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Balloon Skewer Relay Race
29 Jun 2020 | | Contributor(s):: Amber Genau
Do you think you could get a bamboo barbecue skewer through a balloon without popping it? With a little dish soap and some practice, I bet you could! Skewering a balloon is a fun and inexpensive way to demonstrate the structure-dependent properties of polymers. Polymers are made...
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Computational Chemistry: An Introduction to Molecular Dynamic Simulations
08 Dec 2006 | | Contributor(s):: Shalayna Lair
This module gives a brief overview of computational chemistry, a branch of chemistry concerned with theoretically determining properties of molecules. The fundamentals of how to conduct a computational project are discussed as well as the variety of different models that can be used. Because of...
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Engineering Communication with Tinker Toys
29 Jun 2020 | | Contributor(s):: Amber Genau
This resource describes three variations on an engineering communication activity using Tinker Toys. In the main activity, small groups of students are given a bag of Tinker Toys and instructed to build anything they like. They are then asked to write down building instructions for...
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Exercises for FETToy
11 Oct 2005 | | Contributor(s):: Mark Lundstrom
This series of exercises uses the FETToy program to illustrate some of the key physical concepts for nanotransistors.
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K-12 Educational Module on Sustainability: What's Inside a Hard Drive?
20 Jun 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Congying Wang
This lesson is originally designed as an outreach activity for high school students, and it can be easily transformed and integrated into current K-12 courses. In this educational module, students will learn the concepts of sustainability, electronics wastes (e-wastes), and life cycles via the...
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Materials Matching Mixer Activity
29 Jun 2020 | | Contributor(s):: Amber Genau
This materials-themed ice breaker activity is great for the first day of a camp program to get students thinking about basic material properties, as well as talking to each other and speaking out loud in front of the group. The name of a common engineering material (steel, rubber, concrete,...
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Model Rockets and Composite Materials: Design, Build, Launch
27 May 2021 | | Contributor(s):: Amber Genau
Students will gain experience with polymer matrix fiber composites, composite production, and the tradeoffs inherent in the engineering design process by designing, building and launching their own model rocket. Composite materials are created via hand layup and vacuum assisted resin...
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Molecular Orbital Theory
18 Dec 2006 | | Contributor(s):: Luis Emmanuel Bonilla
This is the seventh contribution from the students in the University of Texas at El Paso Molecular Electronics course given in the fall of 2006.Luis Bonilla and Abel Perez have designed a presentation on molecular orbital theory for high school students.Abel Perez: I obtained my BS at Instituto...
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Nano-Scale Device Simulations Using PROPHET-Lab Exercise 1
08 Feb 2006 | | Contributor(s):: Yang Liu
Companion exercises for "Nano-Scale Device Simulations Using PROPHET".
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Nano-Scale Device Simulations Using PROPHET-Lab Exercise 2
08 Feb 2006 | | Contributor(s):: Yang Liu
Companion exercises for "Nano-Scale Device Simulations Using PROPHET".
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Nanotechnology and Visible Light
19 Dec 2006 | | Contributor(s):: Raymond Serrano
This submission is an undergraduate project by Raymond Serrano, a chemistry student at UTEP. Raymond has been a nanoHUB student for one year.In addition to being factor of scale, nanoscience is also defined by the changes in the physical and chemical properties the nanoparticles. This...
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Nanotechnology in Biology
29 Aug 2006 | | Contributor(s):: Elizabeth Gardner
This is the first of two exercises developed by El Paso High School teachers as part of a two week workshop on nanotechnology education, part of the National Center for Learning and Teaching of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (NCLT) Professional Development Workshop held June 19-30, 2006 at the...
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Pineapple Packaging Design Challenge
29 Jun 2020 | | Contributor(s):: Amber Genau
This activity asks students to work in teams to consider the pros and cons of different materials as a container for cut pineapple (metal can plastic jar, glass jar). It reinforces the differences between different categories of material, weighing conflicting factors to reach a design...
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Spectroscopic Ellipsometry
12 Dec 2006 | | Contributor(s):: Lynn Marie Santiago
This is the fourth contribution from the students in the University of Texas at El Paso Molecular Electronics course given in the fall of 2006.This presentation is presented at the undergraduate level and introduces spectroscopic ellipsometry, which is one of the most important characterization...
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The Transistor
11 Dec 2006 | | Contributor(s):: Victor Hugo Estrada Rivera , Elizabeth Gardner
This is the third contribution from the students in the University of Texas at El Paso Molecular Electronics course given in the fall of 2006.This PowerPoint presentation describes a brief history of how the transistor was developed, how a transistor works and its possible applications. It is at...
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X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS)
14 Dec 2006 | | Contributor(s):: David Echevarria Torres
The XPS (X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy) it is also known as ESCA (Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis). This technique is based on the theory of the photoelectric effect that was developed by Einstein, yet it was Dr. Siegbahn and his research group who developed the XPS technique. ...