Engineering and Technology Gateways and Resources

Adaptive Use Bridge Project
http://www.ecs.umass.edu/adaptive_bridge_use/
The Adaptive Use Bridge Project website is a repository for work being conducted at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in which historic iron bridges are rehabilitated, documented, and analyzed. The purpose of the project i... Full description

Addressing the Rest: Understanding Influences and Incorporating Advantages of Non-Cognitive Factors in the Engineering Classroom
http://ee.washington.edu/research/dms/CCLI_main.html
Addressing the Rest is designed to enhance the understanding of how both men and women perceive, process, and react to the engineering education cycle. Featuring organized resources covering Affective Constructs and Social Instruc... Full description

Air Pollution Training Institute Virtual Classroom: Basic Air Pollution Meteorology
http://yosemite.epa.gov/oaqps/EOGtrain.nsf/DisplayView/SI_409_0-5?OpenDocument
This Air Pollution Training Institute (APTI) course uses video presentations, text materials, and reading assignments to present basic meteorology, meteorological effects on air pollution, meteorological instrumentation, air quali... Full description

AMA Cub / Delta Dart Website
http://www.hbci.com/~bkuhl/Dart.htm
The AMA Cub or Delta Dart is the most popular beginner's model airplane. The website was created to supplement the instructions that come with the plane, promote and introduce model aviation to young people, and promote an interes... Full description

American Academy of Forensic Science: Choosing a Career
http://aafs.org/default.asp?section_id=resources&page_id=choosing_a_career
This guide provides information on careers in forensic science. Topics include what forensic science is and what forensic scientists do, educational requirements, and what graduates in this field might expect in terms of work loca... Full description

American Elements
http://www.americanelements.com/
This company's web site features an interactive periodic chart that provides information on the elements, including a description, physical and thermal properties, abundance, isotopes, ionization energy, the element's discoverer, ... Full description

ASEE Conference Proceedings, 1996-2007
http://www.asee.org/about/events/conferences/search.cfm
This page of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) site allows users to access proceedings of the organization's annual conferences from 1996 to 2007. The archive can be searched by keyword and year, author and yea... Full description

ASTM Digital LIbrary
http://www.astm.org/cgi-bin/SoftCart.exe/DIGITAL_LIBRARY/index.shtml?L+mystore+zrij9078+11...
ASTM International, originally known as the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), has made available a digital library providing access to nearly every ASTM International book and paper on hundreds of industries, dati... Full description

ATEEC Products
http://www.ateec.org/store/
ATEEC (Advanced Technology Environmental Education Center) offers modules on technology and environmental science topics for college and high-school instructors. Each module focuses on using science and critical-thinking skills to... Full description

Basics of Space Flight
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/
This tutorial is designed to help identify the range of concepts associated with deep space missions and illustrate the relationships among them. The three sections deal with the environment of space (e.g., the solar system, spati... Full description

BioEMB: Bioengineering Educational Materials Bank
http://www.bioemb.net
The Bioengineering Educational Materials Bank (BioEMB) is designed to help chemical engineering professors, especially those with no biology or biotechnology background, include biotech examples in their introductory courses. It w... Full description

BioTrek: Biotechnology Outreach
http://www.biotech.wisc.edu/outreach/index.html
BioTrek is the science outreach program of the Biotechnology Center of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Wisconcin Extension. Biotrek is dedicated to bioscience education, with emphasis on the State of Wisconsi... Full description

BrainPOP Technology: Innovations, Invention, and Discoveries
http://www.brainpop.com/technology/seeall/
This collection of interactive features and animated movies introduces students (grades 3-12) to inventions and technological innovations. Categories covered are communications, computers and the internet, energy, simple machines,... Full description

CANVAS at the Krannert Art Museum
http://www.canvas.uiuc.edu/
CANVAS--the Collaborative Advanced Navigation Virtual Art Studio, housed at the Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign--is a three-screened, back-projectioned virtual-reality open lab for research and teaching proj... Full description

Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education: K-12 Education Curriculum
http://www.ciese.org/currichome.html
The Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) offers a wide variety of quantitative, inquiry-based science and mathematics curricula that use real-time data; engage students in projects using pooled data f... Full description

Civil Engineering Portal
http://www.engineeringcivil.com/
This portal site is intended to help civil engineering students and to provide information about the latest civil engineering projects and software, including a general history and a listing of disciplines within the science. The ... Full description

Coalition for Plasma Science
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/science/dna/
Created to increase public understanding of plasma science, this site presents brief papers introducing particular aspects of plasma science and its practical applications, plus an excellent Teachers Guide to Plasma Science Resour... Full description

Cornell Center for Materials Research: Ask A Scientist
http://www.msc.cornell.edu/education/ask/
This feature lets users ask questions of scientists at the Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR). Questions and answers are published on the CCMR website and by the Ithaca Journal, the newspaper of Ithaca, New York. The web... Full description

Cornell Engineering Magazine
http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/engrMagazine/
This online magazine, published three times per year by the Cornell University College of Engineering, features news items, personal profiles, and feature articles on engineering topics written by and for Cornell students, faculty... Full description

Cornell University College of Engineering Timeline: 170 Years of Engineering Innovation
http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/cornellTimeline.html
This interactive timeline introduces users to important people and events in the 170-year history of engineering at Cornell University. It begins in 1830 with the construction of a 200-foot tunnel near Ithaca, New York, by the uni... Full description

Design Squad
http://pbskids.org/designsquad/
This television program, intended to increase students' awareness of and interest in engineering, takes the form of a competition in which teams of contestants work together to design and build solutions to various engineering pro... Full description

Digital Bridges: Bridges of the Nineteenth Century
http://bridges.lib.lehigh.edu
The collection consists of thirty representative 19th-century American bridge engineering monographs, manuals, and documents from the Lehigh University Libraries' Special Collections. The source documents have been scanned, conver... Full description

Digital Library Network for Engineering and Technology (DLNET)
http://www.dlnet.vt.edu/
The Digital Library Network for Engineering and Technology (DLNET) is a repository of learning objects (lecture, course modules, white-papers, software) for engineering and technology at the college level. Most learning objects da... Full description

Digital Library of Ceramic Microstructures
http://www.udri.udayton.edu/dlcm
This library features hundreds of images of microstructures for functional ceramics, with emphasis on materials used for structural, electronic, and thermal applications. The images are intended for use in ceramics education and r... Full description

Discovering Fluid Power
http://www.ccefp.org/highlights/fluid-power-videos
Discovering Fluid Power is a 30-minute exploration of the fluid power industry and its positive effects on our current and future society. This program offers a general overview and an in-depth introduction to fluid power technolo... Full description

ElectroSim 2.0: Interactive Simulations of Basic Electronic and Operational Amplifier Circuits
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~toh/ElectroSim/
ElectroSim 2.0 is a collection of theory-based interactive simulations of simple electronic circuits, suitable for a course in elementary practical instrumentation electronics; the simulations were created for use in an "Electroni... Full description

Emerald Engineering Interest Area
http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/engineering/site.htm
This site provides information and publications for engineers and engineering students, including journal articles, books, case studies, interviews, opinion features, and other resources. Topics include advanced automation (assemb... Full description

Engaged in Thermodynamics
http://cset.mnsu.edu/engagethermo
The Engaged in Thermodynamics material is designed as a textbook supplement resource for use in engineering thermodynamics and thermodynamics related courses. Features include real world narratives on thermodynamics applications, ... Full description

engAPPLETS: Java Applets for Engineering Education
http://www.engapplets.vt.edu/
This collection of applets provides interactive simulations of engineering and physics principles. The applets are organized by topic: fluid dynamics (fluid flow, convection, conduction, and others), statistics (Mohr's circle, she... Full description

Engineering: Go For It
http://www.egfi-k12.org/
This on-line and print magazine opens up the world of engineering for students, their parents, teachers, and counselors. It has current news, stories of engineering students, and good advice about colleges. The K-12 teachers secti... Full description

Exploring the Nanoworld
http://mrsec.wisc.edu/Edetc/
The Exploring the Nanoworld web site offers instructional materials on nanotechnology, a science and technology based on the control of matter on the atomic or molecular scale. The site introduces the nanoscale (a nanometer equals... Full description

FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology)
http://www.usfirst.org/
For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring students' interest in science and technology. FIRST programs include technology-oriented competitions and challen... Full description

Flight: From Butterflies to Boeing
http://www.science-house.org/student/bw/flight/index.html
Instructions for building a manometer, and an experiment that uses it to investigate the relationship between windspeed and lift. The activities were developed for and used in an after-school program for high-school students, spon... Full description

Fluid Power: A Force for Change
http://www.nfpa.com/Education/Edu_NFPA-FP-TVprogram.asp
Fluid Power: A Force for Change is a 30-minute exploration of the fluid power industry and its positive effects on our current and future society. This program emphasizes current research in fluid power as well as the promise it h... Full description

FreePatentsOnline: Patent Analytics and Patent Searching
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/index.html
This database and search engine provide access to patent documents for thousands of inventions and technological developments. The search engine allows word stemming, proximity searching, relevancy ranking, and search-term weighin... Full description

Future of Coal
http://web.mit.edu/coal/
This report, authored by a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, discusses the future of coal as an energy source in a carbon-constrained world. It evaluates the technologies and costs associated with... Full description

Future of Nuclear Power
http://web.mit.edu/nuclearpower/
This report, authored by a team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, discusses the interrelated technical, economic, environmental, and political challenges facing a significant increase in global nuclear p... Full description

Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Software Directory
http://www.ggsd.com/
This directory provides information on programs and software suppliers for geotechnical, geoenvironmental, and environmental engineering; hydrogeology, geology, geoscience, data analysis, and data visualization. The programs are o... Full description

Geotechnical, Rock and Water Digital Library (GROW)
http://www.grow.arizona.edu/
GROW emphasizes the areas of civil engineering that focus on geotechnical resources and rock and water resources engineering. GROW gathers resources that can be used to support learning in these topic areas. This includes learning... Full description

How Products Are Made
http://www.madehow.com/
How Products Are Made explains and details the manufacturing process of a wide variety of products, from daily household items to complicated electronic equipment and heavy machinery. The site provides descriptions of the step-by-... Full description

Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory
http://www.hastac.org/
The Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) is a consortium of humanists, artists, scientists, social scientists, and engineers from universities across the country, committed to new forms of cros... Full description

iCivilEngineer.com: Internet for Civil Engineers
http://www.icivilengineer.com/
CRS ID - 4752. Defunct URL. Request for new record, for "Civil Engineering Portal," in User Recommendations. Full description

Introduction of GIS into Civil Engineering Curricula: Fundamentals of Geotechnical Engineering
http://www.learn-civil-gis.org/geotech.aspx
This web-based instructional module was developed to incorporate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology into a foundational geotechnical engineering course. The module operates with ArcGIS 8.2 or later and includes zipped... Full description

Investigating Isotopes: Online Research Model
http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/radio/index.htm
In this module, high-school students play the roles of scientists who are asked to present information on the peaceful uses of radioisotopes to an underdeveloped country which does not yet employ these technologies. Working in tea... Full description

Lab Exercises: Digital Signal Processing with Field Programmable Gate Arrays
http://www.eng.fsu.edu/~umb/
This website features a collection of eight laboratory experiments in the use of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), user-configurable semiconductor devices, for digital signal processing (DSP). The labs cover both leading FPG... Full description

Laboratory for Innovative Technology and Engineering Education (LITEE) Case Studies
http://www.litee.org/mambo//index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=6&Itemid=45
LITEE Case Studies are innovative instructional materials in engineering that bring real-world issues into classrooms, using multimedia information technologies and cross-disciplinary teams. The Case Studies are often framed aroun... Full description

Lecture Notes on Fracture Mechanics
http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/3075
This book by a member of Cornell's Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics provides an introduction to fracture mechanics, that branch of mechanics that deals with the behavior of cracked bodies subjected to stresses and s... Full description

Life Science Informatics Center, Bellevue Community College
http://www.bcc.ctc.edu/informatics/lsicresources.htm
This website offers full-text resources for creating community college and technical college programs in medical informatics and bioinformatics, as well as instructional support materials (case studies and podcasts). The goal of t... Full description

MERC Online: Manufacturing Education Resource Center
http://www.merconline.net/
MERC Online is an electronic clearinghouse for distribution of peer-reviewed resources for manufacturing educators, including such items as model programs, educational strategies, instructional curricula, best practices, and class... Full description

MIT Theses
http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582
This collection of theses from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is posted in DSpace, a digital repository system that captures, stores, indexes, preserves, and redistributes data. Although the collection does not in... Full description

Molecular Expressions: Exploring the World of Optics and Microscopy
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/
This image collection features an extensive selection of photomicrographs, pictures taken with optical microscopes. The photos are arranged into galleries by subject: silicon molecules, pharmaceuticals, DNA, birthstones, and many ... Full description

Nano, Quantum, and Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics: Data and Property Calculation Websites
http://tigger.uic.edu/~mansoori/Thermodynamic.Data.and.Property_html
This collection of links provides access to web sites associated with nano, quantum, and statistical mechanics and thermodynamics. The links are arranged by type: data sites, calculation/program download sites, organizations invol... Full description

Nano, Quantum, and Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics: Educational Sites
http://tigger.uic.edu/~mansoori/Thermodynamics.Educational.Sites_html
This collection of links provides access to web sites associated with nano, quantum, and statistical mechanics and thermodynamics. The links are arranged by type: basic principles (including classical thermodynamics), nano, quantu... Full description

Nanobiotechnology Center
http://www.nbtc.cornell.edu/
The Nanobiotechnology Center (NBTC) at Cornell University, a Science and Technology funded by the NSF, features close collaboration between life scientists, physical scientists, and engineers, and is committed to education and out... Full description

NanoEd Resource Portal
http://www.nanoed.org/
This portal provides access to inquiry-and design-based curricula, for middle and high school science classrooms, that incorporate materials science concepts, especially nanoscale science and engineering (NSE). Materials include c... Full description

NanoHub: Online Simulation and More
http://www.nanohub.org/
NanoHUB is a web-based resource, published by the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN), for research, education, and collaboration in nanotechnology, particularly nanoelectronics, nano-electromechanical systems (NEMS)/na... Full description

NanoKids(TM)
http://nanokids.rice.edu/
NanoKids(TM) is an education and outreach program for intermediate-level (middle-school) students intended to increase their knowledge of nanotechnology and emerging research and technology in this field, which involves working wi... Full description

Nanotechnology
http://www.zyvex.com/nano/
This site provides an overview of nanotechnology, a manufacturing technology at the atomic or molecular scale, intended to make products lighter, stronger, cleaner, less expensive and more precise. It describes what nanotechnology... Full description

NASA Kids' Club
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/index.html
This site provides interactive features, games, images, videos, and other multimedia resources for younger students (grades K-4). The teacher's page--accessed by rolling over the apple sitting on the home-page "desk"--describes ea... Full description

NASA's Imagine the Universe!
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html
NASA's Imagine the Universe site features educational material for older students (14 and up). The materials include news articles, podcasts, multimedia presentations, and interactive features on astronomy topics, satellites and t... Full description

National Engineering Technology Education Clearinghouse
http://www.neteconline.org/
The National Engineering Technology Education Clearinghouse (NETEC) serves as a resource center for dissemination of engineering technology education program models, materials, and pedagogical strategies. Materials available at th... Full description

National Nanotechnology Initiative
http://www.nano.gov/
The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) is a U.S. federal program established to coordinate the research and development efforts of multiple government agencies in nanoscale science, engineering, and technology. Site material... Full description

National Renewable Energy Laboratory: Learning About Renewable Energy
http://www.nrel.gov/learning/
This site describes National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) research into renewable energy technologies and provides information on energy efficiency and various applications of renewable energy. Topics include the major categ... Full description

NDT Database and Journal
http://www.ndt.net/
This site provides access to nondestructive testing (NDT) conference proceedings, journal articles, and news items, as well as information on products and services. The Exhibition Center page allows searches of exhibitors by test ... Full description

New York Times Daily Lesson Plan Archive: Technology
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/technology.html
Archive of the New York Times' daily lesson plans, developed in partnership with the Bank Street College of Education, on technology topics. The lesson plans, intended for use with middle-school or high-school students, include le... Full description

North American Electronic Reliability Council (NERC) Investigation of August 14, 2003 Blackout
http://www.nerc.com/~filez/blackout.html
This site archives documents related to the investigation of the 2003 power failure that left large areas of the Great Lakes, New York City, northern New Jersey, and parts of New England without power. The North American Electroni... Full description

Numerical Methods for the STEM Undergraduate
http://numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu/
This site features materials for a course in numerical methods for undergraduate students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). These items include textbook notes, slide presentations, videos, simulations, a... Full description

Optical Microscopy Primer
http://microscope.fsu.edu/primer/index.html
This tutorial provides an introduction to optical microscopy and imaging. Topics include the physics of light and color, the anatomy of optical microscopes, and film and digital techniques for capturing microscopic images. There i... Full description

Optics.org: Lasers, Optics, and Photonics Resources and News
http://optics.org/cws/home
This online journal, or "community website," from Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing features news articles, interviews, and analyses of research and industry in optics, photonics, and laser technology. The site also provides i... Full description

Optics: Light at Work
http://spie.org/x2650.xml
This 15-minute video, intended as a beginning career orientation to the field of optical engineering, shows students real-world applications of optics technology, including remote controls, cell phones, bar code scanners, and comp... Full description

Particle Transport, Deposition, and Removal On-line Curriculum
http://www.clarkson.edu/projects/crcd/overview.html
A comprehensive series of interactive undergraduate and graduate engineering courses covering fundamentals of particle transport processes and the related computational and experimental methodologies, from the Combined Research Cu... Full description

PBS Online NewsHour: Future of Fuel: Advances in Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/hydrogen/
In-depth coverage of the use of hydrogen fuel cells to power cars and meet other energy needs, together with instructional materials. Includes interactive of a fuel cell, extended interview with scientist Richard Smalley, and a st... Full description

PBS Online NewsHour: Nanotechnology
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/science/nanotechnology/
In-depth coverage of the uses of nanotechnology, together with instructional materials. Includes a lesson plan on understanding nanoscale dimensions, a slide show, and Q-and-A with the creators of a museum exhibit aimed at explain... Full description

PBS Online NewsHour: Wind Power
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/science/wind_power/
In-depth coverage of wind as an alternative energy source--specifically, the offshore Cape Wind project proposed for Nantucket Sound in Massachusetts--together with instructional materials. Includes a lesson plan on alternative en... Full description

PowerLearn: Electric Power Engineering Education
http://powerlearn.ee.iastate.edu/asp/
The PowerLearn web site provides peer-reviewed power engineering courseware for college-level instruction. Registration (which is free) is required for access. The courseware is organized in modules, and each module addresses a po... Full description

Prentice Hall Companion Websites: Engineering
http://www.prenhall.com/pubguide/esm/engineer.html
This portal provides access to companion websites that accompany engineering and graphics textbooks published by Prentice-Hall, Inc. Materials include illustrations, online exercises, animations and simulations, study guides, inst... Full description

Remote Optical Circuits Knowledge (ROCK)
http://www.tech.uh.edu/rock/
The ROCK project aims to create a complete set of remotely controlled optical circuits laboratory experiments, for use in distance-learning courses. It will implement labs of sufficient generality that subsets or adaptations of th... Full description

Robotics Curriculum Clearinghouse
http://robotics.nasa.gov/rcc/
The Robotics Curriculum Clearinghouse (RCC) is an online directory of high-quality, peer-reviewed robotics-based curricula targeted at all grade levels, including informal education. Resources featured range from full courses to s... Full description

SciCentral: Engineering News
http://www.scicentral.com/E-02engi.html
This site provides links to engineering-related news articles from a variety of outlets and journals. Sources featured on the site must be freely accessible to online readers and are ranked by the editors based on reliability, tim... Full description

Science and Society Picture Library of Great Britain: Science and Technology
http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/subcategories.asp?cat=SCIENCE%20%7C%20TECHNOLOGY
This library features images depicting the origins and development of major scientific and technological advances collected from a variety of sources in Great Britain, including the Science Museum, the National Railway Museum, the... Full description

Science and Technology Facilities Council
http://www.scitech.ac.uk/
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is a multidisciplinary research organization that supports scientists and engineers world-wide, operates large-scale research facilities, manages international research projects... Full description

Sight/Insight
http://www.hubble-sightinsight.com/
This project takes students through the steps of a problem-solving process as they design a tool for astronauts to use in solving a specific problem on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Using online resources linked from the proje... Full description

SimSE: An Educational, Game-Based Software Engineering Simulation Environment
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~emilyo/SimSE/
This tool simulates software engineering environments with the goal of bridging the gap between the conceptual knowledge given to students in lectures and the comparably small amount of knowledge they get to put into practice in a... Full description

Simulation of highly idealized, atomic scale MQCA logic circuits
http://www.nanohub.org/resources/3527/
In this resource, spintronics logic devices based on majority gates formed by atomic-level arrangements of spins in the crystal lattice are considered. Full description

Society of Automotive Engineers Student competitions
http://students.sae.org/competitions
Xtreme Engineering is what you get with the Society of Automotive Engineers Collegiate Design Competitions. Go beyond textbook theory by designing, building and testing the performance of a real vehicle. Join other undergraduate a... Full description

SPIE
http://spie.org/
The web site of SPIE (originally the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers), an international membership society dedicated to research and support in fields that utilize some aspect of optics and photonics (the science... Full description

SPIE Digital Library
http://spiedl.org/
This digital library provides access to thousands of technical papers, journals, conference proceedings, online journals, and other publications of SPIE (originally the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers), an organi... Full description

Splice of Life: Genetic Engineering Research Model
http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/splice/index.htm
In this module, high-school students play the roles of genetic engineers who are competing on television for award money to fund their research. They will work in teams, each with a specialty: criminal investigation, cloning, food... Full description

Steelonthenet.com: Iron and Steel Industry News and Information Portal
http://www.steelonthenet.com/
This portal provides information on the iron and steel industry, including news articles, market prices, company information, raw material costs, production and capacity statistics, and trade data. There is also information on oth... Full description

Supermileage High Schools
http://wiki.nsdl.org/index.php/Supermileage_High_Schools
Each spring, student engineers in Midwestern high schools prepare experimental vehicles for annual mileage competitions where passenger vehicles approach 1,700 miles per gallon. The competitions are sponsored by firms who hope to ... Full description

System Dynamics Take Home Experimentation
http://mcise.uri.edu/jouaneh/nsf.php
The site provides information about a project in which University of Rhode Island undergraduate mechanical engineering students were given take-home kits to perform system dynamics and controls experiments at home. It includes des... Full description

Tacoma Narrows Bridge
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/TNBhistory/
This site presents information on the bridges that have spanned Puget Sound near Tacoma, Washington, including the original (1940) bridge, nicknamed "Galloping Gertie", that destroyed itself in a spectacular engineering failure, t... Full description

Tech-Xploration: A Technology Adventure for Teen Girls
http://www.middlesexcc.edu/techxploration/index.cfm
The Tech-Xploration program was created to address the underrepresentation of women in the technical workforce. The three-year program consists of summer camps with year-long follow-up activities intended to inspire and empower yo... Full description

Technizzel
http://www.technizzel.com
This online publication is designed to inspire young people to pursue careers in engineering and advanced technologies such as nanotechnology and biotechnology. It incorporates age-appropriate explanations and images in order to a... Full description

University of Michigan: Engineering Research Center for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems
http://erc.engin.umich.edu/
This site provides information on research into Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMS), those designed for rapid change in structure, hardware, and software components, in order to quickly adjust production capacity and functi... Full description

Weather Radar and Instrumentation: Laboratory Modules
http://arrc.ou.edu/modules
These 16 radar education modules, developed for the Weather Radar and Instrumentation Curriculum at the University of Oklahoma, provide hands-on instruction for beginning, intermediate, or advanced students to learn about radar sy... Full description

WEPAN Knowledge Center
http://www.wepanknowledgecenter.org/
The WEPAN Knowledge Center (WKC) provides a publicly accessible tool for accessing information related to women in engineering and a professional networking platform for registered users. The goal of the WKC is to increase the num... Full description

What's in a Wave? Online Research Model
http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/models/hsphysics/index.html
In this module, high-school students assume the role of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulators who must determine what frequency to assign to a new telecommunications firm. Working in small groups, they will use online... Full description

www.FuelEconomy.gov
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/
This U.S. government web site provides information on gas mileage, safety, air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions for new and used cars and trucks. Materials include a comparison tool for cars, a personal miles-per-gallon cal... Full description

YOUR Career in Fluid Power
http://www.nfpa.com/Education/careervideo.asp
This video is a high-energy, high-impact introduction to the fluid power industry that encourages high school and college students to consider the world of fluid power engineering and the exciting careers available in the field. T... Full description