying, an online course, Hilda Villavicencio decided to study computer programming and information technology (IT) at community college. Students who attend...

In this video adapted from Pathways to Technology, you’ll learn about the wide range of jobs that are available to someone with a degree in information technology, or IT. Kennedy Symekher is studying technical and networking support in community college. He attends interviews at Microsoft and...

In this video adapted from Pathways to Technology, learn what drove Choice Jennings—someone who had never owned a computer of his own—to become interested in computer graphics, attend community college, earn an associate's degree in computer systems engineering (CSE), and start his own information...

In this video excerpted from Pathways to Technology, you'll learn about the wide range of jobs that an information technology (IT) degree can make possible. From PCs to smartphones to cars, almost every tool we use today has computer technology embedded in it. The IT specialist is the person who...

This 154-page resource from the STEM Guitar Project is a guitar design and manufacturing workbook. The resource is divided into the following sections: About Us, Learner Centered Learning Objectives, Science, Math, Electronics, Technology, Wood, and Appendi[ces]. Background information on the STEM...