Welcome to the FEMCON Video Showcase, your gateway to inspiring stories from …
Welcome to the FEMCON Video Showcase, your gateway to inspiring stories from women and men in the construction industry across Ireland, Spain, Poland, and Germany. Our collection of video interviews highlights the experiences, challenges, and successes of females in construction, showcasing the vital role women play in this dynamic field. At FEMCON, we aim to promote gender equality in construction by sharing real-life stories from professionals who are making a difference. Through our video interviews, we hope to inspire more women to join the industry and foster an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.
Explore our videos to hear directly from women and men who are breaking barriers and challenging stereotypes. Learn about their journeys, the obstacles they've overcome, and their visions for a more diverse and equitable construction industry. Women bring unique perspectives, skills, and strengths to construction. Their contributions are essential for innovation, creativity, and sustainable growth in the industry. Discover why gender diversity is not just important but necessary for the future of construction.
Sustainability lives within the people we know and places we visitThe book …
Sustainability lives within the people we know and places we visitThe book consists of two parts: Champions of Sustainability and Sustainable Innovations in Africa. The former focuses on individuals who are renowned for their efforts to further the cause of sustainability in their respective areas of expertise while the latter highlights cities in Africa that face a challenge pertaining to sustainability, and the potential solutions they could implement to solve said crises.
The students in CIVE230: Engineering and Sustainable Development go beyond the course …
The students in CIVE230: Engineering and Sustainable Development go beyond the course content by learning from the world around us and from each other. This e-book has been the project experience that allowed students to explore topics of their choice in cities of their choice, and has become a souvenir from the course!
Based on what they have already learned about friction, students formulate hypotheses …
Based on what they have already learned about friction, students formulate hypotheses concerning the effects of weight and contact area on the amount of friction between two surfaces. In the Associated Activities (Does Weight Matter? and Does Area Matter?), students design and conduct simple experiments to test their hypotheses, using procedures similar to those used in the previous lesson (Discovering Friction). An analysis of their data will reveal the importance of weight to normal friction (the friction that occurs as a result of surface roughness) and the importance of surface area to the friction that occurs between smooth surfaces due to molecular attraction. Based on their data, students will also be able to calculate coefficients of friction for the materials tested, and compare these to published values for various materials.
In this unit, students will use the engineering design process and their …
In this unit, students will use the engineering design process and their understanding of how simple machines work to help fairytale characters solve problems. Each lesson focuses on one fairytale and one simple machine.
In this unit, students will use the engineering design process and their …
In this unit, students will use the engineering design process and their understanding of how simple machines work to help fairytale characters solve problems. Each lesson focuses on one fairytale and one simple machine.
In this unit, students will use the engineering design process and their …
In this unit, students will use the engineering design process and their understanding of how simple machines work to help fairytale characters solve problems. Each lesson focuses on one fairytale and one simple machine.
Students drop water from different heights to demonstrate the conversion of water's …
Students drop water from different heights to demonstrate the conversion of water's potential energy to kinetic energy. They see how varying the height from which water is dropped affects the splash size. They follow good experiment protocol, take measurements, calculate averages and graph results. In seeing how falling water can be used to do work, they also learn how this energy transformation figures into the engineering design and construction of hydroelectric power plants, dams and reservoirs.
Children in kindergarten through fifth grade and their families are invited to …
Children in kindergarten through fifth grade and their families are invited to learn more about the field of engineering in this hour-long special program. Family Night: Engineering introduces children to cool careers within the field of engineering that range from building roller coasters to designing artificial heart pumps for children who need them. Children will also get a chance to participate in hands-on engineering activities during the program!
The best part? Everything they need to participate can be found right in your home.
Students use the engineering design process to solve a real-world problem shoe …
Students use the engineering design process to solve a real-world problem shoe engineering! Working in small teams, they design, build and test a pair of wearable platform or high-heeled shoes, taking into consideration the stress and strain forces that it will encounter from the shoe wearer. They conclude the activity with a "walk-off" to test the shoe designs and discuss the design process.
Students use wood, wax paper and oil to investigate the importance of …
Students use wood, wax paper and oil to investigate the importance of lubrication between materials and to understand the concept of friction. Using wax paper and oil placed between pieces of wood, the function of lubricants between materials is illustrated. Students extend their understanding of friction to bones and joints in the skeletal system and become aware of what engineers can do to help reduce friction in the human body as well as in machines.
This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by …
This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:
"What makes rocket engines tough enough to withstand the incredibly high temperatures needed to escape Earth’s atmosphere? A closer look reveals part of the answer. Like tiny brick walls, the boundaries between these microscopic grains help stop the motion of defects that could lead to cracking. Keeping grains small, therefore, helps keep materials like this alloy strong and intact. But under certain conditions, some grains can start to grow--and fast--putting an otherwise durable material, and all it protects, at risk of serious damage. While researchers have generally attributed rapid grain growth to a single, common mechanism, a team from Sandia National Laboratories suggests that not all fast-moving grains are created equally. That insight might force scientists and engineers to rethink how to make metals stronger—and safer. Abnormally fast-growing grains are an important topic in materials research because of the risk they pose to the structural integrity of metal parts..."
The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.
In this activity, students are introduced to faults. They will learn about …
In this activity, students are introduced to faults. They will learn about different kinds of faults and understand their relationship to earthquakes. The students will build cardboard models of the three different types of faults as they learn about how earthquakes are formed.
Feedback is the design technique where a part of the amplifier output …
Feedback is the design technique where a part of the amplifier output "feeds back" to the input of the amplifier. The overall effect creates a very stable gain determined by resistor ratios. Created by Willy McAllister.
This course will teach fundamentals of control design and analysis using state-space …
This course will teach fundamentals of control design and analysis using state-space methods. This includes both the practical and theoretical aspects of the topic. By the end of the course, you should be able to design controllers using state-space methods and evaluate whether these controllers are robust to some types of modeling errors and nonlinearities. You will learn to:
Design controllers using state-space methods and analyze using classical tools. Understand impact of implementation issues (nonlinearity, delay). Indicate the robustness of your control design. Linearize a nonlinear system, and analyze stability.
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