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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,...

DeafTEC provides this section of their site with details about information technology careers. Separate pages answer why students should consider a career in IT, help them determine if this career is right for them, and list skills they will need, both technical and personal. Lastly, a section on...

Authors Mario Simoni, Marc Herniter and Bruce Ferguson of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology present their work in developing electronics concept inventory (ECI) exam for basic electronic circuits.  "Concept inventory exams are standardized tests that have been carefully designed to point out the...

This webpage, created by the Ecological Society of America, details a framework for using continental-scale data in undergraduate ecology teaching and learning. An understanding of external drivers, ecological responses, human behaviors, and the "mediating interactions between external drivers and...

This 195-page educator’s guide is provided by the Northwest Center for Sustainable Resources and is part of a series on community-based education. This guide "is a compilation and summary of each of the previous manuals for schools and communities looking for specific ways of working together to...

This lecture from the iBioSeminars project is presented by David Botstein from Princeton University. It presents experiments done in Botstein's lab studying, in yeast, the coordination of growth rate, stress response, metabolism and cell division. Using innovative methods to color code and cluster...

This tutorial, provided by Virginia Geospatial Extension, is part of a series of 30 videos that cover remotely sensed data in ArcMap 10.x versions. This tutorial demonstrates connection to a driver and server in ArcMap. This video runs 01:34 minutes in length. The other videos in the series are...

This paper, by Theodore Lewis, Professor in Industrial Education at the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul, covers methods and approaches to technology curriculum. These methods are "content, which focuses upon conceptual structure, and process, which...

This 3-page report, provided by EvaluATE: Evaluation Resource Center for Advanced Technological Education, discusses the major contributors and inhibitors that influence ATE projects' articulation agreement activities. These activities "are aimed at enabling students to matriculate to higher levels...

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is an international agreement between 183 governments. Its aim is to "ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival." There is a species data base,...