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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
Throughout the two-day symposium participants will break out into a number of workshops, interactive presentations, and roundtables, where they will have the opportunity to discuss cutting edge environmental education research ideas and policy. Results of current environmental education research will be presented in a series of more formal presentations and posters and several plenary discussions will focus on current trends in environmental education research.
This curriculum presents a comprehensive overview of networking; from fundamentals to advanced applications and services. It is based on the top-down approach to networking that is popular in many colleges and universities.

The course emphasizes concepts and skills required to design networks, while providing opportunities for practical application and hands-on experience by teaching students how to install, operate, and maintain networks.

Students will acquire skill through hands on and virtual labs using the Cisco Packet tracer.
OP-TEC, the National Center for Optics and Photonics Education, is a National Science Foundation (NSF) National Center of Excellence with the stated mission of promoting photonics education and assisting colleges around the country in developing and implementing educational programs that support expansion of this critical new technology.

As part of our efforts to provide faculty development in optics and photonics, 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

Fundamentals of Light and Lasers Modules:

* Module 1: Nature and Properties of Light
* Module 2: Optical Handling and Positioning
* Module 3: Light Sources and Laser Safety
* Module 4: Basic Geometrical Optics
* Module 5: Basic Physical Optics
* Module 6: Principles of Lasers

This online 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 Indian Hills Community College.

Next course date: Starts March 1, 2010 (12-week course runs 3/1/10 – 5/21/10)
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 Indian Hills Community College (Ottumwa, Iowa), 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. The laboratory session will be scheduled for June 17-19, 2010.

(5 days)

San FranciscoCA94103

RSA Conference continues to play an integral role in keeping security professionals across the globe connected and educated. The focus on cyberthreats grows each day and RSA Conference is the educational and training environment to prepare you to meet these challenges. Mark your calendars and be sure to attend RSA

Venue: The Moscone Center 747 Howard Street San Francisco, CA 94103 Phone: 415.974.4000 Fax: 415.974.4073
The Triennial is the largest aquaculture conference and tradeshow held in the world
with nearly 4000 attendees from over 80 countries and even more countries are
expected to have attendees at AQUACULTURE 2010. The Triennial combines the
annual meetings of the National Shellfisheries Association, Fish Culture
Section of the American Fisheries Society and the World Aquaculture
Society. In addition to the annual meetings of the main sponsors, look what else is
happening at AQUACULTURE 2010!
• AQUACULTURE AMERICA - Annual Meeting of the U.S. Chapter of World Aquaculture
Society, the National Aquaculture Association, and the U.S. Aquaculture Suppliers
Association.
• Annual Meeting of the American Tilapia Association
• Annual Meeting of the Striped Bass Growers Association
• Annual Meeting of the U.S. Trout Farmers Association
• Special sessions organized by Aquacultural Engineering Society and International
Association of Aquaculture Economics and Management
• Many other meetings of work groups, government agencies and related aquaculture
activities
• Program with technical sessions and producer's seminars covering virtually all
species grown by aquaculture
• AND - look at all of the Associate Sponsors on the cover who are participating in
the program development!
The last Triennial was held in 2007 in San Antonio where it was pronounced a huge
success by the nearly 4000 people who attended. Don’t miss this Triennial!

(3 days)

OrlandoFL34746

The New Learning Technologies conference continues SALT’s practice of bringing together senior professionals from government, industry, academia and the military to present the latest developments in the field of learning and training technologies.
Join Randall Lloyd, Agriculture Awareness Coordinator, land owner, and turbine owner for a presentation about the Twin Groves Wind Farm site in eastern McLean County. This is the largest wind farm owned by Horizon Wind Energy east of the Mississippi River. Learn about wind turbines and the role McLean County has in today’s economy and renewable energy production. Mr. Lloyd will present a narrated PowerPoint describing the development, construction, and operations of the Twin Groves Wind Farm, home to four wind turbines. Randy’s involvement as the owner of farmland has expanded his interest in defining the partnership between production agriculture and renewable energy. To date more than 1,000 people from all parts of the United States and 43 foreign countries have found Mr. Lloyd’s presentation the be engaging and enlightening.
Exploring the Synergy between structural health and human health monitoring

The vision of this ERC is Revolutionizing Metallic Biomaterials and the underlying technologies.

This will lead to engineered systems that will interface with the human body to prolong and improve quality of life.

The Center will also develop a creative, innovative and globally competitive diverse workforce for the U.S. biomedical implant industry, well-prepared for the multidisciplinary and global challenges and opportunities of the new millennium.
Education Plan

The education and outreach activities are dedicated to the goal of developing a vibrant, diverse workforce well-prepared for the multidisciplinary and global challenges and opportunities offered by bioengineering - projected to have the largest increase in jobs over the next decade and attracting the highest rate of participation by women and other minorities. This goal will be accomplished through carefully planned programs for pre-college education, curricular education of undergraduate and graduate students including the development of a bioengineering program at North Carolina A & T State University and professional education and outreach at all levels. The programs are designed to promote the growth of a technically-competent new millennial workforce armed with the global and entrepreneurial mind set essential to advance into leadership positions in industry, government and academia.

(3 days)

MontereyCA93940

The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) will hold its 14th annual conference, FULL SPEED AHEAD, March 8-10, 2010, at the Hyatt Monterey, in Monterey, CA. For three days, the K-20 research and education community from California will come together, with many of their colleagues from around the world, for presentations, demonstrations, and keynote speakers illustrating the value of the high-performance networking made possible by the California Research & Education Network to their communities.

(4 days)

King of PrussiaPA19406

Two-Day Trade Show for Serious Buyers The Eastern wine industry waits all year to buy at this show. Over 330 exhibitor booths. Vendors boast big sales. Buyers boast big purchases. Includes buffet lunch 3/11.

Information to Save Money, Make Money Multi-track conference sessions in viticulture, enology, finance, management, and marketing are designed to increase your knowledge, expand your profit, and put money back in your pocket.

Networking, Networking See old friends and make new ones. Develop business contacts and gather ideas from industry peers.

It's a Social Affair Attend the Welcome Wine Reception (bring a bottle of your winery's finest to share), Keynote Speaker Lunch, and Best of the East Grand Gala where you will taste gold-medal winners from the 2009 Int'l Eastern Wine Competition.

Wineries Unlimited is Good Value We've dropped our early bird rates to save you even more when you register early. Choose the Full Package registration option for your best overall value and savings. Plus, if you book your travel through Avis rental car and American Airlines you'll save up to 15% on select travel dates. See complete details under "travel" on our web site.
It is no surprise that jobs are rapidly changing, but how does one keep pace and respond to the changes? This webinar is a great opportunity for teachers and students to hear from industry experts regarding what they expect and desire of graduates.
This workshop is an introductory workshop that will discuss the theory of how and why to create instructional video. The participants will learn the basic workings of a video camera and voice over. In the workshop the participants will use free movie editing software to create a simple video. Due to the time limitations of the workshops the participants will work with stock video, participants will learn how to put titles on the video, use Powerpoint for graphics, add images to the video and put music onto the video. Additional material will be posted online for the participants to continue the learning process including step by step video.

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.

Cyber Defense and Disaster Recovery Conference 2010: Protecting Yourself and Your Business from International Threats In 2010, we will address the very present and ever growing risk to businesses and individuals from international cyber threats. Most foreign intelligence services that pose a risk to the United States have moved to an asymmetric posture, using both cyber-based and physical contact methods to gather intelligence information to gain a technological and/or military advantage. This asymmetric attack manifests itself in a variety of ways: direct attacks on major computer networks to steal information; compromising of key persons through e-mail and social networking on the Internet who may or may not be aware of their assistance to the adversary; and physically contacting U.S. persons both at home and while on foreign travel to compromise them and/or their electronic devices, among others. Due to the "take all" attitude of foreign intelligence services and the insiders they compromise, no one is immune it is important for all of us to maintain a healthy respect for the privacy of our personal and business electronics and information in the global economy. We will have 8 speakers approach the theme from different perspectives. Our keynote speaker is Michael Davis, co author of the high regarded Hacking Exposed.

(7 days)

Celebrate American Agriculture!
Ag Week: March 14-20, 2010
Ag Day: March 20, 2010
CSEC is currently offering a series of five instructor training
workshops in three different locations. The workshops are for CSEC member institutions in the CSEC eight state region. These workshops are to prepare an instructor to teach courses in each of the five core areas of Information Assurance, which are:

1. Principles of Information Assurance
2. Network Security
3. Enterprise Security Management
4. Secure Electronic Commerce
5. Digital Forensics

Limited openings are available for instructors from community colleges that are not part of CSEC.

More workshop dates are also listed on the CSEC events calendar at:
http://ociafe.ctln.org/calendar/

For more information please contact:
Robert Hamilton
405-743-5552
rhami@okcareertech.org

(4 days)

St. LouisMO63102



Welcome

St. Louis Aerial ViewThe 2010 PAS National Conference will be held in St. Louis, Missouri, "the gateway to the west," home of the Gateway Arch, and situated by the mighty Mississippi river.

The first thing you'll want to do to join us for this special celebration of the PAS 30th anniversary is make your hotel reservations. All information and a link to the reservations page is on "the hotel" page accessible from the menu on the left.

After you've made your reservations, check out some of the attractions you won't want to miss while visiting St. Louis. And regularly check the "latest news" page as that is where you will find all updates and vital information as it becomes available.

We're looking forward to a great conference and hope you plan to "ignite your future in agriculture!"

(3 days)

San FranciscoCA94108

INVENTING NEW SYSTEMS & NEW PARTNERSHIPS

California Community College Association for Occupational Education and CA Community College Chief Instructional Officers joint conference in San Francisco.
Do your people collectively groan when you tell them a survey is coming? Join us for a free webinar about survey development and implementation. We will review strategies to make surveying a quick and relatively painless task for you and your informants. We also will tour free survey hosting web sites and share ideas on how to increase response rates. You'll leave the webinar with a better understanding of how to:

* Identify your survey sample
* Choose appropriate questions
* Make use of free survey hosting web sites
* Obtain a sufficient response rate
* Increase the efficiency of the survey-taking experience

Surveys can be a simple and effective data collection tool - let us show you how.
GREEN TECHNOLOGY: STEM SOLUTIONS FOR 21st CENTURY CITIZENS
Program Excellence General Session
Featured Speaker: John Warner

Description: "Excellence" is a theme of this general session, designed to recognize outstanding technology education programs. The top teachers in the profession will be present to network, share successes, and have their program described. Our keynote speaker is John Warner, president and chief technology officer of the Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry. John's presentation will address the theme of the ITEA conference, which is "Green Technology: STEM Solutions for 21st Century Citizens."



Teacher Excellence General Session

Description: This session will be a part of a larger Teacher Excellence Awards Session in which technology teachers from every state will be honored for their outstanding achievements.
Ag Day 2010 in Celebration of American Agriculture

Join other industry leaders on March 18, 2010, for two great events to honor and celebrate just how AMAZING American agriculture really is!
Mix & Mingle Luncheon

11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
U.S. Capitol Visitors Center
Washington, DC

Complimentary admittance to luncheon. Register required.

National Ag Day Dinner & Cocktails

5:30 p.m.
USDA Whitten Building Patio
Washington, DC

Tickets: $100 per person, or $1,000 for a reserved table of 10
hosted by the Agriculture Council of America in recognition of National Ag Week

Invited Guest Speaker:

United States Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack
One hour webinar on Retention and Recruitment for sustaining programs.
Presenter Chris Semerjian
http://delmarcollege.na3.acrobat.com/ngtc/
Toll free number: 866.962.6635
This year's Metro North College Fair will take place at Middlesex Community College on March 19th. This hands-on, interactive program exposes high school juniors and seniors to the various technology program offerings at Middlesex and Northern Essex Community Colleges. Students also receive career, admissions and financial-aid orientation.

If you are a high school teacher interested in bringing your students to learn about IT careers and majors at Middlesex and Northern Essex Community Colleges, please email Jibril Solomon, Outreach Director at jsolomon@techboston.org.

(5 days)

San DiegoCA

OFC/NFOEC—The World’s Largest Optical Communications & Networking Event

OFC/NFOEC is the world’s leading international conference for optical communications and networking professionals. Attend OFC/NFOEC and be part of the event that brings together the people, products, and information that drive optical communications and networking.

It’s all here!

* Access/FTTx
* Carrier/Transport/Telecom
* Datacom
* Test and Measurement
* Green Technology
* Optical Grids
* And More!

No other week is as intense as the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC). For over 35 years people have been coming from all corners of the earth to meet and greet, teach and learn, make connections and move business forward for this one week each year.
See website for schedule and workshop descriptions.

(3 days)

Los AngelesCA90015

WESTEC: The game has changed.

WESTEC 2010 is bursting at the seams with loads of information to help you — the manufacturer — in the economic recovery.

WESTEC is featuring dynamic keynote speakers, such as Richard Aboulafia, VP at the Teal Group speaking about Aerospace Global Forecasting, Richard M. Scofield, Lt. General USAF (Ret.) talking about how to position your company to be part of future aerospace supply chains, and Matt Garran, Supply Chain Manager, AWEA presents on Wind Energy opportunities for manufacturers.

Along with the keynotes, you will also have the opportunity to attend FREE show floor presentations focusing on Lean & Green, Global Market – U.S. Tax Incentives and Health Insurance Programs for Machine Shops. If that isn't enough WESTEC is offering economical paid technical sessions in the areas that interest you most such as; Swiss Style Screw Machining, Machining of Exotic Metals, Milling, Drilling and Cutting of Advanced Carbon Fiber and/or Carbon Fiber Laminates and Additive Manufacturing.

Still looking for more...

Hundreds of new products are set to debut at WESTEC 2010 and you can find over 175 of them in our new online WESTEC New Product & Show Planner! These products will help you find solutions to run a leaner, more competitive operation. As you walk WESTEC's hall of exhibits, look for "New Product" symbol on the aisles identifying exhibitor's new products along with the industry they represent.

There's no denying it. Manufacturing is changing and in ways you probably never imagined: new economic forces, stiff competition advances in technology, demands to work lean and green, emerging industries, and global markets.

Get the inside track on running a manufacturing enterprise, buying machinery, and manufacturing leadership. Rounding out the week are complimentary sessions on becoming and staying a successful manufacturer, keynotes, and a panel discussion. If you want to be part of new supply chains, WESTEC should be your first stop.

The game is changing. Want to make sure your company not only grows, but evolves? Make sure you get to WESTEC.
This workshop will explore how a geospatial system can assist in making an informed decision through the use of geospatial information technology system. The concept of the workshop is how to visualize data that has a spatial orientation. The participants will learn how to take data that is contained within a spreadsheet and display it spatially. This will include displaying the data via address or position (latitude and longitude) as well as how to summarize data and display the summary information. The concepts geocoding and summation of data through the COUNTIF function of Excel will be done. Online basemaps will be utilized. No previous knowledge of GIS is required. Online video and documentation will be available to the participants for reference and continued study after the workshop.

Instructor: Vince DiNoto
Workshop will meet from 9:00 am - 11:00 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.

(3 days)

Lake CharlesLA

The College of Engineering and Engineering Technology at McNeese State University invites you to participate in the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Gulf Southwest Regional Conference. The conference will be held at L'Auberge du Lac Casino Resort in Lake Charles, LA. Engineering and technology faculty and students, ASEE members and non-members, as well as engineers working in industry with an interest in engineering education, are invited to present their work or simply attend the conference.
This presentation is aimed at providing insight and best practices to implement when recruiting students into STEM-related fields of study, specifically students from a wide breadth of academic disciplines into a one-semester nanotechnology Capstone Semester. A NACK Center staff member will discuss these strategies, as well as provide tips on how to promote existing programs to students. We will also share materials used in a NACK recruitment presentation, which is constantly updated, to introduce students to nanotechnology and the nano-scale, as well as highlight current and innovative research that is changing their lives on a daily basis. This is a great way to learn how to keep your content “fresh” and to truly connect with your current and potential students who are pursuing STEM-related fields of study.

In just one year’s time, Jamie Houseknecht, who is serving as the NACK College Recruitment Coordinator, has increased enrollment by over 25% within the NMT Capstone Semester. He recruits students from all of the 33 partner institutions across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which are at both the associate and baccalaureate degree granting level. By connecting with students via interactive discussion, open forum-style events, following up with interested parties, and relating to them on a personal level, Jamie and the NACK National ATE Center have witnessed the highest average enrollment over three semesters since the NMT Capstone Semester began in 1999.
This event will:

*Update the ACE Center Leadership with specific focus on the ACE Strategic Plan and the implications to the Community

*White Space for members to speak to other community members about topics of mutual interest

*Voices from the Field – How to Renew and Refresh – Rose Asera, Senior Scholar for the Carnegie Foundation

This event is open to anyone in ACE and has a ten dollar fee which is payable at the session.

(9 days)

NanoDays is our nationwide festival of educational programs about nanoscale science and engineering and its potential impact on the future. NanoDays events are organized by participants in the Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network (NISE Net), and take place at over 200 science museums, research centers, and universities across the country from Maine to Hawaii.

What Can YOU Do?

NanoDays activities often bring university researchers together with science museum educators, creating unique learning experiences. NanoDays engages people of all ages in a miniscule world where materials have special properties and new technologies have spectacular promise.
Many NanoDays celebrations will combine simple hands-on activities for young people with events exploring current research for adults. One popular activity involves visitors working together to build a giant balloon model of a carbon nanotube. (Real carbon nanotubes, which are 1/50,000th of the width of a human hair, have extraordinary strength and unusual electrical properties that make them useful in electronics and materials science.

Other NanoDays activities demonstrate different, unexpected properties of materials at the nanoscale -- sand that won’t get wet even under water, water that won’t spill from a teacup, and colors that depend upon particle size.

Some NanoDays participants host public forums, discussions about the risks and benefits of particular appllications of nanotechnology. Many participating universities host public tours of their laboratories that work with nanoscale science and technology.

(4 days)

BaltimoreMD

Innovations 2010 is the premier event for professionals dedicated to improving organizational teaching and learning, and discovering new approaches for enhancing the community college experience. The conference provides a tremendous forum for collaboration among academic experts and leading community college professionals, while granting participants exclusive access to the most inventive and thought-provoking programs from around the world.