NASA
NASA's Curious Universe: Webb Space Telescope: Building the Next Discovery Machine
Webb is preparing for a million-mile journey to its lookout point over the universe. Engineers have been hard at work designing, installing, and testing the world’s next discovery machine that will change astronomy for years to come....
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Solve Linear Equations with MATLAB
MATLAB is used to solve a set of linear equations (Ax=b) by inverting the matrix A and multiplying by the b vector. Three ways to solve A*x=b are: x = inv(A)*b % good x = A\b % better x = linsolve(A,b) % best See...
TMW Media
Battery Power Innovations: Battery voltage
What is a volt? What careers deal with battery production and innovation? Battery Power Innovations, Part 3
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Python Basic Statistical Analysis
Python statistical functions such as average, maximum, minimum, standard deviation, and custom counting are demonstrated in an iPython notebook.
TMW Media
Cochlear Implants: Implant support and future advances of the technology
How has hearing assistant technology improved over the years? What you can do if you want to work in this field? Cochlear Implants, Part 4
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Data Analysis with Python for Excel Users
A common task for scientists and engineers is to analyze data from an external source. By importing the data into Python, data analysis such as statistics, trending, or calculations can be made to synthesize the information into relevant...
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Raoult's Law Vapor Liquid Equilibrium Solved with Excel
Microsoft Excel is used to calculate the liquid mole fraction and temperature of a mixture, using Raoult's law for vapor-liquid equilibrium. Excel solver is used to solve for 2 equations and 2 unknowns.
ATHS Engineering
Interview with an Acoustical Engineer: Valerie Smith's Story
Valerie Smith, an acoustical consultant at Salter, shares her journey from middle school to becoming an engineer and specializing in acoustics. She discusses her day-to-day work, extracurricular activities, and internship opportunities...
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Generate Poisson Distribution and Histogram in Excel
Powerful statistical analysis tools are available in the Excel is add-in data analysis package. This is an example of generating a randomly sampled Poisson distribution (1000 values) and plotting the frequency of the result.
Science360
How do biologists and engineers work together?
We asked David Fyhrie, program director in the National Science Foundation Engineering Directorate, "How do biologists and engineers work together?" in this special edition of “Ask a Scientist” taped at Awesome Con, where David talked...
NASA
NASA | Inside Astrobiology: Inge ten Kate
Inge ten Kate talks about the origin of life, the VAPOR instrument, and the unique opportunity to be both a scientist AND an engineer.
Science360
Marine Biologist - Ayana Johnson
Have students who think they want to be marine biologists? Show them this video! It'll get them even more excited. Ayana Johnson, who is working on her Ph.D. at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, first fell in love with the ocean and...
Next Animation Studio
San Francisco's Leaning Tower Keeps on Tilting Over
Owners of the tower’s luxury apartments are gnashing their teeth after a $100 million rescue effort was abandoned.
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Euler's Method for ODEs in Excel
Euler's method can be used to simulate and optimize differential equations in Excel. This tutorial demonstrates the steps to set up the simulation and then match the response to data.
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Microsoft Excel Solver for Engineering Optimization
Excel Solver is a powerful tool for engineering optimization. This tutorial shows how to solve a simple benchmark problem with an objective function, inequality constraint, and an equality constraint.
Visual Learning Systems
Problem Solving: Engineers and Solutions
The video discusses the concept of problems and solutions, highlighting how scientists and engineers spend their time designing solutions to various problems.
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Curated Video
The Legacy of Robert Van de Graaff
This video provides a brief overview of the life and accomplishments of Robert Jemison van de Graaff, an American physicist and inventor. It discusses his invention of the Van de Graaff generator, a high-voltage generator that produces...
Curated Video
Stephen H Long: The Man Who Mapped the West
Stephen H. Long mapped much of the unexplored American West – but he made one big mistake that set Western migration back decades.
Zach Star
This Is What My College Engineering Lab Reports Looked Like
Lab reports are a huge part of the engineering curriculum (as well as many science majors that have labs). You will likely do a lot of them throughout your college career and in this video I outline some things you can expect. Lab...
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Arduino TCLab for Engineering Education
The Temperature Control Lab is a plug-and-play Arduino device to teach programming, heat transfer, machine learning, data science, process dynamics, and control with real data. Two heaters and an LED are adjusted with MATLAB or Python....
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Introduction to Python Classes
Python classes are collections of variables and functions. Instances of the class can be initialized and customized to store properties, data, or use methods that belong to the class and instance. The tutorial concludes with an example...
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Loops in Python
Loops such as "for" and "while" in Python are blocks of code that repeat a sequence of commands. They can be repeated a set number of times or repeatedly until a condition is met. The individual loop cycle can be skipped with a continue...
Science360
Electrical Engineer - Yael Maguire
Electrical Engineer Yael Maguire spends his time designing and building Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags. These tags help businesses keep track of inventory and also increases efficiency in various industries.
Wonderscape
Preschool Prep: Alphabet and Cool Jobs from A to Z
Join host Kristin as she explores some of the coolest jobs from letter A to Z! Through light-hearted, kid-friendly illustrations, you will learn upper-case letters and understand the wide variety of jobs grown-ups have in the world. Each...