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Robotics Technology Degree
Monday, September 25, 2017

Robots are a way of the future. They can be found inside manufacturing and distribution centers and state-of-the-art factories and at Texas State Technical College.

Students can now enroll in Robotics Technology, one of four new programs being offered at TSTC’s Fort Bend County campus, and learn how to program and operate a fast-growing robotic population.

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Two 3D printers at the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases are changing the way educators, researchers and students approach a wide variety of challenges inside and outside of labs and classrooms.

Friday, September 1, 2017

Tech-Labs, a leading reseller of technical and vocational training equipment and curriculum in Texas and Oklahoma, has partnered with Desktop Metal, a company committed to making metal additive manufacturing accessible in education.

Career Tech Training Needed
Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Workers with industrial skills are in demand partly because the effort has been put into encouraging high school graduates pursue college degrees rather than train in industrial and other trades which has caused fields to face worker shortages. High schools and colleges have struggled to attract students to job-oriented classes ranging from welding to nursing.

Cyber Security
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
As the volume and rate of complex cyber-attacks such as malware, ransomware, DNS data exfiltration and phishing continue to rise exponentially, higher education institutions are now struggling to deal with a tsunami of threats. To add to the challenge, the vast majority of threats they face are engineered to target a specific institution and to exploit any vulnerabilities in its specific security...
Saturday, August 12, 2017

Being one of the lightest, most durable materials on the market, the new FDM Nylon12 Carbon Fiber material. Containing 35 percent chopped carbon-fiber by weight, and an ultimate tensile strength on the xz axis of nearly 11,000 psi (76Mpa), FDM Nylon 12CF offers the best stiffness-to-weight ratio among Stratasys FDM thermoplastics, meeting the advanced functional testing.

New CTE Trend - Fab Labs & Makerspaces
Monday, August 7, 2017

BELLE FOURCHE, S.D. — Earlier this month, the local school district of Belle Fourche convened a meeting to move forward on awarding a nearly $3 million bid for the construction of a proposed Career and Technical Education (CTE) building.

Monday, August 7, 2017

There is a genuine interest in developing wood-derived graphene materials into electrical conductors. Rice University introduces this ground-breaking research by using the Universal Laser Systems XLS10MWH platform. This XLS laser system and processing conditions are described in detail in the following article.

Augmented Reality: Does It Suit For Education?
Monday, July 31, 2017

Augmented Reality enhances different industries: entertainment, toys, social networks, furniture, advertising and marketing, and many others. The reason: augmented reality apps enable to incorporate digital objects into the physical world as if they were a part of it.

Artec Eva 3D scanner is used to develop ergonomic exoskeletons
Monday, July 31, 2017

Kevin Langlois, a PhD researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Free University of Brussels), believes that mankind is on the verge of a technological revolution that will radically change our way of life. Kevin is a member of the university’s Robotics & Multibody Mechanics (R&MM) research group, whose main area of focus is wearable robotics, such as powered exoskeletons.

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