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Learning Module: Micro Pressure Sensors & the Wheatstone Bridge - Instructor Guides
24 Feb 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Southwest Center for Microsystems Education (SCME)
This purpose of this learning module is to allow students the opportunity to explore micro pressure sensors - their applications, design and fabrication, and operation.
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Learning Module: Microcantilevers
09 Feb 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Southwest Center for Microsystems Education (SCME)
This learning module introduces you to the microcantilever, its applications in micro and nanotechnologies, its use in sensor arrays, and how it works in both static and dynamic modes of operation. There is a pre and post-test, four (4) informational units (PKs), and two (2)...
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Learning Module: Microcantilevers - Instructor Materials
09 Feb 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Southwest Center for Microsystems Education (SCME)
This learning module is an overview of microcantilevers, how they work and how they are used in micro and nanotechnology. These are the instructor materials.
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Learning Module: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
27 Mar 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Southwest Center for Microsystems Education (SCME)
This learning modules introduces you to the types of personal protective equipment (PPE) required when working in a manufacturing or laboratory environment. The purpose of PPE is discussed as well as the type of PPE required for different tasks.
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Learning Module: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) - Instructor Guides
27 Mar 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Southwest Center for Microsystems Education (SCME)
This learning modules introduces students to the types of personal protective equipment (PPE) required when working in a manufacturing or laboratory environment. The purpose of PPE is discussed as well as the type of PPE required for different tasks.
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Learning Module: Photolithography Overview for MEMS
26 Apr 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Southwest Center for Microsystems Education (SCME)
This learning module provides an overview of the most common photolithography process used for the fabrication of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), its terminology and basic concepts. Activities allow you to further explore some of these concepts.
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Learning Module: Photolithography Overview for MEMS - Instructor Guides
26 Apr 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Southwest Center for Microsystems Education (SCME)
This learning modules provides an overview of the most common photolithography process used in the fabrication of microelectromechnical systems (MEMS), its terminology and basic concepts. Activities allows students to further explore some of these concepts.
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Learning Module: Safety Data Sheets (SDS)
27 Mar 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Southwest Center for Microsystems Education (SCME)
A Safety Data Sheet (SDS) contains valuable information and OSHA required information on a chemical - its physical and chemical properties, potential hazards, proper methods for storing and transporting, and much more. This learning module provides information on the requirements and...
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Learning Module: Safety Data Sheets (SDS) - Instructor Guides
27 Mar 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Southwest Center for Microsystems Education (SCME)
A Safety Data Sheet (SDS) contains valuable information and OSHA required information on a chemical - its physical and chemical properties, potential hazards, proper methods for storing and transporting, and much more. This learning module provides information on the requirements and...
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Learning Module: Units of Weights and Measures
06 Jun 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Southwest Center for Microsystems Education (SCME)
This learning module provides information on the evolution of the current systems of weights and measures, and an overview of the International Standards of Units and metric system. Activities provide the opportunity to research the current state of weights and measures around the world and...
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Learning Module: Units of Weights and Measures - Instructor Guides
06 Jun 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Southwest Center for Microsystems Education (SCME)
This learning module provides information on the evolution of the current systems of weights and measures, and an overview of the International Standards of Units and metric system. Activities provide the opportunity to research the current state of weights and measures around the world and...
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Learning Set on Size, Scale, Function and Measurement Systems
13 Jan 2020 | | Contributor(s):: Brett Criswell, David Oertner, NNCI Nano
This activity is designed to be used at the 9th grade level in a general science or physical science class setting in conjunction with a unit on measurement. However, it is flexible in design and could easily be adapted to other grade levels in other classes.
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Let's Review…What is Nanotech?
04 Dec 2015 | | Contributor(s):: SHINE Project, SHINE Project
Lecture 5 in a series of lectures on nanotechnology from SHINE: Seattle's Hub for Industry-driven Nanotechnology Education.
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Light Emitting Diodes
29 Jun 2020 | | Contributor(s):: Nano-Link Center for Nanotechnology Education, Sam Levenson, James J Marti
This module demonstrates the concepts of semiconductor band gaps and the quantum nature of light using readily available and inexpensive LEDs. It uses a simple fact which surprises many students – LED can detect light (i.e., act as small solar cells) as well as generate light. The...
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Light Extraction by Changing Composition of Material
06 Jan 2020 | | Contributor(s):: Sidhu Rano, NNCI Nano
This activity has been designed to have students explore light emitting diodes (LED) and the importance of index of refraction in improving LED efficiency. This activity investigates the tune-ability of a polymer’s index of refraction by using a macromodel LED.
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Linear Diffusion and Cell Signaling
17 Apr 2020 | | Contributor(s):: NNCI Nano
In this activity, students explore the concept of diffusion as a component of cell communication. Specifically, students will explore how the rate of diffusion varies with distance and concentration gradient. They will use a pipet with water and dye to observe a macro-model of diffusion....
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Lines on Paper
11 Jan 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Joshua LaForge, NNCI Nano
Students will learn how scientists use a process called X-ray diffraction to figure out the structure of things that are too small to see such as atoms, molecules, and crystal structures.This lab will help students understand how light is bent into different directions as it interacts with...
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Loon Nesting Platforms: An EngrTEAMS Curricular Unit
20 Jun 2022 | | Contributor(s):: Kellie Kroc Sharold, Katie Pangborn, Molly Stillings, Corey Mathis, Wendy Niesl, Mike Enah, Alaina Szostkowski, Kerrie Douglas, Tamara J. Moore
Loon Nesting Platforms is an engineering design-based STEM curricular unit. The unit aims to facilitate the learning of major science and mathematical concepts and skills within the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and Common Core State Standards (CCSS) respectively. The unit includes...
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Make a Microfluidic Device to Investigate Properties of Solutions
07 Apr 2020 | | Contributor(s):: Greg Hair, NNCI Nano
This lesson focuses on having students design and test a microfluidic device to investigate the properties of solutions. The lesson activities combine concepts learned in the previous semester (energy, frequency, wavelength, and bonding) together with the aforementioned concepts of solutions to...
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Making a Liquid Crystal Thermometer
09 Jan 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Rano Sidhu, NNCI Nano
Liquid crystals are matter that has properties between those of a liquid and a solid. Liquid crystals may flow like a liquid but have crystals like a solid.colors of the objects are Color is the outcome of various light properties: absorption, refraction, or reflection. In the case of liquid...