http://www.oercommons.org/browse/keyword/rescue daily 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.oercommons.org/courses/introduction-to-robotics-fall-2005 This course provides an overview of robot mechanisms, dynamics, and intelligent controls. Topics include planar and spatial kinematics, and motion planning; mechanism design for manipulators and mobile robots, multi-rigid-body dynamics, 3D graphic simulation; control design, actuators, and sensors; wireless networking, task modeling, human-machine interface, and embedded software. Weekly laboratories provide experience with servo drives, real-time control, and embedded software. Students will design and fabricate working robotic systems in a group-based term project. Asada, Harry Science and Technology 2008-01-27T10:00:48 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/scuba-spring-2007 This course will thoroughly educate the successful student with the knowledge and skills necessary to be a certified beginning SCUBA diver. The prerequisite for the course is passing the MIT SCUBA swim test and demonstrating a "comfort level" in the water. At the end of the class, students will attempt to pass the certification exam to become certified divers. The class is taught in two parts each week: a classroom session and a pool session. The classroom sessions along with the reading material will provide the student with the knowledge necessary to pass the written exam. At the pool, the water skills are taught in progressions that build on the previous skills, making the difficult skills seem easy. Taylor, Halston Science and Technology 2008-01-27T10:00:48 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/string-theory-strings-to-the-rescue This video segment from NOVA discusses the challenge of unifying the force of gravity and the forces described by quantum mechanics into a single theory of unification. WGBH Educational Foundation Science and Technology 2006-11-15T20:57:00 Course Related Materials