- Exploration of Engineering Technology – engineering 4 kids
- “Identify the design and construction of structures for service or convenience evolving from the development of techniques for measurement, controlling systems, and the understanding of spatia…
- fishfinder – engineering 4 kids
- “detecting reflected pulses of sound energy, using SONAR technology. A modern fishfinder displays measurements of reflected sound on a graphical display to locate schools of fish, underwater d…
- flight – engineering 4 kids
- “lift balance allowed the Wrights to measure the lift coefficient directlydrift balance – directly measure the drag to lift ratio.”
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- “Measuring Friction – Higher coefficient of friction compared to lower coefficient of friction. Measures of friction are based on the type of materials that are in contact. Concrete on concr…
- green building – engineering 4 kids
- “The U.S. Green Building Council determines certification using a rating system that measures the environmental impacts of a building’s design, construction, operations and management”<…
- greatest… – engineering 4 kids
- “tools for discovery and scientific inquiry, measurement, observation 12. Spacecraft 14. Imaging 18. Laser and Fiber Optics – telescope – early, Hubble , navigation – sextant, sonar, GPS…
- gyroscope – engineering 4 kids
- “motion – a change in the position of a body with respect to time, as measured by a particular observer in a particular frame of reference.”
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- “measurement – time – clocks, speed – radar, weight – balance, scales”
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- “Hydraulic concepts such as pipe flow, dam design, fluidics and fluid control circuitry, pumps, turbines, hydropower, computational fluid dynamics, flow measurement, river channel behavior and…
- human factors – engineering 4 kids
- “Gait analysis is the systematic study of human motion, using visual observations and movement measurements. The technology to analyze gait patterns has advanced dramatically in the past few d…
- illumination – engineering 4 kids
- ” Watts were a good way to measure electrical load but not a good way to measure light output. Better units are “lumens” and “color temperature”.Lumens are a measure of light output as…
- Margaret Ingels – engineering 4 kids
- “Anderson-Armspach dust determinator, which became the industry standard for air filtration, as well as the sling psychrometer, which measures air humidity and is still used today. She was wel…
- Industrial Revolution – engineering 4 kids
- “The revolutionary developments included accurate clocks to measure longitude, steam engines, automatic machinery for creating textiles, mechanical printing, and steam-powered transportation….
- International System of Units – engineering 4 kids
- “The International System of Units is a system of measurement based on 7 base units. These base units can be used in combination with each other. This creates SI derived units, which can be us…
- James Webb Space Telescope – engineering 4 kids
- “watch the animation showing how engineers have planned how the telescope will unfold (video) in space.Design a Foldable “Solar Panel” – develop a solar panel that can solar panel be fol…
- spatial thinking – engineering 4 kids
- “A generalization of the cube to dimensions greater than three is called a “ hypercube”, “n-cube” or “measure polytope”. The tesseract is the four-dimensional hypercube or 4-cube.I…
- light – engineering 4 kids
- ” What is the confusion with the “size” of light bulbs? Why are units of measure important?Improve – What improvements were necessary to get consumers to buy CFLs and LED light bulbs?&qu…
- inclined plane – engineering 4 kids
- “In the SI system of units, mass is measured in kilograms (kg). Many other units of mass are also employed, such as: grams (g), metric tons, pounds, ounces, long and short tons, quintals, slug…
- marine ecology – engineering 4 kids
- “toxic – Poisonous or able to harm or kill cells, tissues or whole organisms. The measure of risk posed by such a poison is its toxicity.”
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