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The ATETV project delivers web-based videos to connect students to careers in advanced technology. This episode of ATETV focuses on recruiting high school students into biotechnology fields and drafting and graphics engineering, a field which combines "artistic skills like drawing with math and...

This video, created by ATETV and presented by WGBH, takes a look at agricultural technology as a career choice. This video provides a basic overview of the field and its growing importance. In the video, several students give their opinions of an agricultural technology program, and instructors...

This resource, provided by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), is an animation of a CMOS (complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor) device and how it works. The objective of the animation is to identify the required electrical variables that allow a CMOS device to operate. An .mp4...

This animation, provided by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), illustrates how a plasma etcher works. The objective of this resource is to describe all the steps used to load, etch, and unload a wafer from a plasma etcher. An .mp4 is also included and runs 02:31 minutes in...

Alu is an example of a so-called 'jumping gene' - a transposable DNA sequence that reproduces "by copying itself and inserting into new chromosome locations." This animation from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's Dolan DNA Learning Center presents Alu through a series of illustrations of the processes...

Use of embryonic stem cells in research has been hotly debated for several years. This animation presents the basics on how stem cell lines are established. This animation from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's Dolan DNA Learning Center presents how embryonic stem cell lines are made through a series...

Hybrid cars and other vehicles have been around for many years. This site treats the reader to information concerning a variety of different forms of alternative energy vehicles including the gasoline-electric hybrid car, diesel-electric hybrids and the differences between the series and parallel...

This interactive presentation, created by Terry Bartelt and hosted by the Electromechanical Digital Library, provides an explanation of how a metal detector functions. Most people take for granted this common piece of equipment, but the science behind its function is actually quite remarkable....

This article written by Karim Nice explains what a Stirling engine is and how it works. "The Stirling engine is a heat engine that is vastly different from the internal-combustion engine in your car. A Stirling engine uses the Stirling cycle, which is unlike the cycles used in internal-combustion...

This brief interactive activity, by the Electromechanical Digital Library and Wisconsin Technical College System faculty, explains clearly the reasons to use switches in place of hubs when using an LAN. The animations and corresponding explanations are helpful as the user clicks through each slide...