- The Tubric
- The Tubric is a fun, hands-on way to practice the often-challenging task of writing a Driving Question for a project. It helps you practice framing initial words, person or entity, action or challe…
- STEAM Up Learning with 50 Fabulous Resources! – Teacher Reboot Camp
- inspiring students to think critically, focus on questions versus answers, conduct hands-on research, and make a difference in the world with their innovations. The field of Science, Technology, En…
- About | Corning Museum of Glass
- Established in 1951 by Corning Glass Works (now Corning Incorporated) as a gift to the nation for the company’s 100th anniversary, The Corning Museum of Glass is a not-for-profit museum dedicated…
- Cracking the mystery of nature’s toughest material — ScienceDaily
- More commonly known as mother-of-pearl, nacre’s combination of hardness and resilience has mystified scientists for more than 80 years. If humans could mimic it, it could lead to a new generati…
- The case for creativity in STEAM
- Equity in STEM areas for girls and other under-represented groups is not a matter of finding the young people who can do the work asked by the current curriculum, but to find new curricular areas a…
- Famous Women Scientists – List of More Than 90
- “women in the sciences including medicine and mathematics. You may recognize some of these famous women scientists; others may be new to you and worth further exploring. ”
<… - Cleaning up the Plastics Mess. What Role Do Engineers Play?
- Ferreira’s testing found that the average quantity of microplastics removed from the samples was 87.6 percent. A nice addition to this project is that Ferreira used free spectrometry software cal…
- Top 10 Engineering Role Models
- A role model is someone who the public (and in particular, the youth) admires, and who inspires them towards a particular pathin life.One engineer can change the world far more than an athlete, an…
- Ruled surface – Wikipedia
- Doubly ruled surfaces are the inspiration for curved hyperboloid structures that can be built with a latticework of straight elements, namely:Hyperbolic paraboloids, such as saddle roofs.Hyperboloi…
- St. Mary’s Cathedral, Tokyo – Wikipedia
- The layout of the building is in the form of a cross, from which eight hyperbolic parabolas rise in a manner similar to the slightly later landmark cathedral located in San Francisco, also referred…
- Möbius strip – Wikipedia
- a Möbius strip can be created by taking a paper strip and giving it a half-twist, and then joining the ends of the strip to form a loop. However, the Möbius strip is not a surface of only one exa…
- Built Robotics raises $33M for its self-driving construction equipment | TechCrunch
- one equipment operator to oversee a fleet of vehicles working autonomously in parallel, hopping in the cab only for tasks the machine can’t handle.Built focuses on converting the popular construc…
- Tractor overturn prediction using a bouncing ball model could save the lives of farmers — ScienceDaily
- Overturning tractors are the leading cause of death for farmers around the world. In order to reduce the rate of overturned tractors, researchers have developed a model for understanding the condit…
- Where the Art Studio Meets the Makerspace
- Integrate STEAM into your school through arts-based maker projects using digital fabrication tools commonly found in makerspaces like 3D printers, laser cutters, vinyl cutters, and CNC machin…
- DNA ‘origami’ takes flight in emerging field of nano machines: Nanoscale devices open new era in biomedical research and materials science — ScienceDaily
- DNA mechanotechnology’ is a new field to engineer DNA machines that generate, transmit and sense mechanical forces at the nanoscale. Potential uses for such devices include drug delivery device…
- Shape-shifting robot built from ‘smarticles’ shows new locomotion strategy — ScienceDaily
- Building conventional robots typically requires carefully combining components like motors, batteries, actuators, body segments, legs and wheels. Now, researchers have taken a new approach, buildin…
- LIFESABER®: A Limitless Power Supply For Wilderness Survival by Marvin Weinberger — Kickstarter
- LIFESABER®: A Limitless Power Supply For Wilderness SurvivalNever a dead cellphone. Comes with breakthrough USB generator, light/siren, UV water purifier and plasma firestarter…
- SWENext Newsletters – Society of Women Engineers
- SWENext NewslettersEach month women engineers send newsletters directly to our SWENext members. These newsletters contain STEM career and education advice, scholarship tips, and SWE announcem…
- The Engines of Our Ingenuity: Main Page
- The Engines of Our Ingenuity is a radio program that tells the story of how our culture is formed by human creativity. Written and hosted by John Lienhard and other contributors, it is heard nation…
- Dr. Andy Boyd – Houston Public Media
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