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Unit Description: FLATE, the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center for Manufacturing, has developed a series of “Made in Florida” lesson plans to prepare students for careers in manufacturing. These Lesson Plans are intended to enrich science, technology, engineering, and mathematics...

The Florida Advanced Technological Education Center offers this “learning challenge” to middle schoolers, challenging them to design a tour bus. There are teacher materials offered, such as a lesson plan and a PowerPoint presentation; as well as student materials that include a student’s guide,...

Course Description: This course was developed by Kettering University and the Center for Advanced Automotive Technology (CAAT). Design with Aluminum is an introductory course focusing on the basics of engineering design, properties, manufacturing processes, design aspects, and design guidelines...

Course Description: 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 curriculum unit from Cornell Science Inquiry Partnerships aims to teach students about acid/base chemistry through the use of titration. Students act as quality control testers to determine the amount of Ca2+ in Tang® and Mg(OH)2 in milk of magnesia by standardizing three solutions for ion...

This exercise, from the Integrated Geospatial Education and Technology Training Project (iGETT), uses annual flood risk in Cedar Rapids, Iowa as an example to help students understand how Geographic Information System (GIS) and remote sensing can be used to analyze flood situations. Using this...

This learning module, provided by Support Center for Microsystems Education, introduces participants to diagnostic BioMEMS, or biological microelectromechanical systems. The module presents information about the areas in diagnostic medicine that are impacted by the introduction of BioMEMS. The...

This 5-page guide, provided by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), is intended to help users become familiar with the hardware interface of Spartan 3E FPGA board. The Spartan-3E Starter Kit board is more advanced and complex compared to other Spartan development boards. This guide...

Description: The materials for this FPGA Beer Module lab activity are provided by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC). The goal of this lab is to '"earn the use of Spartan 3E FPGA development board from Xilinx and how to create the hardware connections between the development board...