Bridging the gap between industry and academia

As cloud technologies continue to help organizations transform at a rapid pace, employees with the necessary cloud skills are in high demand. According to LinkedIn data, cloud computing is the number one hard skill companies need most.

AWS Academy provides higher education institutions with a free, ready-to-teach cloud computing curriculum that prepares students to pursue industry-recognized certifications and in-demand cloud jobs. Our curriculum helps educators stay at the forefront of AWS Cloud innovation so that they can equip students with the skills they need to get hired in one of the fastest-growing industries.

In this lesson students define macro- and micronutrients and describe the nutritional importance of nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus to plants.  They also identify the meaning of the three numbers on a bag of fertilizer.

Students are introduced to biofuels, biological engineers, algae and how they grow (photosynthesis), and what parts of algae can be used for biofuel (biomass from oils, starches, cell wall sugars). Through this lesson, plants—and specifically algae—are presented as an energy solution. Students learn that breaking apart algal cell walls enables access to oil, starch, and cell wall sugars for biofuel production. Students compare/contrast biofuels and fossil fuels. They learn about the field of biological engineering, including what biological engineers do. A 20-slide PowerPoint® presentation is provided that supports students taking notes in the Cornell format. Short pre- and post-quizzes are provided. This lesson prepares students to conduct the associated activity in which they make and then eat edible algal cell models.

Students learn about linear programming (also called linear optimization) to solve engineering design problems. As they work through a word problem as a class, they learn about the ideas of constraints, feasibility and optimization related to graphing linear equalities. Then they apply this information to solve two practice engineering design problems related to optimizing materials and cost by graphing inequalities, determining coordinates and equations from their graphs, and solving their equations. It is suggested that students conduct the associated activity, Optimizing Pencils in a Tray, before this lesson, although either order is acceptable.

Students define and classify alloys as mixtures, while comparing and contrasting the properties of alloys to those of pure substances. Students learn that engineers investigate the structures and properties of alloys for biomedical and transportation applications. Pre- and post-assessment handouts are provided.

This set of anatomy videos illustrating parts of the human body was created under a Round Eleven Mini-Grant for Ancillary Materials Creation.

Topics include:

Axial Skeleton
Appendicular Skeleton
Muscles
Nervous System
Anatomy of the Senses

In this less the students will:Define the term Beer’s Law. Utilize spectrophotometry to analyze unknown protein samples using a standard curve.

IN this lesson the students will:Conduct an ELISA analysis to determine the presence or absence of infection.

In this lesson the students will:Define the terms immunology, ELISA, antigen, antibodies, and immunohistochemistry.Describe how the ELISA process works.Evaluate various applications of immunohistochemical methods.

In this lesson the students will:Define the terms amino acid, protein, peptide bond, polypeptide, primary structure, secondary structure, tertiary structure, and quaternary structure.  Categorize amino acids based on structure. Describe the 4 different levels of protein structure.

In this lesson the students will:Define the terms assay, Biuret assay, Lowry assay, and Bradford assay. Describe some of the different types of protein assays.Conduct and analyze the result of a protein assay.

In this lesson the students will:Define the term overexpression.Transform bacteria for protein production and isolation analysis.

In this lesson the students will:Define the terms SDS-PAGE and sample buffer.Perform gel electrophoresis on transformed bacteria using SDS-PAGE.Interpret the results of gel electrophoresis of transformed bacteria using SDS-PAGE.

In this lesson the students will:Define the terms column chromatography, elution, eluent, and eluate.Culture bacteria for future analysis through protein extraction.

In this lesson the students will:Define the terms centrifugation, pellet, supernatant, and lysis. Lyse bacterial cells for future analysis through protein extraction.

In this lesson the students will:Define the terms affinity chromatography, ion exchange chromatography, size-exclusion chromatography, and hydrophobic interaction chromatography (HIC).Extract proteins using column chromatography.

In this lesson the students will:Define the terms protein precipitation and protein solubilization.Examine the advantages and disadvantages of protein precipitation and solubilization.Precipitate and solubilize a protein using a standards operation procedure.

In this lesson the students will:Define the terms Central Dogma of Molecular Biology and protein synthesis.Describe the steps of protein synthesis.Transcribe and translate DNA sequences.

In this lesson the students will:Define the terms proteomics, taxonomy, phylogeny, taxonomy, primary antibody, and secondary antibody. Prepare samples for future protein analysis.