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Converting to BiodieselMeet a college student whose class project to turn cooking grease into diesel fuel resulted in converting bus fleets to biodiesel, in this video from Earth Island Institute's New Leaders Initiative. Accessibility features: Caption |
5-12 |
Video |
The Deployable Energy AbsorberWatch how engineers stage a crash to test a new helicopter safety design technology in this video from NASA. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
Video |
Design for FunctionIn this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad designs an invention that will help them cross a swamp and also reach the top of a tall cliff. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript |
3-5 |
Video |
Designing a Paper BridgeIn this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members make a bridge from a single piece of paper. Will it be strong enough to hold a hundred pennies? Accessibility features: Caption |
3-8 |
Video |
Designing a Puff MobileThe air you exhale can power a puff mobile. Watch as the ZOOM cast races their air-powered designs to see which design features are the most successful. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript |
K-5 |
Video |
Designing a Roller CoasterIn this video segment adapted from ZOOM, the cast is challenged to design and test a roller coaster with loops, hills, and U-turns. Accessibility features: Caption |
3-5 |
Video |
Designing Balloon CarsCan the air in a balloon power a car? Watch students from Weston, Massachusetts, demonstrate their balloon car designs in this video adapted from ZOOM. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript |
3-8 |
Video |
Designing Electric Circuits: Door AlarmIn this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members design and build door alarms using a variety of materials, including aluminum foil, batteries, and buzzers. Accessibility features: Caption |
3-8 |
Video |
Designing Future Cities: Alternative EnergyIn this video segment adapted from ZOOM, visit a class as they design a city of the future that will use solar, wind, and water power to fuel its economy. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript |
3-8 |
Video |
Designing Swimming Prosthetics for a DancerIn this video segment adapted from DESIGN SQUAD, teams of high school kids use the engineering design process to build specialized prostheses for a double-amputee dancer who performs underwater. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
Designing the Citigroup SkyscraperThis video segment adapted from Thinking Big, Building Small shows how a structural engineer overcame the challenge of building New York's Citigroup skyscraper over a church. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript |
3-8 |
Video |
Designing a Wheelchair for RugbyIn this video segment adapted from DESIGN SQUAD, teams of high school kids use the engineering design process to build an automated wheelchair to help a U.S. Paralympic athlete train. Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
Down to the Core ChallengeIn this video from Design Squad Nation, kids design and build devices that can extract a core sample from a potato “asteroid.” They also learn how samples give NASA scientists insight into solar system objects. Accessibility features: Caption |
4-8 |
Video |
Drafting and Graphics EngineeringIn this video adapted from ATETV, hear firsthand from an engineering technology graphics student about her plans to work with an architect after she completes her community college program. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
Video |
Drilling to Antarctica’s Rock Core In this video adapted from ANDRILL, find out how geoscientists get through more than a dozen football fields of ice and water in order to study the rock and sediment beneath Antarctica.
Accessibility features: Caption |
3-8 |
Video |
Eduardo Torres-Jara In this video from Science City, meet Eduardo Torres-Jara, a postdoctoral associate in electrical engineering and computer science at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab. He describes his work on innovative robots that use tactile feedback to locate and grasp objects.
Accessibility features: Caption |
6-12 |
Video |
Easy-Fit DesignIn this video produced for Teachers' Domain, Chi-An Wang, a mechanical engineering graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, describes her process when working with New Balance to design a new triathlon shoe. Accessibility features: Caption |
3-12 |
Video |
Eco ElectronicsIn this video adapted from DESIGN SQUAD, meet engineers who help protect the environment by recycling and using biodegradable materials. Accessibility features: Caption |
5-12 |
Video |
Electric GirlAnna loves electricity. Watch her construct a homemade flashlight and show off her new, electrifying hairdo in this video segment from ZOOM. Accessibility features: Caption |
3-8 |
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Engineering BiofuelsIn this video segment adapted from KQED's QUEST, find out how synthetic biologists use the techniques of metabolic engineering and directed evolution to make more effective biofuels. Accessibility features: Caption |
9-12 |
Video |
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