Cancelling Noise
In 1978, Amar Bose, CEO and founder of the world-renowned Bose Corporation, was frustrated by the inability to hear good music in a noisy airplane cabin. Then he got curious and wondered if there was a way to separate what one wanted to hear from what one didn’t. And the rest is… well, watch this 3-minute movie.
Running time 3:00 minutes.
Creating Cars
Your students like to ride in them, plan to drive one and hope to own one, but do they know they could also have a job designing cars? Inspire them by taking them inside Ford Motor Company to see how designers and engineers use math to steer the direction of their concept cars.
Running time 5:00 minutes.
Fish Farming
Aquaculture is a farming technology that could help feed the world's growing population.
Running time 1:56 minutes.
Flights of Imagination
With human-powered flight, solar-powered flight, solar-powered stratospheric flight, the fastest solar powered car at the first World Solar Challenge race, the electric car prototype that became GM's EV1, and numerous other feats of engineering and innovation to his credit, visionary Paul MacCready (September 25, 1925 – August 28, 2007) was one of the truly great engineers of the 20th Century.
Running time 3:07 minutes.
Inventing with Polygons
Inventor Chuck Hoberman uses polygons to build amazing expandable structures.
Running time 2:29 minutes.
Solar Powered Cars
Using the energy it takes to run a hair dryer, this solar-powered car travels 200 miles at speeds of 50 to 65 mph. Meet the team of students who built it.
Running time 3:35 minutes.
Undersea Treasure
A probability map, constructed by a mathematician, locates a sunken U.S. ship with the largest sunken gold treasure in U.S. history, and reveals even greater wonders.
Running time 5:40 minutes.
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