Automation Teacher Resources

Blockchain technology's core characteristics include decentralization, transparency, immutability, and automation. These elements can be applied to various industries, creating a multitude of use cases. Here are what we believe to be the...

A comprehensive look at the 50 years of nuclear testing in Nevada through oral histories of the participants. In addition to the histories, the site includes a timeline, information about the test sites, and videos.

Robotics Association site containing links to technical papers, educational resources, news, forums and other information.

In Module 4 Lesson 2 of this course on spreadsheets, students learn how to use conditional formatting to more easily analyze data. Includes slideshow tutorials.

Allows students to submit a request for a telescope in England to view a portion of the sky. The telescope is robotically controlled via the internet.

John Green discusses what is arguably the most revolutionary of modern revolutions, the Industrial Revolution. [11:04]

An interview with David Timis who studies the impact of artificial intelligence on the future of work. He discusses how youth can prepare themselves. Includes a 30-minute video. (Published August 30, 2020)

An animated presentation depicting the Fred Sanger method of automated cycle sequencing reactions of DNA.

In this activity, students test if a significant relationship exists between a bivariate data set, and then calculate the confidence and predictive intervals. They also improve the interval-prediction capabilities by automating the process.

Students use regression to forecast values from a data. They study exponential smoothing. They also use the program FORECAST to automate a multiplicative model.

Online research from the University of California, Berkeley focusing on robots for minimally invasive surgery, motion planning, and manufacturing automation.

A versatile Revolutionary-era inventor looked for ways to improve and automate industry, and created an engine that would power hundreds of new businesses in the young nation.

Smith got the idea for FedEx while still an undergraduate at Yale. In a 1965 economic term paper, he correctly observed that as society became more automated, companies like IBM and Xerox would need a faster, more dependable delivery...

This System-Wide Automated Network serves 77 libraries in the Chicago suburbs. It's instructive in how a computer catalog of library materials works.

With automated tools and instructional support, find out how to become a "learning engineer" - working to apply what's known about learning, to the real challenges of developing affordable, reliable, available, data-rich competency-based...

Edmund Cartwright is featured in this brief biography for automating the textile industry with a power loom.

An automated lesson will engage student's learning how to describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text. An introduction to the concept precedes a...

Explore introductory examples to learn about the basics of feedback control systems. Learn how feedback control is used to automate processes, and discover how it deals with system variations and unexpected environmental changes. The...

Computer programs are full of repetition, since our programs automate and simulate the world around us. Programmers use for loops to repeat a set of instructions a specific number of times.

This article from the Samuel Centre for Social Connectedness discusses how technology has altered humans' interactions in their daily lives. Machines and automation have replaced our interactions with service people. It looks at the...

Learn about this career in advanced manufacturing in this video. Explore how an advanced manufacturing engineer is involved in developing complete automation systems for the auto industry including computer-controlled mechanical systems...

Descriptions and photos of the wide variety of robotics projects at Columbia University.

Spark Notes gives a brief overview of the 1950s from consumerism and conformity to poverty to youthful rebellion. A good review of this important decade in American history.

A look at the various types of unemployment and what conditions are necessary for an economy to be at full employment.