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This website from the University of California Berkeley provides information on the Center for the Built Environment (CBE). The CBE's "mission is to improve the environmental quality and energy efficiency of buildings by providing timely, unbiased information on building technologies and design and...

This downloadable publication from the National Academies Press concerns the public understanding of the field of engineering and ways to attract young people to the profession. The report offers tested messages that reposition engineering as a satisfying profession that involves creative ideas and...

This interactive presentation, created by Terry Bartelt and hosted by the Electromechanical Digital Library, discusses the history and theory of Charles's Law, which states, "the volume of a given quantity of gas varies directly with its temperature." A series of interactive flash animations show...

This video, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is a demonstration of checking pocket depths during electric guitar construction. Checking pocket depths is described as a way to ensure that the bridge saddles will not be too high during final guitar set-up. In the video Chad McCormack...

This video, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, was recorded at the Guitar Build Institute held at Aptos Middle School in San Francisco, California in 2018. In the video Steve Brown demonstrates how to clean and bend fretwire before installation on an electric guitar. The video runs 5:50...

This presentation, provided by the Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Center, is from the BEST Center's 2023 Annual Institute. During the video, the presenter "... cover[s] the what, why, and how of applying heap pump technology to water heating in commercial settings." Topics...

This resource, provided by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), is an animation that demonstrates a basic overview of compressed air for use in machines. The objective of the animation is to describe the different tools that can be used with compressed air. An .mp4 is also...

This 9-page resource, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity on the use of computer-aided design in guitar construction. During the activity students will "learn to identify part features, dimensions and tolerances on a CAD drawing, develop an acceptable plan of manufacturing...

This is a course description for Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) course 6.033, Computer System Engineering.  It covers topics on the engineering of computer software and hardware systems, such as: techniques for controlling complexity; strong modularity using client-server design,...

This presentation, provided by the Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Center, is a part of the BEST Center's 2022 Annual Institute. During the presentation, Cindy Regnier, executive manager of FLEXLAB at the Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory (LBNL), explores the concept of grid...