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The ATETV project delivers web-based videos to connect students to careers in advanced technology. In this episode of ATETV, electrical engineering, emerging energy technologies and fuel cell technologies are discussed. Such ATE technical programs, available at community colleges, offer students a...

This lesson, from the Northern Wyoming Community College District, focuses on the transformation of energy from one form to another through electrical current detection and generation. Students create a model electricity generator and compare it to a real-world "state of the art" coal power plant...

The Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Workshop (MAST) provides this experiment on "the effect of cold-working (strain-hardening) and annealing on the ability of wires of the same metal to support a load." Students will gain hands-on experience with cold-working and annealing and get to...

This 2-page checklist, from the Minnesota State Advanced Manufacturing Center of Excellence, is intended for manufacturers and includes ideas and tips for offering a virtual Minnesota Manufactured Statewide Tour. These tours can help students learn more about modern manufacturing in Minnesota. Tours...

This page from the Center for Aviation and Automotive Technical Education (CA2VES) and the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center for Manufacturing (FLATE) provides a lesson plan for high school students entitled, "Manufacturing Your Way to a Brighter Future."  This 7-page lesson plan...

The ATETV project delivers web-based videos to connect students to careers in advanced technology. In this episode of ATETV, take a walk outside with a instructor and students who are plotting maps and using GIS to help one community preserve history. Running time for the full episode of this...

This webpage from the EFMR Monitoring Group provides information on the extraction of natural gas from Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale formation. Users may read a brief overview of the extraction efforts and the environmental concerns involved. A lesson plan and resource guide is available for...

In this video adapted from Pathways to Technology, learn how a degree in marine technology helped one student go from working at a marine farming company to becoming a partner in that company. Trevor Fay uses the GPS/GIS technology he studied in school to farm the red abalone, tracking their...

In this video adapted from Pathways to Technology, discover the undersea world of Penelope Ross, who’s studying marine technology. Penelope is learning to build undersea robots called ROVs: remotely operated vehicles. These ROVs can go places in the ocean where it’s hard for humans to travel, and...

In this video from Pathways to Technology, learn about the field of marine technology. The ocean is crucial to human life, so it is important to understand the ocean and the challenges it faces today. From mapping the ocean floor to tracking fish populations to monitoring pollution, marine...