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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Ding! Going Up? Elevators and Engineering

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students create model elevator carriages and calibrate them, similar to the work of design and quality control engineers. Students use measurements from rotary encoders to recreate the task of calibrating elevators for a high-rise...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Rotary Encoders & Human Computer Interaction

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about rotary encoders and discover how they operate through hands-on experimentation. Rotary encoders are applied in tools to determine angle measurements and for translations of angular motion. One common rotary encoder...