The National Center for Optics and Photonics Education OP-TEC will be offering a hybrid, online faculty development course. The course will cover OP-TEC’s Fundamentals of Light and Lasers. Each of the six modules will be taught online over a two-week period with a high level of self-paced instruction combined with an interactive component facilitated by e-mail exchanges and chat room discussions. Modules include Nature and Properties of Light, Optical Handling and Positioning, Light Sources and Laser Safety, Basic Geometrical Optics, Basic Physical Optics and Principles of Lasers. This course is being offered at no charge to high school, community college and technical college faculty interested in teaching a basic photonics course. Participants who successfully complete the 12-week course and 3-day laboratory session will receive a certificate of completion from OP-TEC. Participants will also be awarded 9 CEUs from Camden County College. The course is scheduled to start September 21, 2009. The six modules will be taught over a 12-week period. After the completion of Module 6, all participants will spend a 3-day period at Camden County College in Blackwood, NJ, where they will have the opportunity to conduct all laboratory experiments included in the course and discuss with experienced instructors best practices for teaching the materials. This laboratory session will be scheduled for June 2010 and will be arranged at a time that is mutually agreeable to the participants. The online course and materials will be offered at no charge. Participants will be responsible for all travel and lodging expenses to attend the 3-day laboratory session. To complete the course, participants must have access to a computer, printer, telephone/cell phone and internet access. Participants will utilize the Blackboard system. Applications are accepted online or by mail or fax. Online and printable application forms are available at www.op tec.org/online/faculty. Applications must be received by September 16, 2009. For more information, please visit www.op-tec.org/online/faculty, call 254-741-8338 x394 or e-mail [email protected].
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The International Annual Meetings of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) bring together 3,500+ people from 50+ countries representing academia, government and private industry, including a large contingent of undergraduate and graduate students.
The International Congress on Applications of Lasers & Electro-Optics (ICALEO) has a 27 year history as the conference where researchers and end-users meet to review the state-of-the art in laser materials processing and predict where the future will lead. From its inception, ICALEO has been devoted to the field of laser materials processing and is viewed as the premier source of technical information in the field.
The only national Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Conference in 2009 brings together representatives of 11 Federal agencies with innovative, high technology companies from across the national. The conference highlights renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies, and features one-on-one meetings with agencies, speed networking, and workshops related to proposal and corporate development.
(3 days)
BostonMA
See http://www.discoveryontarget.com/ for more information on concurrent tracks and recommended pre-conference short courses for Cambridge HealthTech Institute's 7th annual International Discovery on Target conference.
(4 days)
DenverCO80202
We are living in challenging times, when the need for uncommon thinking is unprecedented. You have told us you look to EDUCAUSE for insight, thought leadership, and community interaction. One event delivers all this, and more: the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference, where you will be able to tap into an expansive pool of the best thinking in higher education IT. Maximize the value of your travel dollars and join us November 3–6, 2009 in Denver, Colorado. We're offering the richest member-driven program ever, keenly focused on providing you with the kind of tangible value you can take back to campus and use all year long.
The objective of this workshop is to identify key industry drivers for advanced manufacturing technology innovation, and the measurements and standards related R&D needs required to enable these innovations. Drivers, needs, and technologies that span multiple manufacturing sectors are of particular interest, as are needs in infrastructural technology areas including measurements, performance metrics, test methods, and standards.
Baton Rouge Community College BRCC is pleased to host a National Science Foundation NSF funded South Carolina Advanced Technological Education SC ATE Outreach Workshop. We invite a team departmental or interdisciplinary from your institution to join us for this exciting professional development opportunity: Successful Practices You Can Use and NSF/ATE Partnerships for Funding Technical Education. At the workshop, representatives from the SC ATE National Resource Center for Expanding Excellence in Technician Education, along with Louisiana ATE partners, will share best practices in building technician programs and recruiting and retaining students, including successful collaborative teaching strategies and active learning techniques for teaching science and technology. In addition to learning about SC ATE-delivered teaching modules for technician education, your team will investigate avenues of NSF support for technician education at your institution and explore opportunities for collaborative ventures with other Louisiana institutions. Louisiana community college educators, with the support of Advanced Technological Education ATE grants from the National Science Foundation, can lead innovative efforts to improve STEM education and technician training in Louisiana, and ultimately the economic prosperity and productivity of our nation’s workforce. Each participant will be provided a $100 stipend and institutional teams will be given travel support. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. The deadline for receipt of the application forms participant application, team application and departmental endorsement is September 1, 2009. We hope to see your team in November!
This is the second part of a two part workshop while it might be helpful to have attended the first part it is not a requirement. In this hands-on workshop, we explore placing multimedia content onto a blog from other sources, such as streaming video, YouTube, pictures and other multimedia content. This area is known as Mashup. Online content will be available for participants to continue the learning processes. When you complete this workshop you will be able to impress friends and colleagues on your abilities of making dynamic content that can be used in your classes. Instructor: Vince DiNoto Workshop will meet from 9:00 am - 12:00 pm in Room 108 of the Business Building. This workshop will be held on the Southwest Campus of Jefferson Community and Technical College. The college is located at 1000 Community College Drive, Louisville, KY 40272.
(6 days)
OrlandoFL
The American Evaluation Association invites evaluators from around the world to attend its annual conference to be held Wednesday, November 11, through Saturday, November 14, 2009 in Orlando, Florida. We are fortunate to be at the world class Rosen Shingle Creek Resort, providing us with a beautiful venue and context for learning from one another as well as building in some time for relaxation and fun.
AEA's annual meeting is expected to bring together approximately 2500 evaluation practitioners, academics, and students, and represents a unique opportunity to gather with professional colleagues in a supportive, invigorating, atmosphere.
The conference is broken down into 41 Topical Strands that examine the field from the vantage point of a particular methodology, context, or issue of interest to the field as well as the Presidential Strand highlighting this year's Presidential Theme of Context and Evaluation. Presentations may explore the conference theme or any aspect of the full breadth and depth of evaluation theory and practice.
AEA's annual meeting is expected to bring together approximately 2500 evaluation practitioners, academics, and students, and represents a unique opportunity to gather with professional colleagues in a supportive, invigorating, atmosphere.
The conference is broken down into 41 Topical Strands that examine the field from the vantage point of a particular methodology, context, or issue of interest to the field as well as the Presidential Strand highlighting this year's Presidential Theme of Context and Evaluation. Presentations may explore the conference theme or any aspect of the full breadth and depth of evaluation theory and practice.
Led by nationally known lean facilitator Mike Rothmeier, participants will be guided through an interactive process of (1) understanding the value of going green to the bottom line, (2) identifying quick wins for their organization, and (3) learning how to create a “sustainable” organization.
Who Should Attend?
Heads of operations or maintenance, Lean facilitators, “Green Team” members, Anyone interested in learning how easy-to-implement “green” changes can yield big savings
Who Should Attend?
Heads of operations or maintenance, Lean facilitators, “Green Team” members, Anyone interested in learning how easy-to-implement “green” changes can yield big savings
The 2009 Annual Conference of the Association of Technology, Management, and Applied Engineering (ATMAE) will bring together over 200 presenters and over 500 attendees in Louisville, Kentucky for research presentations, workshops, student competitions and other events. The conference also includes seven workshops on topics ranging from program accreditation and scholarly publishing, to PID Tuning and Value Stream Mapping Simulation (the VSM Simulation workshop, “The Pizza Game”, on Thursday November 13, features presenter Bob Petruska, the Continuous Improvement Manager for the Schwan Food Company.) Attendees at the conference are students, faculty , and industry personnel from over 75 two-year and four-year colleges, universities, and companies throughout the U.S. ATMAE is the recognized specialized accrediting agency for non-engineering degree 2-year, 4-year and Masters degree technology, technology management, engineering technology and applied engineering programs in regionally or nationally accredited institutions in the United States, and the ATMAE Board of Accreditation meets at the conference for accreditation hearings and a business meeting on Tuesday November 10 and Wednesday November 11.
The University of Maryland University College (UMUC) Center for Security Studies invites you to a special, free event, Our National Cybersecurity: Emerging Challenges and Strategies, featuring a keynote speech by Dale Meyerrose, the first CIO for the National Intelligence Community and current vice president and general manager for Cyberspace Solutions at Harris Corporation.
"It is hard to overstate cyberspace's importance, its ubiquity and its impact to national security, banking, manufacturing, goods and services, energy, air traffic control, medical care, food supply, knowledge and life's ordinary routines," says Meyerrose. "The time has come for us to have a serious public discourse about it."
Who Should Attend:
Students, faculty, educators, policymakers, government officials, military personnel, defense contractors, law enforcement officials, interagency and private sector communities working and interested in cybersecurity, information assurance and homeland security should attend. This seminar offers an in-depth presentation and discussion about the United States cyberinfrastructure, the breadth of our information architecture and how together they prevent security breaches and foreign and domestic attacks.
A reception prior to the keynote speech will serve refreshments and offer the opportunity for attendees to network with professionals and experts in the cybersecurity field.
"It is hard to overstate cyberspace's importance, its ubiquity and its impact to national security, banking, manufacturing, goods and services, energy, air traffic control, medical care, food supply, knowledge and life's ordinary routines," says Meyerrose. "The time has come for us to have a serious public discourse about it."
Who Should Attend:
Students, faculty, educators, policymakers, government officials, military personnel, defense contractors, law enforcement officials, interagency and private sector communities working and interested in cybersecurity, information assurance and homeland security should attend. This seminar offers an in-depth presentation and discussion about the United States cyberinfrastructure, the breadth of our information architecture and how together they prevent security breaches and foreign and domestic attacks.
A reception prior to the keynote speech will serve refreshments and offer the opportunity for attendees to network with professionals and experts in the cybersecurity field.
(4 days)
Las VegasNV89109
The American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges was founded in 1974. It is the only organization exclusively devoted to providing a national forum for the improvement of mathematics instruction in the first two years of college. AMATYC has approximately 2,500 individual members and more than 100 institutional members in the United States and Canada. Educators in 47 states and one Canadian province are represented through AMATYC's 44 affiliate organizations. AMATYC provides professional development opportunities for educators interested in the first two years of collegiate mathematics instruction through their annual conference held this year in Las Vegas, NV.
(2 days)
RochesterNY14602
Optics and photonics applications are rapidly transforming the way we work and live. Photonics, and its applications, involve the cutting-edge use of lasers, optics, fiber-optics and electro-optical devices. Photonics has many applications in manufacturing, medicine, communications, solid-state lighting, and other high-tech fields. Thus, it represents a broad, commercially viable area in which American employers require a steady supply of well-qualified technicians.
The demand for photonics technicians in the United States is great and that demand is growing faster than the pool of qualified candidates. Since most of the skills needed for photonics workers at the technician level are obtainable through AAS degree programs, community and technical colleges provide the optimum environment for significantly increasing the number of qualified personnel available to U.S. employers in technical fields. Two-year colleges must also partner with high schools to design photonics career pathways to lead students through well planned secondary course sequences and into articulated two-year postsecondary programs. The creation of this secondary-to postsecondary “pipeline” of students is critical to the success of producing enough qualified technicians to meet industry needs.
In an effort to support and promote the inclusion of optics and photonics applications in secondary and postsecondary programs, OP-TEC, the National Center for Optics and Photonics Education, offers a free two-day Workshop on Optics and Photonics Education.
The demand for photonics technicians in the United States is great and that demand is growing faster than the pool of qualified candidates. Since most of the skills needed for photonics workers at the technician level are obtainable through AAS degree programs, community and technical colleges provide the optimum environment for significantly increasing the number of qualified personnel available to U.S. employers in technical fields. Two-year colleges must also partner with high schools to design photonics career pathways to lead students through well planned secondary course sequences and into articulated two-year postsecondary programs. The creation of this secondary-to postsecondary “pipeline” of students is critical to the success of producing enough qualified technicians to meet industry needs.
In an effort to support and promote the inclusion of optics and photonics applications in secondary and postsecondary programs, OP-TEC, the National Center for Optics and Photonics Education, offers a free two-day Workshop on Optics and Photonics Education.
In a special partnership with the North Texas Regional Community College Consortium, the Center for Digital Education and the Convergence Technology Center are proud to announce the fifth administrative and instructional technology conference.
Running concurrently, with the North Texas Regional Community College Forum will be the Second Annual Green IT Summit, hosted by Convergence Technology Center, a regional center of excellence funded by the National Science Foundation. This can’t miss event will be held as a special professional development track. This day-long forum will feature inspirational speakers, workshops and an exhibit area. The focus of the day’s events is on:
* Technology integration in the classroom
* Impact of Green IT on businesses, college curriculum and faculty development
* Enhancing a college's ability to service its students
* Increasing efficiencies in administrative use of technology
Attendees will have an opportunity to network with each other and other groups, organizations and companies.
The conference is being offered at no charge to educators, school administrators or non-profit entities interested in technology in higher education.
Running concurrently, with the North Texas Regional Community College Forum will be the Second Annual Green IT Summit, hosted by Convergence Technology Center, a regional center of excellence funded by the National Science Foundation. This can’t miss event will be held as a special professional development track. This day-long forum will feature inspirational speakers, workshops and an exhibit area. The focus of the day’s events is on:
* Technology integration in the classroom
* Impact of Green IT on businesses, college curriculum and faculty development
* Enhancing a college's ability to service its students
* Increasing efficiencies in administrative use of technology
Attendees will have an opportunity to network with each other and other groups, organizations and companies.
The conference is being offered at no charge to educators, school administrators or non-profit entities interested in technology in higher education.
(7 days)
PortlandOR
SC09 will be the 22nd consecutive year of the SC Conference series – once again featuring an exceptional Technical Program, industry and research exhibits, Education Program and many other activities. For 2009, we have added three new Technology Thrust areas: Bio-Computing, Sustainability, and the 3D Internet. WHAT'S NEW • Al Gore to Keynote 22nd Annual Supercomputing Conference, SC09 Read more • Dr. Leroy Hood Selected as Plenary Speaker for the 22nd Annual Supercomputing Conference, SC09 • SC09 Masterworks Program to Present Compelling Lineup of Experts Read • Intel Senior Fellow and CTO, Justin Rattner, to Deliver Opening Address • SC Makes Tradeshow Week Top 200
(5 days)
NashvilleTN
Choose from more than 80 professional NAAE professional development workshops at this year's convention to improve your teaching, your program, and your chapter.
Hands on Nanofabrication Workshop for Educators
http://www.cneu.psu.edu/pdfs/2009NovHandsOnNanoWorkshopForEd.pdf
(3 days)
State CollegePA16802
This workshop will be an exploration of the world of nanotechnology. Participants will learn about the growing applications of nanotechnology in many industries including the biotechnology, MEMS, optoelectronics, chemical, and nanoelectronics industries. The basics of nanofabrication processes and tools will be covered and emphasized through processing labs held in the class 10 cleanrooms of the Penn State Nanofabrication Facility and the CNEU Teaching Cleanrooms as well as the CNEU Teaching Cleanroom. This three-day workshop is broken down into the daily morning lectures by nationally recognized Penn State researchers and engineering staff and into afternoon lab sessions in nanofabrication.
(3 days)
BirminghamAL35203
The Alabama Counseling Association is an educational, scientific, and professional organization whose members are dedicated to the enhancement of human development throughout the life span. Association members recognize diversity in our society and embrace a cross-cultural approach in support of the worth, dignity, potential, and uniqueness of each individual.
Congratulations on your new ATE grant! It's time to formalize and implement your evaluation plans. This webinar is aimed at helping new grantees and their evaluators get their evaluation work off to a good start. Join us on Wednesday November 18, from 1 - 2:30 PM (ET). Register for an informative and interactive 90 minutes. The webinar is free of charge.
Looking to formalize your evaluator-client relationship with a contract? We will share materials that can help shape a clear agreement.
Thinking about your evaluation budget? We'll offer guidelines and tips for maximizing evaluation cost effectiveness.
Still need an evaluator? We'll show you how to access directories of evaluators, offer guidelines for issuing an RFP for evaluation services, and suggest questions you should ask a potential evaluator.
Looking to formalize your evaluator-client relationship with a contract? We will share materials that can help shape a clear agreement.
Thinking about your evaluation budget? We'll offer guidelines and tips for maximizing evaluation cost effectiveness.
Still need an evaluator? We'll show you how to access directories of evaluators, offer guidelines for issuing an RFP for evaluation services, and suggest questions you should ask a potential evaluator.
(3 days)
NashvilleTN37214
The Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) is the largest national education association dedicated to the advancement of education that prepares youth and adults for careers. The conference provides speakers, presentations, and workshops dedicated to professional development and will be held Nov. 19-21, 2009 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort Hotel & Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee.
Join the GeoTech Center as Amy Ballard of Central New Mexico explains how to get your students engaged in the SkillsUSA National Geospatial Challenge. This hallmark event occurs every June in Kansas City, MO at the headquarters of SkillsUSA. Amy Ballard is the program director of the GIS program at Central New Mexico Community College and a member of the GeoTech Center team. Her students have successfully compete in the SkillsUSA competition, winning Silver and Bronze in the 2009 event. Event will include a Powerpoint presentation followed by question and answer.
(2 days)
MontgomeryAL36104
The 2009 Annual Conference is scheduled for November 23 and 24 at the Montgomery Renaissance Hotel and Convention Center.
The Premier Telecommunications Event for Industry Professionals and Academics from Companies, Governmental Agencies, and Universities around the World Themed "Riding the Wave to Global Connectivity," IEEE GLOBECOM 2009 covers the entire range of communications technologies, offering in-depth information on the latest developments in voice, data, image, and multimedia. Hotel: www.hiltonhawaiianvillage.com 2005 Kalia Rd Honolulu, HI 96815 (808) 955-5139