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This video, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is a demonstration of electric guitar neck and fretboard assembly. Topics covered include fretboard nut area contour; fret dot location, drilling, and gluing; aligning and gluing the fretboard to the neck; and securing the glued pieces for...

This video, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is a narrated demonstration of the creation of the geometrical shape of electric guitar bodies in Fusion 360 computer-aided manufacturing software. Topics covered include: Introduction, Spline Creation, Line Creation, and Arc Creation. The video...

This 24-page document highlights a learning module that explores the processes for re-purposing failed 3D print projects, virgin print materials, and unused 3D filament spools back into usable 3D printing filaments. After the module, learners will be able to extrude acceptable 3D printing filaments...

This nine-page guide from Edmonds Community College provides a laboratory activity using lead-tin solder as a model material to demonstrate creep in metals. This activity "reinforces the concepts of stress and strain," and shows students the "role of stress in determining the creep rate in a metal...

This module provides students the opportunity to "explore silver nanoparticles and their effectiveness against bacterial growth in hands-on laboratory activities." Students first make silver nanoparticles and then use them in an experiment they design. This lesson will require two or more class...

This resource, provided by the Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge Support Center (NACK Center), includes a lab guide and corresponding videos that walk through the evaluation of the atomic layer deposition (ALD) process. In the lab, students use the ALD process to deposit a transparent...

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 introduces hand and power tools used to shape wooden guitar bodies. Tools introduced include: an angle grinder,...

This video, from the Center for Aquaculture and Biotechnology at Brunswick Community College, discusses the Biofuels from Algae Project. This video shows the process by which oil can be extracted mechanically from algae. Each step of the process is covered. The video runs 8:57 minutes in length and...

This eight-page guide from Edmonds Community College outlines a one-hour laboratory activity demonstrating casting concepts. Students design and fabricate a clay mold to cast a usable fishing weight, or "casting sinker." This activity demonstrates how "materials properties are used in engineering...

This webinar, published by the Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge Support (NACK) Center at Pennsylvania State University, covers atomic force microscopy and the atomic force microscope (AFM). During the webinar, Dr. Wesley Sanders from Salt Lake Community College provides a general...