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Give Students an Engineering Edge: Add a Measurable Outcome to Bridge-Building Project
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Cotton, Samuel E.; Calkins, Celeste M. – Tech Directions, 2011
Problem-solving activities let students use knowledge gained in various areas of their academic education. They bring together skills and knowledge from such areas as science, math, art, and English by simulating activities and projects students will encounter later in career and life experiences. A very important feature of most problem-solving…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Hands on Science, Problem Solving, Student Projects
Give Students an Engineering Edge--Add a Measurable Outcome to Bridge-Building Project
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Cotton, Samuel E.; Calkins, Celeste M. – Tech Directions, 2011
Problem-solving activities let students use knowledge gained in various areas of their academic education. They bring together skills and knowledge from such areas as science, math, art, and English by simulating activities and projects students will encounter later in career and life experiences. A very important feature of most problem-solving…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Hands on Science, Problem Solving, Engineering
Quality Control through Design and Process: Gambrel Roof Truss Challenge
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Ward, Dell; Jones, James – Tech Directions, 2011
Customers determine whether a product fulfills their needs or satisfies them. "Quality control", then, is the process of finding out what the customer wants, along with designing, producing, delivering, and servicing the product--and ultimately satisfying the customer's expectations. For many years, people considered a product to be of good…
Descriptors: Structural Elements (Construction), Quality Control, Total Quality Management, Educational Technology
Cobra Strikes! High-Performance Car Inspires Students, Markets Program
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Jenkins, Bonita – Tech Directions, 2008
Nestled in the Lower Piedmont region of upstate South Carolina, Piedmont Technical College (PTC) is one of 16 technical colleges in the state. Automotive technology is one of its most popular programs. The program features an instructive, motivating activity that the author describes in this article: building a high-performance car. The Cobra…
Descriptors: Technical Institutes, Motor Vehicles, Auto Mechanics, Experiential Learning
Tool Storage Problem Solved!
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Klenke, Andrew M.; Dell, Tim W. – Tech Directions, 2007
Graduates of the automotive technology program at Pittsburg State University (PSU) generally enter the workforce in some type of automotive management role. As a result, the program does not require students to purchase their own tools, and it does not have room for all 280 majors to roll around a personal tool chest. Each instructor must maintain…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Auto Mechanics, Equipment, Storage
Dyna Soars: Low Torque Measurement Dynamometer
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Dolph, Darrel A. – Tech Directions, 2004
Students in the Electronics Engineering Technology program at Pennsylvania College of Technology designed and built a computerized dynamometer platform for testing dc brushless motors. As the capstone experience for EET-320, Measurement and Tests course, students were divided into teams of four and were given three weeks to complete the project.…
Descriptors: Engineering Technology, Problem Based Learning, Science Process Skills, Science Projects