Where Power Comes From
Where Power Comes From: Hydropower, Clean Energy, and a Resilient Grid- Seminar Recording Nov 18th, 2025
Discover how today’s engineers and educators are powering the future!
Flip the Switch
In this tabletop game, students play the role of professional research scientists in the Bent Lab @ Stanford University, they choose a big, global problem that transistor technology is related to, and their goal is to improve transistor technology, using experimentation related to materials and s
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Modeling Power in Batteries with Linear Regressions
A fundamental aspect of how Deep Learning systems work is that they make predictions about how a function should fit some test dataset, evaluate the errors from that function to the test dataset, and modify that function to reduce the errors.
An Activity You Can't Resist
When thinned to two-dimensions, materials demonstrate unique optical and electrical characteristics that fall under the purview of condensed matter physics. The process of thinning bulk materials is called exfoliation with graphene being the most documented.
Modeling and Building Solar Cells
Students learn the basics of photovoltaic cells and create a whole-class kinetic model to explain the processes behind them. Students use this information to engineer a photovoltaic cell to generate the most electricity possible using different berry juices.
Design a Rack to Test the Electrical Output of a Windmill
The goal of this ETP is to engage students in a hands-on engineering project. This ETP is composed of two design challenges. The students should be divided into groups of 4.
Designing Energy Efficient and Cost Effective Solar Panels
In this series of lessons, students will engineer patterns of solar panels using low, medium, and high efficiency solar cells.
Conservation of Energy and Organics Photovoltaic Research
In this activity, students will learn that energy changes from one form to another, and that the total amount of energy in a closed system remains constant.