Posted on January 5th, 2015 by Mary Lord
The Young Mind Awards are a global competition for middle and high school students to inspire interest in becoming innovators and engineers. Teams or individuals design and build a product to solve a problem or improve a process, then demonstrate how it works in a three-minute video presentation. Entries are due May 31, 2015.
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Tags: Contest, Design, Electrical, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical engineering, research and development, Technology, wireless, Young Minds Design Awards
Posted on December 11th, 2014 by Mary Lord
Light-emitting diodes illuminate everything from traffic signals to shimmering sculptures like this one by Makoto Tojiki. But the researchers whose early 1990s breakthrough – a blue-light LED – made today’s energy-saving white lamps possible toiled mostly in the shadows… until they won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2014.
No longer. In September, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in physics to Isamu Akasaki of Meijo University in Nagoya, Japan, Hiroshi Amano of Nagoya University, and Shuji Nakamura, a professor of materials and co-director of the Solid State Lighting and Energy Electronics Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Tags: blue LED, discovery, Electrical, electricity, Hiroshi Amano, Innovation, invention, Isamu Akasaki, light, Nobel Prize, Physics, Shuji Nakamura
Posted on January 18th, 2012 by Mary Lord
In this lesson, pairs of students in grades 4 to 7 will learn about the engineering design process and electrical circuits by building a dance pad that sounds a buzzer or flashes a light when stepped on.
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Tags: circuits, Design Squad, Design Squad Nation, Electrical, Electrical Engineering, Engineering Design, Engineering Design Process, Fun & Games, games
Posted on October 16th, 2011 by ASEE
Despite the anxiety triggered by last spring’s nuclear disaster in Japan, nuclear power is still a key part of this country’s energy mix. Industry and universities are enlisting help from teachers in preparing the next generation of nuclear engineers and technicians.
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Tags: Electrical, Electrical Engineering, Energy, Nuclear Engineering, Nuclear Science, Programs for Teachers, Teacher Training, Teacher Workshops, Teachers, Workshops
Posted on May 22nd, 2011 by Jaimie Schock
A Purdue University engineering professor has found that building and racing go-karts is a great way not only to interest his own students in science and engineering, but at-risk middle-school kids as well.
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Tags: Automobiles, Automotive engineering, Cars, Electrical, Electrical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Green, Green Technology
Posted on September 13th, 2010 by ASEE
This lesson engages students in grades 6-8 in an electrolysis activity separating hydrogen and oxygen to help them understand how hydrogen is created to be used as an energy source.
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Tags: Electrical, Electrical Engineering, Lesson Plan, Water
Posted on November 18th, 2009 by Jaimie Schock
In this single-session activity, students in grades 1-5 participate in a hands-on science investigation of electricity. They learn through discovery about how electricity works. Students’ natural curiosity and sense of exploration enable them to explore and learn on their own with minimal input from the teacher.
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Posted on November 7th, 2009 by ASEE
Energy Kids is an excellent K-12 teaching resource with background information, historic profiles, games, activities, and lesson plans. Kids Saving Energy focuses on students grades K-3 and saving energy in the home.
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Tags: Electrical, Energy, games, Grades K-5, Green Technology, Lesson Plans, Science Fair Projects, U.S. Department of Energy
Posted on November 6th, 2009 by ASEE
Brief, engaging webisodes feature the work of Department of Defense engineers and scientists, ranging from dolphin training to austronauts’ high tech gloves to computer design of naval vessels. The web videos encourage student interest in STEM subjects and technical careers at a Defense laboratory.
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Tags: Aerospace, Biotechnology, Chemical, Department of Defense, Electrical, Grades 9-12, Materials Engineering, NDEP, Robotics, Television, Web Resources, Webisodes
