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This 9-page lab activity is provided by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC). "The purpose of this lab is to be able to measure and calculate basic values such as voltage, current, power, and efficiencies for a power system." The following sections are included: Purpose, Systems...
This lab activity is provided by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC) and is intended to bring together all the principles and laws of series circuits. In this lab students will design, construct, and test a multi-range voltmeter. In the process of doing this lab activity, the...
This 10-page lab activity is provided by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC). "The purpose of this lab is to collect data on measurements, observe skin effect in wires and propagation delay in a cable, and summarize your findings." This lab activity includes information on the ...
These presentation slides, from the Georgia Institute of Technology, address three middle school engineering and technology courses created by the Advanced Manufacturing and Prototyping, Integrated to Unlock Potential (AMP-IT-UP) project. These 18-week STEM Innovation and Design courses include the...
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Design with Composite Materials is provided by Kettering University and the Center for Advanced Automotive Technology (CAAT) and is an introductory course focusing on students learning properties, manufacturing processes, and design guidelines of fiber-reinforced composite...
This 3-page resource, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity on guitar body design. During the activity students design a wooden guitar body with Vcarve Pro CAD software. The activity was designed as a capstone project "for second and third year students already familiar with CAD...
This 13-page article discusses the impact of Click! Urban Adventure, an interactive game designed to engage middle school aged old girls with STEM skills. This article was authored by Kristin Hughes of Carnegie Mellon University, a member of the team that developed Click! Urban Adventure. As Hughes...
This 42-page article, provided by the Georgia Institute of Technology, addresses how to best assess K-12 engineering instruction. In particular, the authors of this study "[demonstrated] the use of mixed methods to guide the development and revision of K-12 Engineering Design Process (EDP)...
This 17-page paper, provided by the Georgia Institute of Technology, addresses the utilization of Think Aloud Interviews (TAIs) as an assessment in the Engineering Design Process (EDP). The Engineering Design Process "frames... [the] curriculum" for an NSF funded partnership between the Georgia...
Developing Supportive STEM Community College to Four-Year College and University Transfer EcosystemsThis paper, commissioned by the 2011 summit on Community Colleges in the Evolving STEM Education Landscape, describes the challenges to creating effective transfer pathways for students in STEM fields. Author and Associate Professor Alicia Dowd recommends the following approaches: 1) Create regional...
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