Understanding Safety Engineering and Xtreme UL Experiments

One of UL's FSRI Fire Protection Research Engineer talks about the education necessary to become a fire protection engineer, the most significant challenges and favorite parts of his job. This video provides examples of careers in safety science and engineering and insights into the skills and knowledge necessary for a career in STEM.

This video demonstrate the way that lithium-ion batteries are tested to the extreme in the UL battery labs including: the crush test, blunted nail test, projectile test, and abusive overcharge test. Click on the test image to play the video. The videos is included in the full module or can be used separately from the module to show how batteries are tested in the UL labs to understand the extremes batteries can be taken to before posing a risk to consumers.

One of UL's FSRI Project Engineers talks about her job, what it's like to work on a research project, the subjects to study if you want to be a project engineer and her favorite parts of the job. This video provides examples of careers in safety science and engineering and insights into the skills and knowledge necessary for a career in STEM.

These Xplorlabs Portable Electric Power Planning Document will provide an overview for middle school teachers for the classroom investigations. Planning for investigations includes: teacher and student guides, video introduction of investigations, group size and roles, questions to explore, a problem to be solved, summary of the lab, and student outcomes as well as a decision tree for the engineering design section of the investigations. This resource is provided for educators to support planning of Portable Electric Power classroom investigations.