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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Assistive Technology: Fixing Humans
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Katsioloudis, Petros J.; Jones, Millie – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2013
The need for assistive technology--technology that assists persons with disabilities--is great. At no time has there been a greater need to provide assistive technologies than to assist the thousands of military veterans returning home from the Middle East with a range of physical and mental disabilities. Mobility impairment is a significant…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Physical Disabilities, Veterans, Physical Mobility
Green Transportation for a Green Earth
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Katsioloudis, Petros J.; Jones, Mildred V. – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2012
Transportation is one of the biggest contributors to the destruction of the environment. Results from environmental research and pursuant governmental regulations are changing the way companies do business and how transportation systems address the future. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been at the forefront in leading environmental…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Transportation, Energy Conservation, Fuels
The VisPort Project: Visualization of Port Logistics
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Katsioloudis, Petros J.; Watson, Ginger – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2011
There is concern about the diminishing availability of skilled personnel that can operate in the wide variety of disciplines associated with port operations. Increasing cargo volume, combined with a shrinking workforce, could potentially create alarming situations in the future, hence the motivation to publicize to current students the breadth and…
Descriptors: Careers, Visualization, Problem Solving, Employment Opportunities
Rethinking the Development of Weapons and Their Impact
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Katsioloudis, Petros J.; Jones, Mildred V. – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2011
As one reads about the history of humans, he/she sees very early on that humans are naturally "tool users." More specifically, humans used tools as a means of subsistence and survival. Even today humans use tools to extend their capabilities beyond imagination. These tools are even used as weapons. However primitive, these early weapons would soon…
Descriptors: Weapons, Pollution, Hazardous Materials, Environmental Education
Improve or Perish, Revisited--Again
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Moye, Johnny J.; Katsioloudis, Petros J. – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2011
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. One does not have to be a historian to realize the truth in those words. It is true of words written years ago concerning the health and well being of the technology and engineering education profession. M. Ray Karnes (1959) published "A Major Problem in Education: Improve or Perish"…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Technology Education, Industrial Arts, General Education
Breathing Like a Fish
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Katsioloudis, Petros J. – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2010
Being able to dive and breathe underwater has been a challenge for thousands of years. In 1980, Fuji Systems of Tokyo developed a series of prototype gills for divers as a way of demonstrating just how good its membranes are. Even though gill technology has not yet reached the point where recipients can efficiently use implants to dive underwater,…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Technology Education, Water, Aquatic Sports