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This video is part of the 2020 SciTech Lecture Series from Forsyth Technical Community College. This series of lectures is held every year and covers an array of science and technology topics. This lecture features Daniel J.C. Herr, the chair of the Nanoscience Department at the Joint School of...

This 3-page learning activity module from the National Convergence Technology Center (CTC) provides information on technologies that have been used in the telecommunications industry. The activity consists of four short answer questions. Learning outcomes include: Describe the various...

This 8-page document, made available by the National Convergence Technology Center (CTC), is an activity on the fundamental concepts of voice over IP. During the activity students will use both a "POTS or plain old telephone system dial peer" and a VoIP dial peer. The learning objective for this...

This paper, from Richard M. Felder, the Hoechst Celanese Professor of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University, cover cooperative learning in engineering courses. Cooperative learning is explained, as well as a chronology of its implementation by the author, and an summative...

This article is an introduction to the cooperative learning model of Johnson, Johnson, and Smith (references cited in the monograph), cooperative learning activities in science and engineering courses, and ways to overcome problems that may arise when this instructional approach is used.

This 25-page paper from Fred Peskoff is a report on a study used to evaluate the relationship between college students' level of mathematics anxiety and the strategies employed to cope with it. The study found that low mathematics anxiety students tend to utilize a number of "coping strategies" more...

This 22-page report describes the design and construction of the underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV) created by the Coral Crusaders team for the Ranger Class of the 2023 MATE ROV competition. MATE ROV is a global competition that challenges STEM students to build underwater ROVs to complete...

The Cornell NanoScale Science & Technology Facility (CNF) is a national facility that supports a broad range of nanoscale science and technology projects by providing state-of-the-art resources and staff support. The website includes sections on how to get started with CNF, links to their...

This video, from the Integrated Geospatial Education and Technology Training Project (iGETT), is the first part of a two-part presentation on correcting Landsat imagery data for solar reflectance. The lecture introduces the concept of solar irradiance, brightness and its digital number, and the...

This video, from the Integrated Geospatial Education and Technology Training Project (iGETT), is the second part of a two-part presentation on correcting Landsat imagery data for solar reflectance. The lecture reviews and builds on concepts introduced in the first video, before moving on to the...